# The Registration Services (Fees, etc.) (Scotland) Regulations 2006, Regulation 7: Remission of fees

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The Registrar General may remit any fee or part of a fee payable under the provisions of the Acts specified in column 1 of Schedules 1 and 2 where–
(a) the payment of the fee is likely to cause hardship to the person by whom it is payable;
(b) the service in respect of which the fee is payable is performed for research purposes;
(ba) these criteria are met—
(i) remission is likely to promote public knowledge of the registers in respect of which fees are payable under these Regulations;
(ii) the fee remitted is for—
(aa) a general search made at the ScotlandsPeople Centre at General Register House, 2 Princes Street, Edinburgh, EH1 3YY; or
(bb) an Internet search; and
(iii) the search is made—
(aa) by or on behalf of an association whose objects include genealogy;
(bb) by or on behalf of a school within the meaning of section 135 of the Education (Scotland) Act 1980 or at a public library managed by a library authority (within the meaning of section 2 of the Public Libraries Consolidation (Scotland) Act 1887); or
(cc) using a discount voucher which has previously been issued by the Register General;
(c) an extract has been requested by the father or mother of a still-born child within one month of the date of registration of the still-birth, and the Registrar General consents in terms of section 37(2) of the 1965 Act to the extract being issued from the register of still-births; or
(d) the person named as the informant on an entry in the register of deaths (“the relevant entry”) has requested an extract of the relevant entry in the following circumstances:–
(i) the informant has previously been issued with an extract of the relevant entry on payment of the prescribed fee,
(ii) the informant has subsequently been notified by the Registrar General that an entry has been made in the Register of Corrections Etc. relating to the relevant entry following a notice received by the Registrar General from a procurator fiscal under section 28(1)(b) of the 1965 Act, and
(iii) the request has been made in writing within one month of the date of receipt of the notification by the Registrar General.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2006/575/regulation/7 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/registration-services-fees-etc-scotland-regulations-2006/regulation-7
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