Population (Statistics) Act 1938
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1938 c. 12 |
| Year | 1938 |
Population (Statistics) Act, 1938
(1 & 2 Geo. 6.) CHAPTER 12.
An Act to make further provision for obtaining statistical information with respect to the population of Great Britain; and for purposes connected therewith.
[30th March 1938]
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:—
1 Power to direct information to be furnished.
1. With a view to the compilation of statistical information with respect to the social and civil condition of the population of Great Britain, every person giving information in accordance with the Registration Acts, upon the registration, on or after the first day of July nineteen hundred and thirty-eight, of any birth, still-birth, or death, shall furnish to the registration officer such of the particulars specified in the Schedule to this Act as are appropriate to the registration and are within the knowledge of the person giving the information.
2 Duty of Registrar-General to collect information, and provision for expenses.
(1) It shall be the duty of the Registrar-General to make such arrangements and to do all such things as are necessary for the collection and collation of all particulars furnished to registration officers pursuant to this Act, and for that purpose to make arrangements for the preparation and issue of any necessary forms and instructions.
(2) The Registrar-General in the performance of his functions under this Act shall be subject to the control of, and shall comply with any directions given by, the Minister of Health.
(3) Any expenses incurred with the approval of the Treasury by the Minister of Health or by the Registrar-General in connection with the performance of his functions under this Act shall be defrayed out of moneys provided by Parliament.
3 Power to make regulations.
(1) The power of the Minister of Health, and of the Registrar-General with the approbation of the Minister of Health, under the Registration Acts to make regulations with respect to the performance by registration officers of their functions under those Acts shall include power to make regulations requiring registration officers to perform such functions in connection with the furnishing, collection and collation of particulars directed to be furnished by this Act as may be prescribed, and with respect to the performance by them of those functions.
Functions which registration officers are required to perform by virtue of any such regulations shall be deemed to be functions under the Registration Acts.
(2) In section twenty-nine of the Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1836 (which section, as amended by section thirty-one of the Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1874 , and by section seven of the Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1926 , determines certain fees payable to registration officers in respect of the registration of births, still-births, and deaths) for the words ‘one shilling’ there shall be substituted the words ‘one shilling and five pence.’
Subsection (1) of section eight of the Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1926, shall cease to have effect.
4 Penalties.
(1) If any person—
(a ) refuses or neglects to furnish in accordance with this Act any information which he is required by this Act to furnish; or
(b ) in furnishing any such information...
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