UK Act of Parliament
1965
United Kingdom
Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Scotland) Act 1965
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1 compliance obligation
What this Act requires
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Schedules
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Certificate of cause of death.
- Provide certificate of cause of death within 7 days
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The Registrar General.
Registrar General’s staff.
General Register Office.
Salaries, receipts and expenses.
Registration districts and local registration authorities
Alteration of registration districts.
Senior and district registrars and other staff.
Registration offices.
Area repositories.
Delivery up of books
General provision as to fees.
Fees to be accounted for.
Particulars of births to be registered.
Duty to give information of particulars of birth.
Directions about giving information of particulars of birth
Duty to give information concerning finding of infant children.
Registrar’s power to require information concerning birth to be given.
Provision of birth particulars to Registrar General
Registration of births
Registration after expiration of three months from date of birth or finding.
Births of children born out of wedlock.
Decrees of parentage and non-parentage.
Births of children where second female parent by virtue of section 43 of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008
Registration of father or second female parent by virtue of certain provisions of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008
Free abbreviated certificate of birth.
Re-registration in certain cases.
Still-births.
Meaning of birth registration form
Particulars of deaths to be registered.
Duty to give information of particulars of death.
Directions about giving information of particulars of death
Duty to refer certain certificates of cause of death for review
Request for review not to stay registration
Registrar’s power to require information concerning death to be given.
Provision of death particulars to Registrar General
Registration of deaths
Registration after expiration of three months from date of death or finding of body.
Free certificate of registration of death.
Offence of disposal of body without authorisation
Intimation of certain deaths by registrar to Procurator-Fiscal and vice-versa.
Registration of divorces and declarators of nullity of marriage.
Intimation of death to Community Charges Registration Officer.
Meaning of death registration form
Provision of registers etc. by Registrar General.
Duplicate and copy registers.
Examination and transmission of registers
Reproduction of registers.
Replacement of lost registers etc.
Issuing of extracts of entries in current registers
Search of indexes kept by Registrar General.
Notice of registration events to third parties
Application by third party for notification of death
Provision of information to district registrars
Searching of indexes and issuing of extracts by district registrars
Abbreviated extracts
Form and authentication of registration information
Admissibility of registration information as evidence
Correction of errors in registers.
Recording of baptismal name or change of name or surname.
Register of Corrections Etc.
Correction of entries in parochial registers.
Parochial registers to be transmitted to Registrar General.
Search of parochial registers etc., and provision of extracts therefrom.
Decrees of court altering status.
Signing by mark by persons unable to write.
Events occurring in institutions.
Returns to be made by registrar.
Sending of documents by post.
Offences.
Regulations.
Form, and manner of attestation, of documents
Expenses.
Interpretation.
Savings etc.
Consequential amendments and repeals.
Short title, extent and commence-ment.
General Modification
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