{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-service-act-1953/section-19B",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-service-act-1953/section-19B.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Eliz2/1-2/37",
  "legislation_title": "Registration Service Act 1953",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-service-act-1953",
  "path": "section/19B",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "19B",
  "heading": "Fees ...",
  "text": "(1) The Minister may by regulations provide for fees to be payable to the Registrar General in respect of the provision by the Registrar General to any persons of copies or other records of any information held by the Registrar General.\n(1A) The Minister may by regulations provide for fees to be payable to a civil registration official in respect of the disclosure by the official of information under section 19AA.\n(2) Regulations under this section may—\n(a) specify the amount of any fee payable under the regulations, or\n(b) set out how such a fee is to be determined.\n(3) Regulations under this section may provide for the reduction, waiver or refund of part or all of a fee whether by conferring a discretion or otherwise.\n(4) Regulations under this section must be made by statutory instrument.\n(5) Regulations under this section may—\n(a) make different provision for different cases;\n(b) provide for exemptions from any of the provisions of the regulations;\n(c) contain such consequential, incidental, supplemental and transitional provision as the Minister considers appropriate.\n(6) A statutory instrument containing regulations under this section is subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 19B inserted (12.7.2016) by Immigration Act 2016 (c. 19), s. 94(1), Sch. 15 para. 3; S.I. 2016/603, reg. 3(w)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 19B(1A) inserted (1.5.2018 except for the purposes of N.I.) by Digital Economy Act 2017 (c. 30), ss. 46(3)(a), 118(4)(6); S.I. 2018/382, reg. 3(k)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 19B(2)(3) substituted (1.5.2018 except for the purposes of N.I.) by Digital Economy Act 2017 (c. 30), ss. 46(3)(b), 118(4)(6); S.I. 2018/382, reg. 3(k)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 19B heading omitted (1.5.2018 except for the purposes of N.I.) by virtue of Digital Economy Act 2017 (c. 30), ss. 46(3)(c), 118(4)(6); S.I. 2018/382, reg. 3(k)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/1-2/37/section/19B",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:16:38.785066+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."
}