
1 
These Regulations may be cited as the Registration of Births, Deaths, Marriages and Divorces (Fees) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1996 and shall come into force on 1st April 1996.
2 
In these Regulations—
 “the principal Regulations” means the Registration of Births, Deaths, Marriages and Divorces (Fees) (Scotland) Regulations 1993.
 “the 1965 Act” means the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Scotland) Act 1965.
3 
At the end of regulation 5(c) of the principal Regulations the full stop shall be deleted and there shall be inserted the following:—“; or
(d) the Registrar General has—
(i) received a notice concerning a death from a procurator-fiscal under section 28(1)(b) of the 1965 Act and has thereupon caused to be made such entry in the Register of Corrections Etc., as he thinks proper;
(ii) notified the person named as the informant in the relevant entry in the register of deaths, in writing, of the matters referred to in paragraph (d)(i) above;
(iii) received within one month of the date of receipt of such notification a request in writing from that person for an extract of the relevant entry in the register of deaths showing the annotation set out in the relative insertion in the Register of Corrections Etc.”
4 
In the entry numbered 11 in column 2 of Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations (general search in both the parochial registers and in the indexes to the statutory registers), there shall be substituted, for the words “(a) In a case” in that column to the end of that entry, (including the corresponding entries in columns 3 and 4 of that Schedule), the following entries:—“

(a) in a case where payment is made not less than 14 days in advance and a place is occupied in the limited amount of general search accommodation made available for reservation at this fee—
 per day or part thereof 12.00 13.00

(b) in any other case—
 per afternoon or part thereof (being any time after 1300 hours) 9.00 10.00

 per day 16.00 17.00

 per week 60.00 65.00

 per four weeks 200.00 220.00

 per quarter 455.00 500.00

 per year 1,350.00 1,350.00”.
5 
In the entry numbered 12 in column 2 of Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations (Recording of name, or change of name or surname, or alternative name) there shall be substituted, for the words “Recording of name” in that column to the end of that entry (including the corresponding entries in columns 3 and 4 of that Schedule), the following entries“
Recording of name, or change of name or surname, or alternative name 30.00 34.00”.
6 
Regulation 4 of the Registration of Births, Deaths, Marriages and Divorces (Fees) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1995 is hereby revoked.
James Meldrum
Registrar General
New Register House,
Edinburgh
1st March 1996Approved by the Secretary of State
James Douglas Hamilton
Minister of State, Scottish Office
St Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
5th March 1996