An Act to suspend for a limited Time the
Operation of Two Acts passed in the last Session of Parliament, for the
registering Births, Deaths, and Marriages in England, and for Marriages in
England. 1837 (7
William IV) CHAPTER 1.
[
6 & 7 W. 4 c.
.86 6 & 7 W. 4.
c. 85
Acts shall be
constructed as to certain Dates. Proviso. |
‘Whereas
Two Acts were passed in the last Session of Parliament, intituled
An Act for registering Births, Deaths, and Marriages in England, and An
Act for Marriages in England; and by reason of the Provisions therein
contained the said Acts would come into force on the First Day of March
now next ensuring; but it is expedient that the full Operation of the same
should be further delayed:’ Be it therefore 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, That, subject to the Proviso herein-after contained,
the said Two Acts respectively shall be constructed as if the Words “last day
of June” had been inserted in the said Acts instead of the Words
“First Say of March”, in every Place where the last-mentioned Words
are fund in the said Acts respectively: Provided always that the Registrar of
every Diocese shall, within Fifteen Days after the First Day of March now
next ensuring, make out and send, through the Post Office, directed to the
Registrar General of Births, Deaths, and Marriages at his office, a List of
all Chapels belonging to the Church of England within that Diocese wherein
Marriages may be solemnized according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the
Church of England, as if this Act had not been passed. |
First Quarterly Deliveries
of Copies of Registers, etc to Be October. |
And
be it enacted, That notwithstanding any thing in the said Acts contained, or
either of them, the first certified Copies of all the Entries of Births and
Deaths, or first Certificates that there has been no Birth or Death
registered in the Register Book to be kept by any Registrar of Births and
Deaths, and the first certified Copy of all the Entries of Marriages, or
first Certificate that there has been no Marries entered in the Register Book
kept by any Rector, Vicar, Curate, Registrar of Marriages, Registering Office
of the Society of Friends, or Secretary of a Synagogue, shall be made and
given to the Superintendent Registrar in the Month of October now next
ensuring, and shall contain and certify all the Entries made up to the Time
at which the same shall be so certified to be a true Copy, or that there have
been no Entries up to that Time, as the Case may be. |
Act may be Amended or Repealed
this Session |
III. And be it enacted, That this Act may be
altered, amended or repealed by any Act passed in this Session of Parliament. |
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