Explanatory note

These Regulations prescribe, with effect from 1st January 2007, the fees payable to the Registrar General for Scotland and district registrars for services provided under the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Scotland) Act 1965 (“the 1965 Act”), the Marriage (Scotland) Act 1977 (“the 1977 Act”), the Civil Partnership Act 2004 (“the 2004 Act”) and the Local Electoral Administration and Registration Services (Scotland) Act 2006 (“the 2006 Act”).

Section 44 of the 2006 Act, which inserted section 39D into the 1965 Act, widened the scope of the information of which an extract can be provided for a fee by district registrars, and the fees for that wider sharing are prescribed here. The opportunity has been taken to consolidate the existing fees for births, deaths and marriages and incorporate the equivalent fees for the submission of a notice of proposed civil partnership and for a civil partnership registration and for searches and the issuing of extracts of entries in the registers of civil partnerships and dissolution of civil partnerships previously contained in S.S.I. 2005/556 with the equivalent and similar fees for births, deaths and marriages.

The fees payable for the existing services listed have been increased by these Regulations as noted in Schedule 3 to the Regulations. Otherwise they have not been increased.

The Regulations also prescribe fees for the provision of information under the new powers in section 58 of the Local Electoral Administration and Registration Services (Scotland) Act 2006 in relation to the issuing of other material kept or held by the Registrar General.

The Regulations listed in Schedule 4 which previously prescribed the fees payable under the 1965 Act, the 1977 Act and the 2004 Act are revoked.