Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Special Provisions) Act 1957

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1957 c. 58


Registration of Births, Deaths andMarriages (Special Provisions) Act , 1957

(5 & 6 Eliz. 2) CHAPTER 58

An Act to provide for the registration of births, deaths and marriages occurring out of the United Kingdom among members of the armed forces and certain other persons, or occurring on board certain ships or aircraft; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.

Be it enacted by the Queen'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:—

S-1 Records of deaths, births and marriages among armed forces and service civilians and their families overseas.

1 Records of deaths, births and marriages among armed forces and service civilians and their families overseas.

(1) Her Majesty may by Order in Council provide for the keeping of records of deaths and births occurring, and marriages solemnised, outside the United Kingdom among, or among the families of—

(a ) members of Her Majesty's naval, military or air forces, or

(b ) persons serving Her Majesty in, or otherwise employed in any capacity connected with, Her Majesty's naval, military or air forces, or persons belonging to or employed by any organisation concerned with the welfare of members of those forces.

(2) An Order in Council under this section may provide—

(a ) for the transmission of certified copies of any such records to the Registrar General for England and Wales, and

(b ) for the transmission by the said Registrar General in such cases as may be specified in the Order of extracts from such certified copies to the Registrar General of Births, Deaths and Marriages in Scotland or the Registrar General for Northern Ireland.

(3) An entry in a record kept under an Order in Council under this section which relates to, or to the family of, a person of any description specified in paragraph (b ) of subsection (1) of this section shall not be questioned on the ground that that person did not fall within any more particular description contained in the Order.

(4) After the commencement of this Act no further entry shall be made under the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Army) Act, 1879 (which, as amended under the Air Force (Constitution) Act, 1917 , provides for the recording of deaths, births and marriages of members of Her Majesty's military or air forces or their families overseas), in any register kept under that Act and an Order in Council under this section may provide for the transmission of any such registers to the Registrar General for England and Wales and for the transmission by him of certified copies of entries in such registers to the Registrar General of Births, Deaths and Marriages in Scotland or the Registrar General for Northern Ireland.

(5) In this section references to a person's family shall include references to any relative, dependant or servant ordinarily living with him.

S-2 Records of deaths and births on board Her Majesty's ships and service aircraft.

2 Records of deaths and births on board Her Majesty's ships and service aircraft.

(1) Her Majesty may by Order in Council provide for the keeping of records—

(a ) of deaths and births occurring in any part of the world on board ships belonging to Her Majesty, and

(b ) of deaths and births occurring in any part of the world on aircraft belonging to Her Majesty, or any other aircraft not registered in the United Kingdom but for the time being employed for the purposes of Her Majesty's forces, and

(c ) of the death outside the United Kingdom of any person who, being a traveller on such an aircraft, is killed on the journey in consequence of an accident.

(2) An Order in Council under this section may provide—

(a ) for the transmission of certified copies of any such records to the Registrar General for England and Wales, and

(b ) for the transmission by the said Registrar General in such cases as may be specified in the Order of extracts from such certified copies to the Registrar General of Births, Deaths and Marriages in Scotland or the Registrar General for Northern Ireland.

(3) After the commencement of this Act no further entry shall be made under subsection (1) of section thirty-seven of the Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1874 (which provides for the registration of deaths and births on board Her Majesty's ships), and an Order in Council under this section may provide for the transmission of certified copies of entries made under that subjection to any of the said Registrars General.

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