Schedule 2 Provisions of the Act coming into force on 1st January 2007 (insofar as not already in force)

Column 1 – Provisions	Column 2 – purpose
Section 37 (registration districts and authorities)
Section 38 (registration offices: opening times)
Section 39(1)	For the purpose of the amendments in section 39(2), (3)(c), (4), (5), (7) and (8).
Section 39(2), (3)(c), (4), (5), (7) and (8) (registration of births)
Section 40 (registration of still-births)
Section 41 (re-registration)
Section 42(1)	For the purpose of the amendments in section 42(2), (3)(a)(iii) and (iv) and (c), (4), (5), (7) and (8).
Section 42(2), (3)(a)(iii) and (iv) and (c), (4), (5), (7) and (8) (registration of deaths)
Section 44(1)	For the purpose of the amendments in section 44 commenced by this Schedule.
Section 44(2), (7) and (8) (indexing of registers and provision of registration information)
Section 44(5) (notice of registration events, provision and sale of information for district registrars, abbreviated extracts)	For the purpose of substituting sections 39B, 39C, 39D and 39E of the 1965 Act^f1 for sections 39 and 40 of that Act.
Section 44(6) (form, authentication and admissibility of registration information)
Section 46 (recording change of name or surname)
Section 47 (other amendments to the 1965 Act)
Section 48 (marriages at sea)
Section 49 (marriage procedure: miscellaneous amendments)
Section 50 (marriage procedure: electronic communications)
Section 51 (civil partnership procedure: registrations at sea)
Section 52(1)	For the purpose of the amendments in section 52 commenced by this Schedule.
Section 52(2)(a) to (c) and (4) (civil partnership procedure: miscellaneous amendments)
Section 52(6)	For the purpose of substituting section 98(1) of the 2004 Act for section 98 of that Act^f2.
Section 59 (minor and consequential amendments)

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: The Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Scotland) Act 1965 (c. 49). There is a definition of “the 1965 Act” in section 60(1) of the Local Electoral Administration and Registration Services (Scotland) Act 2006 (asp 14) (“the 2006 Act”).
f2: The Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c. 33). There is a definition of “the 2004 Act” in section 60(1) of the 2006 Act.