{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-registration-service-order-1973/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-registration-service-order-1973/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1973/1654",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government (Registration Service) Order 1973",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-registration-service-order-1973",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "This Order provides for a reorganisation of local registration services in England and Wales (excluding Greater London and the Isles of Scilly) in consequence of the reorganisation of local government from 1st April 1974.\nSchemes will be made by the councils of non-metropolitan counties and metropolitan districts establishing registration districts and sub-districts, determining the location of registration offices and the number of superintendent registrars, registrars of births and deaths and other officers required for the purpose of the Registration Acts.\nMost registration officers are transferred by the Order on 1st April 1974, to posts allocated to them by the new councils. Officers suffering loss of employment or loss or diminution of emoluments will be enabled to claim compensation by Regulations to be made by the Secretary of State for the Environment under section 259 of the Local Government Act 1972.\nThe Order also contains transitional provisions with regard to notices and certificates under the Marriage Act 1949 and marriages to be solemnised before registration officers, and with regard to the registration of births and deaths.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1973/1654/note",
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  "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."
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