{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/births-deaths-and-marriages-records-and-fees-amendment-regulations-2020/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/births-deaths-and-marriages-records-and-fees-amendment-regulations-2020/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2020/1093",
  "legislation_title": "The Births, Deaths and Marriages (Records and Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/births-deaths-and-marriages-records-and-fees-amendment-regulations-2020",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Amendments to the Registration of Births, Deaths, Marriages and Civil Partnerships (Fees) Regulations 2016",
  "text": "(1) The Registration of Births, Deaths, Marriages and Civil Partnerships (Fees) Regulations 2016 are amended as follows.\n(2) In regulation 2, after the definition of “the 1953 Act” insert—\n““online view service” means a service provided via the website for the General Register Office which allows a person to—\n(a) search via that website for an entry in the Registrar General’s certified copies of entries, and\n(b) if the search locates the entry, submit a request via that website to view a record of information contained in that entry in electronic format;”.\n(3) In Schedule 1 (fees payable), in the table—\n(a) for row 15 substitute—\n“\n15\nMarriage Act 1949 section 64(2)\n(a) Standard service for certified copy of an entry from the register kept by the superintendent registrar\n£11.00\nThe superintendent registrar\n(b) Priority service for certified copy of an entry from the register kept by the superintendent registrar\n£35.00\nThe superintendent registrar\n”\n(b) in row 51—\n(i) in column 2 (services or matters for which fee is payable)—\n(aa) for “portable document” (in each place it appears) substitute “electronic”;\n(bb) for “conversion of civil partnerships register” (in each place it appears) substitute “conversion register”;\n(cc) after (a)(ii) insert—\n“(iii) a copy of a record, through the online view service, of the information contained in the Registrar General’s certified copies of entries in the birth register, the death register and the marriage register.”;\n(ii) in column 3 (amount of fee), as a corresponding entry to (a)(iii) in column 2 (services or matters for which fee is payable), insert “£2.50”.\n(iii) in column 4 (person to whom fee is payable), as a corresponding entry to (a)(iii) in column 2 (services or matters for which fee is payable), insert “The Registrar General”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2016/911, amended by S.I. 2017/947, 2018/1268."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/1093/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:24:42.614362+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."
}