
1 
These Regulations may be cited as the Registration Services (Fees, etc.) (Scotland) Regulations 2006 and shall come into force on 1st January 2007.
2 

(1) In these Regulations–
 “the 1965 Act” means the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Scotland) Act 1965;
 “the 1977 Act” means the Marriage (Scotland) Act 1977;
 “the 2004 Act” means the Civil Partnership Act 2004;
 “the 2006 Act” means the Local Electoral Administration and Registration Services (Scotland) Act 2006;
 “bulk particular search” means a search for multiple specified entries, by comparison of electronic records, caused to be made by the Registrar General;
 “express bulk particular search” means a bulk particular search made within 5 working days of the first working day after the date on which the application is received by the Register General;
 “general search” means a search (other than an Internet search) over any period of years for any number of entries, made by any person with the permission of the Registrar General or the district registrar;
 “Internet search” means a search, in the indexes to the statutory registers, to the Register of Dissolutions of Civil Partnership , to the accessible material under section 58(1) of the 2006 Act or to the parochial registers made available on the Internet, made by any person by means of the Internet with the permission of the Registrar General;
 “Internet search session” means the period of time beginning with the time at which a person has–
(a) access to the indexes made available on the Internet; and
(b) agreed to pay the prescribed fee for an Internet search session,and ending–
(a) 1 year after that time; or if sooner,
(b) with the time at which that person has retrieved  5 electronic images  of index data;
 “particular search” means a search for a specified entry caused to be made by the Registrar General or made by a district registrar;
 “public holiday” means Good Friday, Easter Monday, the first Monday in May and the third Monday in September;
 “search” means a bulk particular search, a general search, an Internet search or, as the case may be, a particular search;
 “the statutory registers” means–
(a) any register of births, still-births, deaths and marriages kept by a district registrar;
(b) any register of births, deaths and marriages transmitted to the Registrar General under the 1965 Act or any enactment repealed by that Act;
(c) the Register of Divorces; and
(d) the civil partnership register; and
 “working day” means a day on which the General Register Office is open for the purpose specified in section 38(2) of the 1965 Act.
(2) Any reference in these Regulations–
(a) to an application made by post includes an application made by facsimile; and
(b) to anything done in writing includes by electronic means.
3 
Subject to regulation 7, the fees payable under the provisions of the Acts specified in–
(a) column 1 of Part I of Schedule 1 for the services described in column 2 of that Schedule (searches in the indexes) shall be the amounts specified in column 3 thereof;
(b) column 1 of Part II of Schedule 1 for the services described in column 2 of that Schedule (issue of copy or extract entries and abbreviated extracts of births or deaths) shall be the amounts specified in column 3 thereof;
(c) column 1 of Part III of Schedule 1 for the services described in column 2 of that Schedule (recording of names or changes of names) shall be the amount specified in column 3 thereof;
(d) column 1 of Part IV of Schedule 1 for the services described in column 2 of that Schedule (notification of death) shall be the amount specified in column 3 thereof
4 
Subject to regulation 7, where–
(a) a person applies for a service which is described in the entry numbered 1 in column 2 of Part II of Schedule 1;
(b) the application is made–
(i) in person before 1300 hours and the person requests that the extract be issued after 1600 hours on the same day, or
(ii) in person after 1300 hours and the person requests that the extract be issued after 1000 hours on the next working day following the application, or
(iii) by post and the person requests that the extract be issued by post on the next working day following receipt of the application; and
(c) the Registrar General considers that the request can reasonably be complied with,then, in addition to the amount specified in column 3 of Part II of that Schedule as the fee payable for that service, a further fee of £15 per extract issued shall be payable, but, if the extract is not issued within the time requested, the further fee shall be refunded.
5 
Subject to regulation 7, the fees payable under provisions of the Acts specified in–
(a) column 1 of Part I of Schedule 2 for the services described in column 2 of that Schedule (searches in statutory and other registers or indexes) shall be the amounts specified in column 3 thereof;
(b) column 1 of Part II of Schedule 2 for the services described in column 2 of that Schedule (the issue of copy or extract entries and abbreviated extracts of births or deaths) shall be the amount specified in column 3 thereof.
6 

