Explanatory note

These Regulations amend the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Regulations 1965 (“the 1965 Regulations”) to make amendments which are consequential on the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Re-registration (Scotland) Regulations 2007 which allow district registrars to re-register births in certain circumstances (regulation 2(3)).

The Regulations make further minor amendments to the 1965 Regulations as set out in regulation 2(2) and (4) to (6), including enabling electronic authorisation by the Registrar General.

Regulation 3 provides that entries in the Register of Divorces which are held in the form of numbered extract Court of Session or sheriff court decrees under the Registration of Births, Still births, Deaths and Marriages (Prescription of Forms) (Scotland) Regulations 1997 may comprise copies of such extracts received in electronic form.

Regulation 4 corrects the prescribed particulars to be contained in abbreviated extracts of birth.

A Regulatory Impact Assessment has not been produced for this instrument as it has no impact on costs to business.