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BIRTHS, DEATHS AND MARRIAGES REGISTRATION ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1956

BIRTHS, DEATHS AND MARRIAGES REGISTRATION ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1956
- LONG TITLE

An Act to amend the law relating to the registration of births,
deaths and marriages, and the licensing of marriages; to dispense
with notifications of deaths of certain persons; and for purposes
connected with the matters aforesaid.
[5th June 1956]
Districts and OfficersRegistration districts and registration
authorities.

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BIRTHS, DEATHS AND MARRIAGES REGISTRATION ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1956
- SECT 1

1.(1) Each local government district shall be a registration district
and the district council shall be the local registration authority
for the purposes of this Act.

(2) A district council shall, in the exercise of the functions
conferred on it as a local registration authority,

(a)act as agent for the Ministry of Finance; and

(b)act in accordance with such directions as the Ministry may give
to the council;

Registrars and other staff.

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BIRTHS, DEATHS AND MARRIAGES REGISTRATION ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1956
- SECT 2

2.(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, a local
registration authority, with the approval of the Registrar General,
shall appoint a registrar of marriages and one or more deputy
registrars of marriages.

(2) A person holding an appointment under sub-section (1) may be
removed from his office of registrar or deputy registrar by the
local registration authority, with the approval of, or at the
direction of, the Registrar General.][

BIRTHS, DEATHS AND MARRIAGES REGISTRATION ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1956
- SECT 3
Financial provisions.

3. The Ministry shall retain or, as the case may be, defray in
respect of each financial year the amount of the difference between

(a)the aggregate of the amounts of salaries, superannuation and other
expenses payable by virtue of this Act in respect of any
registration district; and

(b)the aggregate of the amounts received in that registration
district under any enactment or otherwise by way of fees or other
expenses.

Delegation of power to grant special licences for marriages.

BIRTHS, DEATHS AND MARRIAGES REGISTRATION ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1956
- SECT 9

9. Where by any enactment any authority, body or person is
empowered to grant special licences for the solemnization at any
convenient times or places of marriages between persons of whom one
or both belongs, or belong, to any church or religious denomination
specified in the enactment, the Governor may on the recommendation
of the Registrar General appoint any person nominated by that
authority, body or person to exercise that power as deputy in, or
in respect of, such district and subject to such terms and
conditions as shall be specified in the instrument of appointment.

BIRTHS, DEATHS AND MARRIAGES REGISTRATION ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1956
- SECT 10
Certificates of notice of marriage.

10. Where a marriage is to be solemnised by licence, the
certificate of notice thereof required by section sixteen of the
Marriages (Ireland) Act, 1844, may be required to be given only
where the parties dwell in the districts of different registrars and
only by the registrar in whose district the marriage is not
intended to be so solemnised, and accordingly ... residue amends
s.16 of 1844 c.81

BIRTHS, DEATHS AND MARRIAGES REGISTRATION ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1956
- SECT 11
Manner of forbidding issue of registrar's licence or certificate
under Act of 1844.

11. Where either party to an intended marriage is a minor, the
issue of any such certificate as is referred to in section
seventeen of the Marriages (Ireland) Act, 1844, or the grant of a
licence under section twenty-one of that Act may be forbidden by
any person whose consent to the marriage of that party is requisite
under sub-section (1) of section one of the Marriages Act (Northern
Ireland), 1954, and accordingly ... residue amends s.18 of 1844 c.81

S.12 amends s.3 of 1863 c.27. S.13 rep. by 1967 c.25 (NI) s.65
sch.3

BIRTHS, DEATHS AND MARRIAGES REGISTRATION ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1956
- SECT 14
1954 c.21

14. The right to search the register books in the custody of
registrars, conferred by section nineteen of the Registration of
Marriages (Ireland) Act, 1863, shall cease to be restricted, and
accordingly ... residue amends s.19 of 1863 c.90

Ss.1519 rep. by 1967 c.25 (NI) s.65 sch.3; 1973 NI 8 art.9 sch.3;
SLR 1973

BIRTHS, DEATHS AND MARRIAGES REGISTRATION ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1956
- SECT 20
1863 c.90

20. In this Act the expression

"enactment" includes an Act of Parliament and an Act of the
Parliament of the United Kingdom, and any instrument made under any
such Act;

Definitions rep. by 1967 c.25 (NI) s.65 sch.3; 1973 NI 8 art.9
sch.3

"registrar of marriages" means a registrar for the purposes of the
Marriages (Ireland) Act, 1844 [and the Registration of Marriages
(Ireland) Act 1863].

BIRTHS, DEATHS AND MARRIAGES REGISTRATION ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1956
- SECT 21
1863 c.90

21.(1) This Act may be cited as the Births, Deaths and Marriages
Registration Act (Northern Ireland), 1956.

Subs.(2) rep. by 1967 c.25 (NI) s.65 sch.3; subs.(3) rep. by SLR
1973

Short title.