An Act to amend the Law with respect to Districts for registration purposes and the appointment of Superintendent Registrars of Births and Deaths in certain Unions.
B E it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
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Superintendent registrars of ‘temporary districts.’1 Superintendent registrars of ‘temporary districts.’
(1)1.—(1.) Section seven of the Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1836 , shall apply to every poor law union however constituted and to the guardians thereof.
Provided that nothing in this Act shall affect the tenure of office of any person who is a registrar or superintendent registrar at the passing of this Act.
(2) (2.) Section seven of the Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1836, shall be read and have effect as if for the words ‘each union’ the words ‘such union’ were substituted.
(3) (3.) The enactments mentioned in the schedule to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent mentioned in the third column of that schedule.
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2. This Act may be cited as theBirths and Deaths Registration Act, 1901, and the Births and Deaths Registration Acts, 1836 to 1874, and this Act may be cited together as the Births and Deaths Registration Acts, 1836 to 1901.
