Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Scotland) Act 1965
Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Scotland) Act 1965 (1965 c. 49)
- Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Scotland) Act 1965 (1965 c. 49)
- Part I General Organisation of Registration Service
- Central Organisation
- 1 The Registrar General.
- 2 Registrar General’s staff.
- 3 General Register Office.
- 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
- Local Organisation
- 5 Registration districts and local registration authorities
- 6 Alteration of registration districts.
- 7 Senior and district registrars and other staff.
- 8 Registration offices.
- 9 Area repositories.
- 10 Delivery up of books etc. on ceasing to hold office.
- 11 General provision as to fees.
- 12 Fees to be accounted for.
- Part II Registration of Births
- 13 Particulars of births to be registered.
- 14 Duty to give information of particulars of birth.
- 14A Directions about giving information of particulars of birth
- 15 Duty to give information concerning finding of infant children.
- 16 Registrar’s power to require information concerning birth to be given.
- 16A Provision of birth particulars to Registrar General
- 16B Registration of births
- 17 Registration after expiration of three months from date of birth or finding.
- 18 Births of children born out of wedlock.
- 18ZA Registration of father or second female parent by virtue of certain provisions of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008
- 18A Decrees of parentage and non-parentage.
- 18B Births of children where second female parent by virtue of section 43 of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008
- 19 Free abbreviated certificate of birth.
- 20 Re-registration in certain cases.
- 21 Still-births.
- 21A Meaning of birth registration form
- Part III Registration of Deaths
- 22 Particulars of deaths to be registered.
- 23 Duty to give information of particulars of death.
- 23A Directions about giving information of particulars of death
- 24 Certificate of cause of death.
- 24A Duty to refer certain certificates of cause of death for review
- 24B Request for review not to stay registration
- 25 Registrar’s power to require information concerning death to be given.
- 25A Provision of death particulars to Registrar General
- 25B Registration of deaths
- 26 Registration after expiration of three months from date of death or finding of body.
- 27 Free certificate of registration of death.
- 27A Offence of disposal of body without authorisation
- 28 Intimation of certain deaths by registrar to Procurator-Fiscal and vice-versa.
- 28ZA Meaning of death registration form
- 28A Registration of divorces and declarators of nullity of marriage.
- 28B . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
- 29—31. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
- Part V General
- Registers
- 32 Provision of registers etc. by Registrar General.
- 33 Duplicate and copy registers.
- 34 Examination and transmission of registers
- 35 Reproduction of registers.
- 36 Replacement of lost registers etc.
- Searches and Extracts, etc.
- 37 Issuing of extracts of entries in current registers
- 38 Search of indexes kept by Registrar General.
- 39A Notice of registration events to third parties
- 39B Application by third party for notification of death
- 39C Provision of information to district registrars
- 39D Searching of indexes and issuing of extracts by district registrars
- 39E Abbreviated extracts
- 41 Form and authentication of registration information
- 41A Admissibility of registration information as evidence
- Corrections and Changes of Name or Surname
- 42 Correction of errors in registers.
- 43 Recording of baptismal name or change of name or surname.
- 44 Register of Corrections Etc.
- Parochial Registers
- 45 Correction of entries in parochial registers.
- 46 Parochial registers to be transmitted to Registrar General.
- 47 Search of parochial registers etc., and provision of extracts therefrom.
- Miscellaneous
- 48 Decrees of court altering status.
- 49 Signing by mark by persons unable to write.
- 50 Events occurring in institutions.
- 51 Returns to be made by registrar.
- 52 Sending of documents by post.
- 53 Offences.
- 54 Regulations.
- 54A Form, and manner of attestation, of documents
- 55 Expenses.
- 56 Interpretation.
- 57 Savings etc.
- 58 Consequential amendments and repeals.
- 59 Short title, extent and commence-ment.
- SCHEDULES
- SCHEDULE 1 Consequential Amendments of other Enactments
- The Marriage Notice (Scotland) Act 1878
- The Marriage (Scotland) Act 1939
- The Family Allowances Act 1945
- The National Insurance Act 1946
- The Adoption Act 1958
- The Adoption Act 1964
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