# Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953, Section 42: Savings, etc.

Extent: E+W

(1) Any registration effected, certificate issued, notice or information given, order, regulations or return made or other thing done under any enactment repealed by this Act shall, if in force at the commencement of this Act, continue in force, and have effect as if effected, issued, given, made or done under the corresponding provision of this Act.
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(4) Any document referring to an enactment repealed by this Act shall unless the contrary intention appears to be construed as referring to the corresponding provision of this Act.
(5) Nothing in this Act shall affect any provision of the Population (Statistics) Act 1938, requiring particulars to be furnished for the purposes of that Act.
(6) Nothing in this Act shall affect the registration of baptisms or burials, or the right of any officiating minister to receive any fees now usually paid for the performance or registration of any baptism or burial.
(7) Nothing in the foregoing provisions of this section shall be taken as prejudicing the operation of sections 16(1) and 17(2)(a) of the Interpretation Act 1978 (which relate to the effect of repeals).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/1-2/20/section/42 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/births-and-deaths-registration-act-1953/section-42
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