{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-service-act-1953/section-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-service-act-1953/section-6.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Eliz2/1-2/37",
  "legislation_title": "Registration Service Act 1953",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-service-act-1953",
  "path": "section/6",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Superintendent registrars and registrars of births and deaths.",
  "text": "(1) Every superintendent registrar and every registrar of births and deaths shall be appointed by the council of the non-metropolitan county or metropolitan district in which his district or sub-district is situated.\n...\n(2) No person shall be appointed as superintendent registrar or as registrar of births and deaths unless he is qualified in accordance with the prescribed conditions.\n(3) Every superintendent registrar and every registrar of births and deaths shall be an officer of the council of the non-metropolitan county or metropolitan district in which his district or sub-district is situated ... .\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 6(1) proviso repealed (1.12.2007) by Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007 (c. 18), ss. 70(2)(a), 74(1), Sch. 4 Pt. 2; S.I. 2007/3388, art. 2(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 6(3) substituted (1.12.2007) by Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007 (c. 18), ss. 70(2)(b)(i), 74(1); S.I. 2007/3388, art. 2(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words substituted by Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70), Sch. 29 para. 41(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 6(3) repealed (1.12.2007) by Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007 (c. 18), ss. 70(2)(b)(ii), 74(1), Sch. 4 Pt. 2; S.I. 2007/3388, art. 2(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "S. 6(4) repealed (1.12.2007) by Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007 (c. 18), ss. 70(2)(c), 74(1), Sch. 4 Pt. 2; S.I. 2007/3388, art. 2(i)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/1-2/37/section/6",
    "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."
}