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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-births-deaths-and-marriages-fees-order-1996/schedule",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/3152",
  "legislation_title": "The Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Fees) Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-births-deaths-and-marriages-fees-order-1996",
  "path": "schedule",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "FEES PAYABLE FROM 1ST APRIL 1997",
  "text": "(1)\n(2)\n(3)\n(4)\n(5)\nEnactment specifying fees\nMatter or case for which fee is payable\nFee as from 1st April 1997\nOld fee (where different)\n1855 c. 81\nPlaces of Worship Registration Act 1855\nSection 5\nCertification of place of meeting for religious worship\n£25.00\n£17.00\n1887 c. 40\nSavings Banks Act 1887\nSection 10\nCertificate of birth, death or marriage for purposes of certain Acts\n£2.50\n£2.00\n1949 c. 76\nMarriage Act 1949\nSection 27(6)\nEntry in marriage notice book\n£20.00\n£19.00\nSection 27(7)\nAttendance of superintendent registrar other than at his office for purpose of being given notice of marriage of house-bound or detained person\n£37.00\nSection 32(5)\nLicence for marriage\n£45.00\nSection 41(6)\nRegistration of buildings for solemnization of marriages\n£110.00\n£93.00\nSection 51(1)\nFee of registrar for attending marriage—\n(i) at register office\n£27.00\n£25.00\n(ii) at registered building or at the place where a house-bound or detained person usually resides\n£35.00\nSection 51(2)\nFee of superintendent registrar attending marriage at the place where a house-bound or detained person usually resides\n£37.00\nSection 57(4)\nSum paid to incumbent, etc. for every entry contained in quarterly certified copies of entries of marriage\n£2.00\n£1.80\nSection 63(1)(b)\nCertified copy of entry issued under that subsection—\n(i) when application is made at the time of registering or to a registrar\n£3.00\n£2.50\n(ii) in any other case\n£6.00\n£5.50\nSection 64(2)(a)\nGeneral search of indexes of register books kept by superintendent registrars\n£18.00\n£17.00\nSection 64(2)(c)\nCertified copy of entry issued under that subsection\n£6.00\n£5.50\nSection 65(2)(c)\nCertified copy of entry, following a search of indexes kept at General Register Office\n£6.00\n1953 c. 20\nBirths and Deaths Registration Act 1953\nSection 13(2)\nIssue of certificate of baptism\n£1.00\nSection 30(2)(c)\nCertified copy of entry, following search of indexes kept at General Register Office\n£6.00\nSection 31(2)(a)\nGeneral search of indexes kept by superintendent registrars\n£18.00\n£17.00\nSection 31(2)(c)\nCertified copy of entry issued under that subsection\n£6.00\n£5.50\nSection 32(c)\nCertified copy of entry in registers kept by registrars\n£3.00\n£2.50\nSection 33(1)\n(i) A short certificate of birth obtained at the time of registration, or if more than one such certificate is obtained, the first of these\nNIL\n(ii) Any other short certificate of birth obtained from a registrar\n£3.00\n£2.00\n(iii) A short certificate of birth obtained from a suprintendent registrar\n£4.00\n£3.00\n(iv) A short certificate of birth obtained from the Registrar General where that certificate is compiled from a certified copy of an entry in the registers of live-births\n£5.00\n£4.00\n(v) A short certificate of birth obtained from the Registrar General where that certificate is compiled from any other records and registers in the custody of the Registrar General\n£4.00\n1961 c. 34\nFactories Act 1961\nSection 178(1)\nExtract of entry in birth register for purposes of that Act\n£2.50\n£2.00\n1992 c. 5\nSocial Security Administration Act 1992\nSection 124(3)\nCertificate of birth, death or marriage for purposes of certain Acts\n£2.50\n£2.00\n1996 c. 56\nEducation Act 1996\nSection 564(1)\nCopy of entry in birth register for purposes of certain Acts\n£2.50\n£2.00",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 10 was amended by section 94 of and Part III of Schedule 6 to the Post Office Act 1969 (c. 48) and by sections 4(3) and 7(3) of and Schedule 4 to the Trustee Savings Banks Act 1985 (c. 58) and is applied by regulation 26 of the Savings Certificates Regulations 1991 (S.I. 1991/1031) and by regulation 25 of the Premium Savings Bonds Regulations 1972 (S.I. 1972/765)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 27(7) was inserted by section 1(7) of and paragraph 5(c) of Schedule 1 to the Marriage Act 1983."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Section 32(5) was amended by article 4(2) of the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Fees) Order 1968 (S.I. 1968/1242)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Section 41(1) and (7) was amended as to the meaning of “building” by section 1(1) of the Marriage (Registration of Buildings) Act 1990 (c. 33)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "Section 51(1) was so numbered by section 1(7) of and paragraph 15 of Schedule 1 to the Marriage Act 1983."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "Section 51(2) was inserted by section 1(7) of and paragraph 15 of Schedule 1 to the Marriage Act 1983."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f7",
      "text": "Section 57(4) was amended by section 251 of and paragraph 40 of Schedule 29 to the Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f8",
      "text": "See section 1(1) of the Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f9",
      "text": "Subsection (1), to which section 124(3) refers, was amended by section 41(4) of and paragraph 59 of Schedule 2 to the Jobseekers Act 1995 (c. 18)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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