Article 5 Registration districts and registration authorities

(1)

Each local government district shall be a registration district for the purposes of the registration of births and deaths and the district council shall be the local registration authority for those purposes.

(2)

A district council shall, in the exercise of the functions conferred on it as a local registration authority,—

(a)

act as agent for the Department; and

(b)

act in accordance with such directions as the Department may give to the council;

and any expenditure to be incurred in the exercise of those functions shall be subject to the approval of the Registrar General.

Notes on the whole Order

Textual amendments

F1: functions transf. SR 1993/494