{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-1944-repealed-1111996/section-94",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo6/7-8/31",
  "legislation_title": "Education Act 1944 (repealed 1.11.1996)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-1944-repealed-1111996",
  "path": "section/94",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "94",
  "heading": "Certificates of birth and registrars’ returns.",
  "text": "(1) Where the age of any person is required to be proved for the purposes of this Act or of any enactment relating to the employment of children or young persons, the registrar having the custody of the register of births and deaths containing the entry relating to the birth of that person shall, upon being presented by any person with a written requisition in such form and containing such particulars as may be determined by regulations made by the the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and upon payment of a fee of £2.00, supply that person with a copy of the entry certified under his hand.\nEvery registrar shall, upon being requested so to do, supply free of charge a form of requisition for the purposes of this subsection.\n(2) Every registrar shall supply to a local education authority such particulars of the entries contained in any register of births and deaths in his custody, and in such form, as, subject to any regulations made by the the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the authority may from time to time require; . . .\n(3) In this section, the expression “register of births and deaths” means a register of births and deaths kept in pursuance of the Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953 and the Registration Service Act 1953, and the expression “registrar” includes a registrar of births and deaths and a superintendent registrar.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 94(1)(2) substituted (1.4.1996) by S.I. 1996/273, art. 5(1), Sch. 2 para.8."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Fee in s. 94(1) substituted: (1.4.1993) by virtue of S.I. 1992/2982, art. 2, Sch. (which S.I. was revoked (1.4.1994) by S.I. 1993/3116, art. 3); (1.4.1994) by virtue of S.I. 1993/3116, art. 2, Sch. (which S.I. was revoked (1.4.1995) by S.I. 1994/3257, art. 4); (1.2.1995) by virtue of S.I. 1994/3257, art. 2, Sch. (which S.I. was revoked (1.4.1996) by S.I. 1995/3162, art. 3); (1.4.1996) by virtue of S.I. 1995/3162, art. 2,Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words repealed by S.I. 1968/1242, Sch. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of Interpretation Act 1889 (c. 63), s. 38(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1953 c. 20."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1953 c. 37."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Functions of the Secretary of State in s. 94 transferred to the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1.4.1996) by S.I. 1996/273, art. 3(1), Sch. 1 para.6."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Power to amend s. 94 conferred by Public Expenditure and Receipts Act 1968 (c. 14), s. 5(1), Sch. 3 para. 1(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/7-8/31/section/94",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:26:41.167119+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."
}