
1 

(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Accounting) Amendment Regulations 1996 and shall come into force on 30th August 1996.
(2) In these Regulations “the 1968 Regulations” means the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages Regulations 1968.
2 
In regulation 87(1) of the 1968 Regulations (rendering of accounts), for the words from “each period of 3 months” to “respectively” there shall be substituted the words “the period of 12 months ending on the 31st March each year”.
3 
For the period ending on 31st March 1997, regulation 87(1) of the 1968 Regulations shall have effect as if for the words substituted by regulation 2 above there had been substituted the words “the period beginning on 1st July 1996 and ending on 31st March 1997”.
Given under my hand on 31 July 1996
Dr. D. Holt
Registrar General
Signed by authority of the Chancellor of the Exchequer
Angela Knight
Economic Secretary to the Treasury
3 August 1996