(1) The fees payable under the provisions of the 1977 Act specified in column 1 of Part I of Schedule 3 for the services described in column 2 of that Schedule (submission of marriage notice and civil marriage ceremony) shall be the amounts specified in column 3 thereof.
(2) The fees payable under the provisions of the 2004 Act specified in column 1 of Part II of Schedule 3 for the services described in column 2 of that Schedule (submission of notice of intended civil partnership and civil partnership registration) shall be the amounts specified in column 3 thereof.
7 
The Registrar General may remit any fee or part of a fee payable under the provisions of the Acts specified in column 1 of Schedules 1 and 2 where–
(a) the payment of the fee is likely to cause hardship to the person by whom it is payable;
(b) the service in respect of which the fee is payable is performed for research purposes;
(ba) these criteria are met—
(i) remission is likely to promote public knowledge of the registers in respect of which fees are payable under these Regulations;
(ii) the fee remitted is for—(aa) a general search made at the ScotlandsPeople Centre at General Register House, 2 Princes Street, Edinburgh, EH1 3YY; or(bb) an Internet search; and
(iii) the search is made—(aa) by or on behalf of an association whose objects include genealogy;(bb) by or on behalf of a school within the meaning of section 135 of the Education (Scotland) Act 1980 or at a public library managed by a library authority (within the meaning of section 2 of the Public Libraries Consolidation (Scotland) Act 1887); or(cc) using a discount voucher which has previously been issued by the Register General;
(c) an extract has been requested by the father or mother of a still-born child within one month of the date of registration of the still-birth, and the Registrar General consents in terms of section 37(2) of the 1965 Act to the extract being issued from the register of still-births; or
(d) the person named as the informant on an entry in the register of deaths (“the relevant entry”) has requested an extract of the relevant entry in the following circumstances:–
(i) the informant has previously been issued with an extract of the relevant entry on payment of the prescribed fee,
(ii) the informant has subsequently been notified by the Registrar General that an entry has been made in the Register of Corrections Etc. relating to the relevant entry following a notice received by the Registrar General from a procurator fiscal under section 28(1)(b) of the 1965 Act, and
(iii) the request has been made in writing within one month of the date of receipt of the notification by the Registrar General.
8 
The accessible material within the meaning of section 58(1) of the 2006 Act is prescribed for the purposes of section 58(6) of that Act (material a copy of which arrangements are to be made for access to be provided to district registrars).
9 
The Regulations specified in the first column of Schedule 4 are revoked.
D MACNIVEN
Registrar General for Scotland
New Register House,
Edinburgh
29th November 2006Approved by the Scottish Ministers
GEORGE LYON
Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers
St Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
29th November 2006
SCHEDULE 1
Regulation 3
PART I

1 2 3
Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Scotland) Act 1965 Service Fee payable under these Regulations £
Sections 28A(4), 38(2) and (3) and 47, and in relation to the civil partnership register, section 38(2)(a) as applied by section 98 of the 2004 Act 
1 
Particular search for each period of 5 years or part thereof in the indexes to the statutory registers, whether the specified entry is traced or not and application is made– 
 
(a) in person 5.00
 
(b) by post 5.00
 
2 
Particular search for each period of 5 years or part thereof in the parochial registers, whether the specified entry is traced or not, and application is made– 
 
(a) in person 5.00
 
(b) by post 5.00
 
3 
Internet search – per Internet search session 7.50
 
4 
 General  search in both the parochial registers and in the indexes to the statutory registers– 
 
(a)  in the case of a 2 hour session after 16:30 on a Monday to Friday—  
 per group of up to 20 people 200.00
 per group of between 21 and 50 people 250.00
 per person 10.00
 
(ab)  on a Saturday, Sunday or public holiday— 
 per person, per day 30.00
 
(b) in any other case– 
 per 2 hour session or part thereof (only one such session being available per person per day) in the limited amount of general search accommodation made available for this purpose Nil
 per day 15.00
 per quarter 490.00
 per year 1,450.00
 
5 
Bulk particular search in the indexes to the statutory registers, whether the specified entry is traced or not– 
 
(a) per application; 120.00
 
(b) for each of the first 20,000 records searched; and 0.012
 
(c) for each group of 10 records (or part thereof) searched additional to the first 20,000 records 0.012
 
5A 
 Express bulk particular search in the indexes to the statutory registers, whether the specified entry is traced or not— 
 
