# Registration Service Act 1953, Section 5: Districts and sub-districts.


(1) For the purposes of the Registration Acts, in every non-metropolitan county and metropolitan district there shall be one or more districts and in every district there shall be one or more sub-districts.
(2) Without prejudice to any provision of the local scheme as to additional officers, for each district there shall be a superintendent registrar of births, deaths and marriages, and for each sub-district there shall be a registrar of births and deaths, and any registrar of births and deaths upon whom the functions of a registrar of marriages are conferred by the local scheme shall also be deemed to be a registrar of marriages within the district for the purposes of the Marriage Act 1949.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/1-2/37/section/5 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/registration-service-act-1953/section-5
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