{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statistics-and-registration-service-act-2007/section-71",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statistics-and-registration-service-act-2007/section-71.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2007/18",
  "legislation_title": "Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statistics-and-registration-service-act-2007",
  "path": "section/71",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "71",
  "heading": "Deputy superintendent registrars and registrars",
  "text": "For section 8 of the Registration Service Act 1953 (deputy superintendent registrars and registrars) substitute—\n“Deputy superintendent registrars and registrars\n8 (1) Subject to the provisions of the local scheme, a council which employs a superintendent registrar or a registrar of births and deaths may appoint one or more fit persons to act as his deputy.\n(2) Any person appointed as a deputy under subsection (1) shall have all the powers and duties of a superintendent registrar or a registrar of births and deaths, as the case may be.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 71 in force at 1.12.2007 by S.I. 2007/3388, art. 2(i)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2007/18/section/71",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:12:39.032593+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."
}