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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-services-fees-etc-scotland-amendment-regulations-2007/note",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2007/531",
  "legislation_title": "The Registration Services (Fees, etc.) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-services-fees-etc-scotland-amendment-regulations-2007",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the fees payable to the Registrar General for Scotland for services provided under the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Scotland) Act 1965 (“the 1965 Act”), the Civil Partnership Act 2004 and the Local Electoral Administration and Registration Services (Scotland) Act 2006 (“the 2006 Act”).\nThe Registration Services (Fees, etc.) (Scotland) Regulations 2006 are amended from 1st January 2008–\n(a) to prescribe an annual fee under section 39B of the 1965 Act, created by the 2006 Act, for weekly notification of all deaths in Scotland (regulation 2(3) and (6));\n(b) to allow the Registrar General a wider power to remit internet search fees to promote public knowledge of the registers for genealogy associations, schools and public libraries (regulation 2(4)); and\n(c) to amend a minor error in the definition of an “Internet search” (regulation 2(2)).\nThe Regulations also amend the fee structure for general searching fees paid to the Registrar General from 28th April 2008 (regulation 2(5) and the Schedule). The changes to the current fees are set out in the Schedule.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2007/531/note",
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  "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."
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