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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-services-attestation-and-authentication-scotland-regulations-2006/introduction",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2006/597",
  "legislation_title": "The Registration Services (Attestation and Authentication) (Scotland) Regulations 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-services-attestation-and-authentication-scotland-regulations-2006",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS, DEATHS, MARRIAGES, ETC.\nMARRIAGE\nMade 12th December 2006\nComing into force 1st January 2007\nThe Registrar General, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 15(1) and (2), 16(1)(c), 18(1)(a), 21(2)(a), 24, 25(1)(c), 41, 54(1)(b) and 54A of the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Scotland) Act 1965, sections 3(3A), 5(1) and 24A(2) of the Marriage (Scotland) Act 1977 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, and with the approval of the Scottish Ministers in accordance with section 54(1) of the 1965 Act and section 25(1) of the 1977 Act, makes the following Regulations:",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1965 c. 49 (“the 1965 Act”). Section 18(1) was substituted by the Law Reform (Parent and Child) (Scotland) Act 1986 (c. 9), Schedule 1, paragraph 8(2). Section 21(2)(a) was amended by the Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors Act 1979 (c. 36), section 24(2), Schedule 7, paragraph 12. Section 54(1) was amended by the Children Act 1975 (c. 72), Schedule 4, Part III and the Marriage (Scotland) Act 1977 (c. 15), Schedule 3. The powers to prescribe means of attestation and authentication by which these Regulations are made were inserted by the Local Electoral Administration and Registration Services (Scotland) Act 2006 (asp 14) (“the 2006 Act”), sections 39(4)(a)(iii) and (b)(i), (5)(a)(iv) and (8)(a)(iii), 40(2)(b)(ii), 42(4)(a)(ii) and (b)(i), (5)(a)(iv), 44(6) and 47(3). Section 56 of the 1965 Act contains a definition of “prescribed” relevant to the exercise of the statutory powers under which these Regulations are made."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1977 c. 15 (“the 1977 Act”). The powers to prescribe means of attestation by which these Regulations are made were inserted by the 2006 Act, sections 50(2)(c), (3)(a)(ii) and (10). Section 26 contains a definition of “prescribed” relevant to the exercise of the statutory powers under which these Regulations are made."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "The functions of the Secretary of State under the 1965 and 1977 Acts were transferred to the Scottish Ministers by virtue of section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998 (c. 46)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2006/597/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:16:54.318044+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."
}