Section 6 Registers deemed in legal custody, and shall be receivable in evidence.C1

All registers and records deposited in the general register office by virtue of this Act, except the registers and records of baptisms and marriages at the Fleet and King’s Bench prisons, at May Fair, at the Mint in Southwark, and eleswhere, which were deposited in the registry of the bishop of London in the year One Thousand eight hundred and twenty-one, as herein-after mentioned, shall be deemed to be in legal custody, and shall be receivable in evidence in all courts of justice, subject to the provisions herein-after contained; and the registrar general shall produce or cause to be produced any such register or record, on subpoena or order of any competent court or tribunal, and on payment of a reasonable sum, to be taxed as the court shall direct, and to be paid to the registrar general, on account of the loss of time of the officer by whom such register or record shall be produced, and to enable the registrar general to defray the travelling and other expences of such officer.