(a) per application; 180.00
 
(b) for each of the first 20,000 records searched; 0.018
 
(c) for for each group of 10 records (or part thereof) searched additional to the first 20,000 records 0.018
Civil Partnership Act 2004  
Section 122(4)(a) 
6 
Particular search for each period of 5 years or part thereof in the index to the Register of Dissolutions of Civil Partnership, whether the specified entry is traced or not and application is made– 
 
(a) in person 5.00
 
(b) by post 5.00
 
7 
Internet search – per Internet search session 7.50
 
8 
 General  search in the index to the Register of Dissolutions of Civil Partnership– 
 
(a)  in the case of a 2 hour session after 16:30 on a Monday to Friday—  
 per group of up to 20 people 200.00
 per group of between 21 and 50 people 250.00
 per person 10.00
 
(ab)  in the case of a 2 hour session after 16:30 on a Monday to Friday—  
 per person, per day 30.00
 
(b) on a Saturday, Sunday or public holiday— 
 per 2 hour session or part thereof (only one such session being available per person per day) in the limited amount of general search accommodation made available for this purpose Nil
 per day 15.00
 per quarter 490.00
 per year 1,450.00
 
9 
Bulk particular search in the index to the Register of Dissolutions of Civil Partnership, whether the specified entry is traced or not– 
 
(a) per application; 120.00
 
(b) for each of the first 20,000 records searched; and 0.012
 
(c) for each group of 10 records (or part thereof) searched additional to the first 20,000 records 0.012
 
9A 
 Express bulk particular search in the index to the Register of Dissolutions of Civil Partnership, whether the specified entry is traced or not— 
 
(a) per application; 180.00
 
(b) for each of the first 20,000 records searched; 0.018
 
(c) for for each group of 10 records (or part thereof) searched additional to the first 20,000 records 0.018
Local Electoral Administration and Registration Services (Scotland) Act 2006  
Section 58(5)(a) 
10 
Particular search for each period of 5 years or part thereof in the index of accessible material under section 58(1) of the 2006 Act, whether the specified entry is traced or not and application is made– 
 
(a) in person 5.00
 
(b) by post 5.00
 
11 
Internet search – per Internet search session 7.50
 
12 
 General  search in the index of accessible material under section 58(1) of the 2006 Act– 
 
(a)  in the case of a 2 hour session after 16:30 on a Monday to Friday—  
 per group of up to 20 people 200.00
 per group of between 21 and 50 people 250.00
 per person 10.00
 
(ab) on a Saturday, Sunday or public holiday— 
 per person, per day 30.00
 
(b) in any other case– 
 per day 15.00
 per quarter 490.00
 per year 1,450.00
 
13 
Bulk particular search in the index of accessible material under section 58(1) of the 2006 Act, whether the specified entry is traced or not– 
 
(a) per application; 120.00
 
(b) for each of the first 20,000 records searched; and 0.012
 
(c) for each group of 10 records (or part thereof) searched additional to the first 20,000 records 0.012
 
14 
 Express bulk particular search in the index of accessible material under section 58(1) of the 2006 Act, whether the specified entry is traced or not— 
 
(a) per application; 180.00
 
(b) for each of the first 20,000 records searched; 0.018
 
(c) for each group of 10 records (or part thereof) searched additional to the first 20,000 records 0.018
PART II

1 2 3
Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Scotland) Act 1965 Service Fee payable under these Regulations £
Sections 28A(4), 38(2) and (3), 39E and 47, and, in relation to the civil partnership register, section 38(2)(b) as it is applied by section 98 of the 2004 Act 
1 
Issue of an extract of an entry in a statutory register or an abbreviated extract of birth or death or an extract of an entry in a parochial register 10.00
 
2 
Issue of an extract of an entry identified by an Internet search where application is made by electronic mail in the course of that search 12.00
Civil Partnership Act 2004  
Section 122(4)(b) 
3 
Issue of an extract of an entry in the Register of Dissolutions of Civil Partnership 10.00
 
4 
Issue of such an extract of an entry identified by an Internet search where application is made by electronic mail in the course of that search 12.00
Local Electoral Administration and Registration Services (Scotland) Act 2006  
Section 58(5)(b) 
5 
Issue of a copy or extract of accessible material under section 58(1) of the 2006 Act 10.00
 
