{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-births-deaths-and-marriages-scotland-act-1965/section-37",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-births-deaths-and-marriages-scotland-act-1965/section-37.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1965/49",
  "legislation_title": "Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Scotland) Act 1965",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-births-deaths-and-marriages-scotland-act-1965",
  "path": "section/37",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "37",
  "heading": "Issuing of extracts of entries in current registers",
  "text": "(1) Subject to subsection (2) below, where a person pays such fee as may be prescribed, the district registrar for a registration district shall, if the part of the registration office concerned is open for the purpose, issue to the person an extract of an entry in the register of births, still-births, deaths or marriages kept by the registrar.\n(2) An extract from the register of still-births may be issued only with the consent of the Registrar General in the particular case.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 37 substituted (1.10.2006) by Local Electoral Administration and Registration Services (Scotland) Act 2006 (asp 14), ss. 44(3), 63(2); S.S.I. 2006/469, art. 2, Sch. 1 (with art. 4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1965/49/section/37",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:57:33.835387+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}