The Registration of Births, Deaths, Marriages and Civil Partnerships (Fees) Regulations 2016

[^key-cf31ad3b5d0cff33ac13d0aa946f0a8b]: Words in reg. 3A(5) inserted (28.5.2024) by The Registration of Births, Deaths, Marriages and Civil Partnerships (Fees and Records) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/598), regs. 1(2), 4(1)(b)(ii) (with reg. 8)

[^key-24a9789a3a16273ae9b99b9627249eb9]: Words in Sch. 1 inserted (9.9.2024) by The Registration of Births, Deaths, Marriages and Civil Partnerships (Fees and Records) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/598), regs. 1(3), 6(2) (with reg. 8); S.I. 2024/516, art. 3(k)

[^key-d88d5198ae680cc27f38112b3b301031]: Words in reg. 2 substituted (9.9.2024) by The Registration of Births, Deaths, Marriages and Civil Partnerships (Fees and Records) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/598), regs. 1(3), 6(1)(a) (with reg. 8); S.I. 2024/516, art. 3(k)

[^key-d3deeca0bc9ebcc826e104f161759d72]: Words in reg. 2 inserted (9.9.2024) by The Registration of Births, Deaths, Marriages and Civil Partnerships (Fees and Records) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/598), regs. 1(3), 6(1)(b) (with reg. 8); S.I. 2024/516, art. 3(k)

Transmission of part of fees to Registrar General

3A

• (1) This regulation applies to a category A fee, a category B fee or a category C fee (and referred to in this regulation as “a relevant fee”).

• (2) Subject to paragraph (3), on each occasion where the superintendent registrar, registrar or registration authority (as the case may be) is paid a relevant fee, that person must pay to the Registrar General on demand, in respect of each—

• (a) category A fee, a part in the amount of £64.00;

• (b) category B fee, a part in the amount of £52.00;

• (c) category C fee, a part in the amount of £44.00.

• (3) Where a relevant fee has been reduced or partially refunded pursuant to regulation 3(2), the amount payable to the Registrar General under paragraph (2) is reduced by the same proportion by which the relevant fee was reduced.

• (4) Amounts payable to the Registrar General under this regulation which remain unpaid after the expiry of a period of 28 days commencing with the date of demand are recoverable as debts due to the Crown.

• (5) In this regulation—

• “category A fee” means—the fee specified in column 3 of row 16ZA; the fee specified in column 3 of row 16ZB; the second fee specified in column 3 of row 17A;the fee specified in column 3 of row 37A; the fee specified in column 3 of row 48A, of the table in Schedule 1;

• “category B fee” means—the fee specified in column 3 of row 22C;the fee specified in column 3 of row 22D,of the table in Schedule 1;

• “category C fee” means—the fee specified in column 3 of row 4;the fee specified in column 3 of row 34,of the table in Schedule 1.

Revocations and amendments

Offline application fee

3B

• (1) Where an application is made to the Registrar General for a relevant service and the application is made by way of offline application, an additional non-refundable fee of £4.50 is payable to the Registrar General.

• (2) The fee in paragraph (1) is not payable if, at the time of making the application, the online application service is not available.

• (3) In this regulation—

• “offline application” means an application for a service that is not made via the public website known as www.gov.uk;

• “online application” means an application for a service that is made via the public website known as www.gov.uk.

• “relevant service” means a service as set out in rows 16, 18, 22, 36, 39, 47, 49 and 50 of the table in Schedule 1.

Premium postal service fee

3C

• (1) Where an application is made to the Registrar General for a copy or other record of any information held by the Registrar General using the priority service the Registrar General may, on request and upon payment of the applicable fee, provide the document by premium postal service and the applicable fee is —

• (a) On a working day a fee of £8.00;

• (b) On a Saturday a fee of £21.50;

• (c) Overseas a fee of £13.50.

• (2) The fee for the premium postal service is—

• (a) payable to the Registrar General;

• (b) payable in addition to any other fee payable for provision of that document.

• (3) In this regulation “premium postal service” means a postal service for which the fee payable to the Registrar General is in addition to the fee payable to the Registrar General for delivery of the same documents by first class post.

General index search fee (no reference provided)

3D

• (1) Where an application is made to the Registrar General for a certified copy and the relevant information does not contain the reference from the relevant index kept by the Registrar General, an additional non-refundable fee of £3.50 is payable to the Registrar General to undertake the search of the index on the applicant’s behalf.

• (2) The fee in regulation 3D(1) is not payable where the relevant index kept by the Registrar General is not available to the public for searching.

• (b) “relevant index” means—

• (i) any index kept by the Registrar General in relation to any register of births, deaths, marriages or civil partnerships; or

• (ii) an index kept by the Registrar General pursuant to Regulation 23 of the Marriage of Same Sex Couples (Conversion of Civil Partnership) Regulations 2014.

Retained fee

3E

• (1) A fee of £4.00 is retained by the Registrar General where an application is made to the Registrar General for a certified copy and the corresponding entry cannot be located from the relevant information provided.

Multilingual standard form fee

3F

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Revocations and amendments