Baptismal Registers Measure, 1961
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | measure 1961 No. 2 |
| Year | 1961 |
Baptismal Registers Measure, 1961
(9 & 10 Eliz. 2)
A MEASURE passed by the National Assembly of the Church of England
To provide for the annotation of parochial registers of baptisms in cases of persons legitimated after baptism, and for the issue of short certificates of baptism in certain cases, and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.
1 Annotation of entries.
(1) A custodian of registers of baptisms maintained under section three of the Parochial Registers Act, 1812 , shall, without any fee, make the prescribed annotation in any such register in his custody against any entry shewing the baptism of a person who has been legitimated since he was baptised, if the following conditions are satisfied:—
( a ) there is produced to the custodian by an interested person a certified copy of an entry in a register, which is maintained under the Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1953 , or which is in the custody of the Registrar General, being an entry in which the birth of the baptised person is re-registered as that of a legitimated person; and
( b ) the interested person identifies to the custodian, in the registers of baptism in his custody, the entry shewing baptism which is alleged to require annotation; and
( c ) the custodian is satisfied that the said certified copy relates to the birth of the person whose baptism is recorded in the entry so identified to him:
Provided that nothing in this section shall require any custodian to allow any search to be made in any register of baptisms without payment of such fees as may be lawfully demanded by him.
(2) In this section ‘prescribed annotation’ means the form of words set forth in Part I of the Schedule to this Measure or a form of words substantially to the like effect.
(3) Any certificate of the baptism of any person (other than a short certificate of baptism given under the succeeding section) given in respect of an entry in a register of baptisms which has been annotated in accordance with the provisions of this section shall set out the annotation which appears on the register in full.
2 Short certificates of baptism.
(1) A custodian of registers of baptisms shall, in any case in which before the passing of this Measure he would have given a certificate of the baptism of any person compiled from the registers in his custody, give, at the request of...
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