The acts for the registration of births, deaths, and marriages in England, 1836 to 1874 : and the acts for marriages in England, 1836 to 1872 : with other acts or parts of acts which concern the office or duties of the Registrar General and the duties of officers under the Registration Acts. With an index.

Date:
1878
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Credit: The acts for the registration of births, deaths, and marriages in England, 1836 to 1874 : and the acts for marriages in England, 1836 to 1872 : with other acts or parts of acts which concern the office or duties of the Registrar General and the duties of officers under the Registration Acts. With an index. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service. The original may be consulted at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service.

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    THE REGISTRATION ACT, 1836. 6 & 7 Will. 4. Ch. 86. * An Act for registering Births, Deaths, and Mar- riages in England. I7tli August 1836. r TjfZHEREA S it is expedient to provide the means rr for a complete register of the births, deaths, and marriages of His Majesty's subjects in England ■ And whereas an Act passed in the fifty - second year of the reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, intituled “ An Act for the better regu- “ lating Parish and other Registers of Births, Baptisms, “ Marriages, and Burials in England;and cdso an Act passed in the fourth year of the reign of His late Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled “ An Act for “ amending the Laivs respecting the Solemnization of “ Marriages in England,” are insufficient for the purpose aforesaid: Be it therefore enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, That after the first day of March in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven, so much of the said Acts as relates to the registration of mar- riages shall be repealed, (a)] 2. And he it enacted, that it shall be lawful for His Majesty to provide a proper office in London or West- minster, [6] to be called “ The General Register Office,” for keeping a register of all births, deaths, and marriages of His Majesty’s subjects in England, and to appoint for the said office under the great seal of the United King- dom a Registrar General of births, deaths, and marriages in England, and from time to time at pleasure to remove the said Registrar General, and appoiut some other person in his room. [52 G. 3. c. 146.] [4 G. 4. c. 76.] [■So much of recited Acts as relates to regis- tration of marriages repealed.] General Registry Office to be pro- vided in London or West- minster. * The Registration Act (6 & 7 W. 4. cap. 86.) is here placed before the Act for Marriages (6 & 7 W. 4. cap. 85.). That it ought to be so placed is evident by section 23 of the latter Act. (а) This section is repealed by 37 & 38 Viet. c. 88. (Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1874) post; also by 37 & 38 Yict. c. 35. (Statute Law Revision Act, 1874). (б) The office may be in any fit and convenient place : 15 & 16 Yict. c. 25.