{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-births-deaths-and-marriages-scotland-act-1965/section-54",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-births-deaths-and-marriages-scotland-act-1965/section-54.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/54",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "54",
  "heading": "Regulations.",
  "text": "(1) The Registrar General may, with the approval of the Secretary of State, by statutory instrument make regulations—\n(a) prescribing the circumstances, of hardship or otherwise, in which fees prescribed under this Act may be remitted by the Registrar General;\n(b) prescribing anything which by this Act is required to be prescribed;\n(c) . . .\n(d) . . .\n(1A) Regulations under subsection (1) may make different provision for different cases or circumstances.\n(2) Any statutory instrument containing regulations . . .\n(a) prescribing fees for the purposes of this Act\n(b) prescribing cases or classes of case for the purpose of section 20(1A)(b) of this Act,\nshall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.\n(3) The Statutory Instruments Act 1946 shall apply to a statutory instrument containing regulations made under this section as if the regulations had been made by a Minister of the Crown.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 54(1)(c) repealed by Marriage (Scotland) Act 1977 (c. 15), Sch. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 54(1)(d) repealed by Children Act 1975 (c. 72), Sch. 4 Pt III"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 54(1A) inserted (1.9.2014) by Marriage and Civil Partnership (Scotland) Act 2014 (asp 5), ss. 33, 36; S.S.I. 2014/212, art. 2, Sch. (as amended (1.9.2014) by S.S.I. 2014/218, art. 2(3), Sch.)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 54(1A) substituted (25.1.2023) by Coronavirus (Recovery and Reform) (Scotland) Act 2022 (asp 8), ss. 28(2), 59(4)(5); S.S.I. 2023/3, reg. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1981 (c. 19), Sch. I Pt. XII"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in s. 54(2) renumbered as s. 54(2)(a) (1.10.2006) by Local Electoral Administration and Registration Services (Scotland) Act 2006 (asp 14), ss. 41(3)(a), 63(2); S.S.I. 2006/469, art. 2, Sch. 1 (with art. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "S. 54(2)(b) inserted (1.10.2006) by Local Electoral Administration and Registration Services (Scotland) Act 2006 (asp 14), ss. 41(3)(b), 63(2); S.S.I. 2006/469, art. 2, Sch. 1 (with art. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1946. c. 36."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 54 extended (1.7.1992) by Social Security Administration Act 1992 (c. 5), ss.124, 186, 192(4), Sch. 10 para. 3(1)."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 54 extended by Social Security Act 1975 (c. 14), s. 160(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "P",
      "label": "P1",
      "text": "S. 54: for previous exercises of power see Index to Government Orders"
    },
    {
      "type": "P",
      "label": "P2",
      "text": "S. 54(1): s. 54(1) (with ss. 28A(4), 37(2)(3), 38(2)(3), 40(1), 43(8), 47 and 56) power exercised by S.I.1991/2817."
    },
    {
      "type": "P",
      "label": "P3",
      "text": "S. 54(1)(b): s. 42(2)(with s. 54(1)(b)) power exercised by S.I. 1991/1260"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1965/49/section/54",
    "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."
}