{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/savings-banks-act-1887/section-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/savings-banks-act-1887/section-10.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/50-51/40",
  "legislation_title": "Savings Banks Act 1887",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/savings-banks-act-1887",
  "path": "section/10",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Price of certificate of birth, death, or marriage.",
  "text": "(1) For the purpose of the Acts relating to the National Savings Bank . . . , and of the Government Annuities Act 1929, a certificate of the birth or death or marriage of any depositor, or of any person insured under any of the above-mentioned Acts, shall be given under his hand by a registrar of births and deaths or marriages, or other person having the care of the register in which such birth or death or marriage is entered for , where the birth, death or marriage is registered in England and Wales, the appropriate fee or in any other case for a sum not exceeding one shilling in place of all fees or payments in respect of the same, on application being made for the same in such form and under such regulations as may be from time to time approved of by the Registrar-General of Births, Deaths, and Marriages for England, Scotland, and Ireland respectively.\n(2) In subsection (1), “the appropriate fee” means the fee payable to the registrar or other person having care of the register concerned for a certified copy of an entry in the register by virtue of section 38A of the Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953 or section 71A of the Marriage Act 1949.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 10(1): s. 10 renumbered as s. 10(1) (12.7.2016) by Immigration Act 2016 (c. 19), s. 94(1), Sch. 15 para. 7(a); S.I. 2016/603, reg. 3(w)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words substituted by Post Office Act 1969 (c. 48), Sch. 6 Pt. III"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words repealed by Trustee Savings Banks Act 1985 (c. 58, SIF 110), ss. 4(3), 7(3), Sch. 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of Interpretation Act 1978 (c. 30), s. 17(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 10(1) inserted (12.7.2016) by Immigration Act 2016 (c. 19), s. 94(1), Sch. 15 para. 7(b); S.I. 2016/603, reg. 3(w)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "S. 10(2) inserted (12.7.2016) by Immigration Act 2016 (c. 19), s. 94(1), Sch. 15 para. 7(c); S.I. 2016/603, reg. 3(w)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1929 c. 29."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 10 power to amend conferred by Public Expenditure and Receipts Act 1965 (c.14), s. 5(1), Sch. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 10 applied with modifications by S.I. 1984/779, reg. 26S. 10 applied with modifications by S.I. 1991/1031, reg. 26S. 10 applied with modifications by S.I. 1991/1407, reg. 23"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Reference to Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages for Ireland to be construed as reference to Department of Finance for Northern Ireland: S.R. & O. 1922/183 (Rev. XVI, p. 991: 1922, p. 734), art. 44 and Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973 (c. 36), Sch. 5 para. 8(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "S. 10: by virtue of S.S.I. 2010/428, art. 2, Sch. the fee payable (S.) (1.1.2011) under s. 10 is £10.00 and S.S.I. 2009/65 is revoked by art. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C5",
      "text": "S. 10: by virtue of S.I. 2010/441, art. 2, Sch. (as substituted (1.9.2014) by S.I. 2014/1790, art. 2) the fees payable (E.W.) under s. 10 are £4.00, £7.00 and £10.00 respectively for the purposes specified in that Schedule"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C6",
      "text": "S. 10 applied (6.4.2015) by The National Savings (No. 2) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/624), regs. 1(1), 81"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/50-51/40/section/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:36:39.952634+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."
}