{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/baptismal-registers-measure-1961-1961-no-2/section-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/baptismal-registers-measure-1961-1961-no-2/section-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukcm/Eliz2/9-10/2",
  "legislation_title": "Baptismal Registers Measure 1961 1961 No 2",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/baptismal-registers-measure-1961-1961-no-2",
  "path": "section/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Short certificates of baptism.",
  "text": "(1) A custodian of registers of baptisms shall, in any case in which before the passing of this Measure he would have given a certificate of the baptism of any person compiled from the registers in his custody, give, at the request of the person paying the fee for the certificate, a short certificate of baptism in the form set out in Part II of the Schedule to this Measure, or in a form substantially to the like effect, and shall complete the certificate with the particulars set forth in the said Part of the Schedule.\n(2) A short certificate of baptism given under this section shall be valid for all purposes for which a certificate of the baptism of any person compiled from a register of baptisms would have been valid before the passing of this Measure and, without derogation from the generality of the foregoing, all such short certificates which purport to be signed by the custodian of the register of baptisms from which the certificate is compiled shall be received as evidence of the baptism to which the certificate relates, without any further or other proof of such entry.\n(3) The fee payable to the custodian giving a short certificate of baptism under this section shall be such sum as may be fixed by such persons or authorities as may from time to time have power to fix fees for searches of registers of baptisms, and until such fee is fixed a sum of one shilling and sixpence.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukcm/Eliz2/9-10/2/section/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:23:41.762728+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}