# The Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Fees) (Amendment) Order 2000

S.I. 2000/3165 · made 29 November 2000

This Order amends the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Fees) Order 1999 (“the principal Order”) which specifies the fees payable under the Acts relating to the registration of births, deaths and marriages and associated matters from 1st April 2000.

Made under: Public Expenditure and Receipts Act 1968 (Section 5, Schedule 3 paragraph 1, Schedule 3 paragraph 2)

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## Introductory text

REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS, DEATHS,MARRIAGES, ETC.
ENGLAND AND WALES
Made 29th November 2000
Laid before Parliament 30th November 2000
Coming into force 1st January 2001
The Chancellor of the Exchequer, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 5(1) and (2) of, and paragraphs 1 and 2 of Schedule 3 to, the Public Expenditure and Receipts Act 1968 and now vested in him and section 31(5F) of the Marriage Act 1949 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order—

## 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation

(1) This Order may be cited as the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Fees) (Amendment) Order 2000 and shall come into force on 1st January 2001.
(2) In this Order—
(a) “the principal Order” means the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Fees) Order 1999; and
(b) a reference to a numbered column is to the column in the Schedule to the principal Order bearing that number.

## 2 Amendment of the principal Order

The Schedule to the principal Order is amended as follows—
(a) for the heading to column (4) (fee as from 1st April 2000) there shall be substituted “Fee payable”;
(b) in the entry made in respect of the Marriage Act 1949, section 27(6) (entry in marriage notice book) in column (4) for the sum “£25.00” there shall be substituted the sum “£30.00”; and
(c) after the entry made in respect of the Marriage Act 1949, section 27(7) (attendance of superintendent registrar other than at his office etc.), there shall be inserted—
(i) in column (2) “Section 31(5F)”; and
(ii) in relation to it in column (3) “Application to reduce the 15 day period” and in column (4) the sum “£28.00”.

## Signature

Signed by authority of the Chancellor of the Exchequer
Melanie Johnson
Economic Secretary to the Treasury
29th November 2000

## Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order amends the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Fees) Order 1999 (“the principal Order”) which specifies the fees payable under the Acts relating to the registration of births, deaths and marriages and associated matters from 1st April 2000.
Article 2(a) changes the heading to column (4) of the Schedule to the principal Order from “fee as from 1st April 2000” to “fee payable”.
Article 2(b) increases from £25.00 to £30.00 the sum payable under section 27(6) of the Marriage Act 1949 for an entry made in the marriage notice book.
Article 2(c) specifies the fee payable under section 31(5F) of the Marriage Act where an application is made by a party to the marriage to reduce the 15 day period mentioned in section 31(1) and (2) of that Act. The fee payable for such an application is £28.00.

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