6 
Issue of such a copy or extract of an entry identified by an Internet search where application is made by electronic mail in the course of that search 12.00
PART III

1 2 3
Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Scotland) Act 1965 Service Fee payable under these Regulations £
Section 43(8) 
1 
Recording of name, or change of name or surname or alternative name 40.00
 
2 
Recording of name, or change of name or surname or alternative name for second or any subsequent members of the family intimated at the same time 10.00
PART IV

1 2 3
Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Scotland) Act 1965 Service Fee payable under these Regulations
  £
Section 39B Weekly notice of all deaths registered in Scotland, as may be prescribed under section 39B(2) of the 1965 Act 2,000.00 per annum.
SCHEDULE 2
Regulation 5
PART I

1 2 3
Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Scotland) Act 1965 Service Fee payable under these Regulations £
Sections 37(1), 39D(1) and in relation to the civil partnership register and the Register of Dissolutions of Civil Partnership, section 39C as it is applied by sections 98 and 122(7) of the 2004 Act respectively 
1 
Particular search for each period of 5 years or part thereof in the indexes to the statutory registers and the Register of Dissolutions of Civil Partnership, whether the specified entry is traced or not, unless the specified entry has been entered in the Registers of births, still-births, deaths, marriages or civil partnerships within the preceding month, in which case no fee is payable 5.00
 
2 
Particular search for each period of 5 years or part thereof in the parochial registers, whether the specified entry is traced or not 5.00
 
3 
General search in the indexes to the statutory registers, the Register of Dissolutions of Civil Partnership and the parochial registers– 15.00
 
(a) for the first hour or part thereof 
 
(b) for the second and each subsequent hour or part thereof 15.00
Local Electoral Administration and Registration Services (Scotland) Act 2006  
Section 58(8)(a) 
4 
Particular search for each period of 5 years or part thereof in the index of accessible material under section 58(6) of the 2006 Act, whether the specified entry is traced or not 5.00
 
5 
General search in the index of accessible material under section 58(6) of the 2006 Act to which the district registrar has access– 15.00
 
(a) for the first hour or part thereof 
 
(b) for the second and each subsequent hour or part thereof 15.00
PART II

1 2 3
Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Scotland) Act 1965 Service Fee payable under these Regulations £
Sections 37(1), 39D(1), 39E(3) and in relation to the civil partnership register and the Register of Dissolutions of Civil Partnership, section 39C as it is applied by sections 98 and 122(7) of the 2004 Act respectively 
1 
Issue of an extract of an entry in a statutory register or an abbreviated extract of birth or death, not being an abbreviated extract of birth or death issued under section 39E(1) of the 1965 Act, an entry in the Register of Dissolutions of Civil Partnership, or an entry in a parochial register 10.00
Local Electoral Administration and Registration Services (Scotland) Act 2006  
Section 58(8)(b) 
2 
Issue of a copy or extract of any of the accessible material under section 58(6) of the 2006 Act 10.00
SCHEDULE 3
Regulation 6
PART I

1 2 3 4
Marriage (Scotland) Act 1977 Service Fee payable under these Regulations ...
  £ ...
Section 3(1) Submission of marriage notice £45.00 ...
Section 19(2) Civil marriage ceremony 55.00 ...
PART II

1 2 3 4
Civil Partnership Act 2004 Service Fee payable under these Regulations ...
  £ ...
Section 88(1) Submission of notice of proposed civil partnership £45.00 ...
Section 95(4) Civil partnership registration 55.00 ...
SCHEDULE 4
Regulation 9


Column 1 – enactment Column 2 – references
The Births, Deaths, Marriages and Divorces (Fees) (Scotland) Regulations 1998 S.I.1998/643
The Births, Deaths, Marriages and Divorces (Fees) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1998 S.I. 1998/3191
The Births, Deaths, Marriages and Divorces (Fees) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2000 S.S.I. 2000/447
The Births, Deaths, Marriages and Divorces (Fees) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2002 S.S.I. 2002/390
The Births, Deaths, Marriages and Divorces (Fees) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2003 S.S.I. 2003/89
The Births, Deaths, Marriages and Divorces (Fees) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2005 S.S.I. 2005/100
The Marriages and Civil Partnerships (Fees) (Scotland) Regulations 2005 S.S.I. 2005/556