The Local Electoral Administration and Registration Services (Scotland) Act 2006 (Commencement No. 7) Order 2022

Made: 6th September 2022

Laid before the Scottish Parliament: 8th September 2022

Coming into force: 24th September 2022

The Scottish Ministers make the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 61(2)(a) and 63(2) of the Local Electoral Administration and Registration Services (Scotland) Act 2006[^f00001].

Citation and commencement

1

This Order may be cited as the Local Electoral Administration and Registration Services (Scotland) Act 2006 (Commencement No. 7) Order 2022 and comes into force on 24 September 2022.

Provisions coming into force on 24 September 2022

2

The following provisions of the Local Electoral Administration and Registration Services (Scotland) Act 2006 come into force on 24 September 2022—

• (a) section 39(3)(a) and (b) (registration of births) so far as not already in force[^f00002],

• (b) section 39(6) for the purpose of the insertion of section 16B (registration of births) of the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Scotland) Act 1965[^f00003],

• (c) section 39(1) for the purposes of that commencement of section 39(3)(a) and (b), and (6),

• (d) section 42(3)(a)(i) and (ii) (registration of deaths) so far as not already in force,

• (e) section 42(3)(b) so far as not already in force[^f00004],

• (f) section 42(1) for the purposes of that commencement of section 42(3)(a)(i) and (ii) and (3)(b).

Signed

ANGUS ROBERTSON — A member of the Scottish Government — 6th September 2022

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Order brings into force, on 24 September 2022, section 39(3)(a) and (b) of the Local Electoral Administration and Registration Services (Scotland) Act 2006 (“the Act”), so far as not already in force. Those provisions amend section 14 of the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Scotland) Act 1965 (“the 1965 Act”) in relation to the duty of a person to give the prescribed particulars concerning a birth to the district registrar. Section 39(6) of the Act is also brought into force from that date for the purpose of inserting section 16B (registration of births) of the 1965 Act.

The Order also brings into force, on 24 September 2022, section 42(3)(a)(i) and (ii) and (3)(b) of the Act, so far as not already in force, which amend section 23 of the 1965 Act in relation to the duty of a person to give the prescribed particulars concerning a death to the district registrar.

These provisions enable the submission of the particulars for the registration of a birth or a death by the informant remotely from a registration office.

Sections 61 to 63 of the Act came into force on Royal Assent on 1 August 2006.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 2006 asp 14.

[^f00002]: Section 39(3)(b) inserts section 14(1A) of the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Scotland) Act 1965 (“the 1965 Act”). Section 14(1A)(b) of that Act is immediately substituted with effect from 24 September 2022 by section 25(2)(b) of the Coronavirus (Recovery and Reform) (Scotland) Act 2022 (asp 8) (“the 2022 Act”).

[^f00003]: 1965 c. 49.

[^f00004]: Section 42(3)(b) inserts section 23(1A) of the 1965 Act. Section 23(1A)(b) of that Act is immediately substituted with effect from 24 September 2022 by section 27(2)(a) of the 2022 Act.