Statutory Instruments
1994 No. 3257

REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS, DEATHS, MARRIAGES, ETC.
ENGLAND AND WALES
The Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Fees) Order 1994

Made
16th December 1994

Laid before Parliament
19th December 1994

Coming into force

Articles 1 and 2 and (for some purposes) Article 4
1st February 1995

the remainder
1st April 1995

The Secretary of State for Health, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 5(1) and (2) of, and paragraphs 1 and 2 of Schedule 3 to, the Public Expenditure and Receipts Act 1968(1) and now vested in her(2) and of all other powers enabling her in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement.

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Fees) Order 1994.

(2) The following provisions of this Order shall come into force on 1st February 1995—

(a)Articles 1 and 2;

(b)Article 4 for the purposes of revoking so much of the Order specified in it as relates to the fees payable under the enactments specified in column (1) of Part I of the Schedule to this Order.

(3) Except as provided by paragraph (2) of this Article, this Order shall come into force on 1st April 1995.

Fees payable from 1st February 1995

2.  The fee payable in England and Wales under an enactment specified in column (2) of Part I of the Schedule to this Order in respect of the matter specified in relation to it in column (3) shall be the fee specified in relation to it in column (4) and each of those enactments shall have effect accordingly.

Fees payable from 1st April 1995

3.  The fee payable in England and Wales under an enactment specified in column (2) of Part II of the Schedule to this Order in respect of the matter specified in relation to it in column (3) shall be the fee specified in relation to it in column (4) and each of those enactments shall have effect accordingly.

Revocation of Order

4.  The Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Fees) Order 1993(3) (under which the fees payable were as respectively set out in column (5) of the Schedule to this Order) is hereby revoked.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health

Tom Sackville
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,
Department of Health
16th December 1994

Articles 2 and 3
SCHEDULE

PART I

Fees Payable From 1st February 1995

(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
(5)

Enactment specifying fees
Matter for which fee is payable
New fee
Old fee

1887 c. 40
Savings Banks Act 1887

Section 10(4)
Certificate of birth, death or marriage for purposes of certain Acts
£2.00
£2.00

1944 c. 31
Education Act 1944

Section 94(1)
Copy of entry in birth register for purposes of certain Acts
£2.00
£2.00

1949 c. 76
Marriage Act 1949

Section 32(5)(5)
Licence for marriage
£45.00
£45.00

Section 63(1)(b)

Certified copy of entry issued under that subsection—

(i)
when application is made at the time of registering or to a registrar

£2.50
£2.50

(ii)in any other case

£5.50
£5.50

Section 64(2)(c)
Certified copy of entry issued under that subsection
£5.50
£5.50

Section 65(2)(c)
Certified copy of entry, following a search of indexes kept at General Register Office
£6.00
£5.50

1953 c. 20
Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953

Section 13(2)
Issue of certificate of baptism
£1.00
£1.00

Section 30(2)(c)
Certified copy of entry, following search of indexes kept at General Register Office
£6.00
£5.50

Section 31(2)(c)
Certified copy of entry issued under that subsection
£5.50
£5.50

Section 32(c)
Certified copy of entry in registers kept by registrars
£2.50
£2.50

Section 33(1)

(i)short certificate of birth obtained at the time of registration, or if more than one such certificate is obtained, the first of these

NIL
NIL

(ii)Any other short certificate of birth obtained from a registrar

£2.00
£2.00

(iii)A short certificate of birth obtained from a superintendent registrar

£3.00
£3.00

(iv)A short certificate of birth obtained from the Registrar General

£4.00
£3.50

1961 c. 34
Factories Act 1961

Section 178(1)
Extract of entry in birth register for purposes of that Act
£2.00
£2.00

1992 c. 5
Social Security Administration Act 1992

Section 124(3)
Certificate of birth, death or marriage for purposes of certain Acts
£2.00
£2.00

PART II

Fees Payable From 1st April 1995

(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
(5)

Enactment specifying fees
Matter for which fee is payable
New fee
Old fee

1855 c. 81
Places of Worship Registration Act 1855

Section 5
Certification of place of meeting for religious worship
£17.00
£16.00

1949 c. 76
Marriage Act 1949

Section 27(6)
Entry in marriage notice book
£19.00
£18.00

Section 27(7)(6)
Attendance of superintendent registrar other than at his office for purpose of being given notice of marriage of house-bound or detained person
£35.00
£32.00

Section 41(6)(7)
Registration of buildings for solemnization of marriages
£93.00
£90.00

Section 51(1)(8)

Fee of registrar for attending marriage—

(i)
at register office

£23.00
£19.00

(ii)at registered building or at the place where a house-bound or detained person usually resides

£33.00
£31.00

Section 51(2)(9)
Fee of superintendent registrar attending marriage at the place where a house-bound or detained person usually resides
£35.00
£32.00

Section 57(4)(10)

Sum paid to incumbent, etc. for every entry contained in quarterly certified copies of entries of marriage

£1.80
£1.60

Section 64(2)(a)
General search of indexes of register books kept by superintendent registrars
£16.00
£15.00

1953 c. 20
Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953

Section 31(2)(a)
General search of indexes kept by superintendent registrars
£16.00
£15.00

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order specifies the fees payable under the Acts relating to the registration of births, deaths and marriages and associated matters.
In the case of fees which have increased, new fees for services provided by the General Register Office take effect on 1st February 1995. Increases in fees for local registration services take effect on 1st April 1995. The fees payable both before and after those dates are set out in the Schedule.


(1)
1968 c. 14; paragraph 1 of Schedule 3 was amended by section 116(1) and paragraph 21 of Schedule 9 to the Friendly Societies Act 1974 (c. 46), and by section 4 and paragraph 5 of Schedule 2 to the Social Security (Consequential Provisions) Act 1992 (c. 6).By virtue of section 2(2) of the Marriage Act 1983 (c. 32) the reference to the Marriage Act 1949 (c. 76) in the said Schedule 3 includes a reference to that Act as amended by the 1983 Act.

(2)
References to “the Secretary of State” were substituted for references to “the Minister of Health” in Schedule 3 by article 5(4)(a) of the Secretary of State for Social Services Order 1968 (S.I.1968/1699).

(3)
S.I. 1993/3116.

(4)
Section 10 was amended by Part III of Schedule 6 to the Post Office Act 1969 (c. 48) and by Schedule 4 to the Trustee Savings Banks Act 1985 (c. 58) and is applied by regulation 32 of the Savings Certificates Regulations 1972 (S.I.1972/641) and by regulation 25 of the Premium Savings Bonds Regulations 1972 (S.I.1972/765).

(5)
Section 32(5) was amended by article 4(2) of the Registration of Births Deaths and Marriages (Fees) Order 1968 (S.I. 1968/1242).

(6)
Section 27(7) was inserted by paragraph 5(c) of Schedule 1 to the Marriage Act 1983.

(7)
Section 41(1) and (7) was amended as to the meaning of “building” by section 1(1) of the Marriage (Registration of Buildings) Act 1990 (c. 33).

(8)
Section 51(1) was so numbered by paragraph 15 of Schedule 1 to the Marriage Act 1983.

(9)
Section 51(2) was inserted by paragraph 15 of Schedule 1 to the Marriage Act 1983.

(10)
Section 57(4) was amended by paragraph 40 of Schedule 29 to the Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70).