Registration of Births and Deaths (High Commissioners) Regulations 1964
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1964/1967 |
1964 No. 1967
REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS, DEATHS,
MARRIAGES, ETC.
ABROAD
The Registration of Births and Deaths (High Commissioners) Regulations 19647thDecember 1964
1stJanuary 1965
In the exercise of powers conferred upon me by section 29(1) of the British Nationality Act 1948(a), section 4(1) of the British Nationality Act 1958(b), and all other powers enabling me in that behalf, I hereby, with the consent of the Treasury, make the following regulations:—
1.—(1) These regulations may be cited as the Registration of Births and Deaths (High Commissioners) Regulations 1964 and shall come into operation on 1st January 1965.
(2) In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires :—
" country " means a country for the time being specified in section 1(3) of the British Nationality Act 1948 ; " registration officer " means an officer appointed in accordance with Regulation 2;
" duly certified and sealed " means signed under the hand of a registration officer and impressed with the seal of the High Commissioner for the United Kingdom in a country;
" register " means the register of births or the register of deaths, as the case may be, as prescribed in Regulations 3 and 4.
(3) The Interpretation Act 1889(c) shall apply to the interpretation of these regulations as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.
2. The High Commissioner for the United Kingdom in a country shall, where applicable, appoint one or more members of his staff to be a registration officer to whom shall be assigned the duty of maintaining the registers.
Registers of Births and Deaths
3.—(1) In each country in which the Secretary of State has so authorised there shall be maintained registers of births in which shall be recorded the birth within the country of a person in respect of whom a registration officer has received an application together with the prescribed fee and is satisfied that :—
(a) he is a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies ; or
(b) he is a British subject without citizenship who intends to make his ordinary place of residence in the United Kingdom, a Colony or Protectorate; or
(a) 11 & 12 Geo. 6. c. 56.
(b) 6 & 7 Eliz. 2. c. 10.
(c) 52 & 53 Vict. c. 63.
(c) his father or, in the case of an illegitimate person, his mother, is, or would but for his death have been, a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies ; or
(d) the circumstances specified in section 1(2) of the British Nationality and Status of Aliens Act 1943(a) exist in his case.
(2) Registers of births shall be in form A set out in the Schedule hereto.
4.—(1) In each country in which the Secretary of State has so authorised, there shall be maintained registers of deaths in which shall be recorded the death within the country of a person in respect of whom a registration officer has received an application together with the prescribed fee and is satisfied that at the time of death that :—
(a) he was a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies ; or
(b) he was a British subject without citizenship ; or
(c) he was a British subject by virtue of section 2 of the British Nationality Act 1948 ; or
(d) he was a minor at the time of his death and his father or, in the case of a person born illegitimate, his mother was, or would but for his death have been, a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies ; or
(e) where such death occurred before 1st January 1949, he would, but for his death, have become a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies or British subject without citizenship.
(2) Registers of deaths shall be in form B as set out in the Schedule hereto.
Registration of Births and Deaths
5.—(1) On receiving an application for the registration of a birth or of a death, a registration officer shall record, as precisely as possible, in the register those particulars for...
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