Registration of Births and Deaths (Ireland) Act 1863
| Jurisdiction | Ireland |
| Citation | 1863 c. 11 |
| Year | 1863 |
(26 & 27 Vict.) C A P, XI.
[20th April 1863]
'WHEREAS it is expedient that a complete System of Registration of Births and Deaths should be established inIreland, as in other Parts of the United Kingdom:' 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:
Preliminary.
1 Short title.
1. This Act may be cited for all Purposes as ‘The Registration of Births and Deaths (Ireland ) Act.’
2 As to Extent of Act.
2. This Act, except as herein otherwise provided, shall extend toIreland only.
3 Interpretation of Terms.
3. The following Words and Expressions shall, in construing this Act, be taken and understood to have the Meanings hereby assigned to them, unless there be something in the Context repugnant to such Construction; (that is to say,)
‘Lord Lieutenant’ shall mean and include the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors ofIreland for the Time being:
‘Lord Lieutenant in Council’ shall mean the Lord Lieutenant by and with the Advice of Her Majesty's Privy Council inIreland:
‘Registrar General’ shall mean the Registrar General of Birth and Deaths inIreland for the Time being appointed or to be appointed under this Act, and in case of the Absence of the Registrar General shall also mean and include the Assistant Registrar General for the Time being appointed or to be appointed under this Act:
‘Occupier’ shall, for the Purposes of the Notification of Births and Deaths for Registration under this Act include the Governor, Keeper, Master, Superintendent, or other chief Resident Officer of every Gaol, Prison, or House of Correction, and of every School, Reformatory, Workhouse, Hospital, Lunatic Asylum, or other Public or Charitable Institution, and where any House is let in separate Apartments or Lodgings shall include the Person under whom such Lodgings or separate Apartments are immediately held, and any Agent or Servant of such Person residing in such House:
‘General Search’ shall mean a Search during any Number of successive Days, not exceeding Six, without stating the Object of Search:
‘Particular Search’ shall mean a Search over any Period not exceeding Five Years for any given Register of Birth or Death.
PART I.
Registrar General.
4 General Register Office to be provided, and Registrar General to be appointed.
4. The Lord Lieutenant shall cause a proper Office to be provided in the City ofDublin, to be called the ‘General Register Office,’ and shall from Time to Time appoint for the said Office a fit and competent Person to be the Registrar General of Births and Deaths in Ireland, who shall hold Office during the Pleasure of the Lord Lieutenant, and be removable by him: Provided always, that the Person who shall at the Date of the passing of this Act hold the Office of Registrar General of Marriagesunder an Act passed in the Seventh and Eighth Years of Her Majesty, Chapter Eighty-one, shall be appointed to the Office of Registrar General under this Act.
5 Seal to be provided, and certified Copies given at General Register Office to be sealed therewith.
5. The Registrar General shall cause to be made a Seal of the said General Register Office, and shall cause to be sealed or stamped therewith all certified Copies of Entries given in the said Office; and all certified Copies of Entries purporting to be sealed or stamped with the Seal of the said General Register Office (which Seal it shall not be necessary to prove) shall be admissible as Evidence in all Parts of Her Majesty's Dominions of the Birth or Death to which the same relates, without any further or other Proof of such Entry, and no certified Copy purporting to be given in the said Office shall be of any Force or Effect which is not sealed or stamped as aforesaid.
6 Power to Registrar General, with Consent, to alter Forms.
6. It shall be lawful for the Registrar General, with the Consent of the Lord Lieutenant in Council, to alter the Forms annexed to this Act, regard being always had to the Objects and Purposes of this Act, and to rendering the same more effectual; and such Alterations of Forms shall be published in theDublin Gazette, and shall thereupon be deemed to be the Forms required to be used by this Act, and shall within Fourteen Days after the same shall have been issued, be laid before both Houses of Parliament, or if Parliament shall not be then sitting within Fourteen Days after the Commencement of the then next Session.
7 Officers, Clerks, and Servants to be appointed.
7. It shall be lawful for the Lord Lieutenant (or the Registrar General, subject to the Approval of the Lord Lieutenant,) to appoint such and so many Officers, Clerks, and Servants as may from Time to Time be necessary for carrying on the Business of the General Register Office, and at pleasure to remove any of them: Provided always, that all Officers, Clerks, and Servants who may be employed in the Business of the General Register Office at the Time of the passing of this Act shall, if the Lord Lieutenant (or Registrar General, subject to the Approval of the Lord Lieutenant,) think fit, be employed in the Business of the General Register Office under this Act as if their original Appointment under the said Act of the Seventh and Eighth Years of Her Majesty had been made under the Authority of this Act.
8 Power to increase Salary of Registrar General, which is to include Remuneration for all public Duties performed by him.
8. 'Whereas the Registrar General of Marriages appointed under the said Act has been heretofore required by the Lord Lieutenant to superintend the taking of the Census inIreland, and also the annual Collection of Agricultural Statistics, and to perform other public Duties from Time to Time, in addition to those he was required to perform under the said Act, for which Duties special Remuneration has been heretofore awarded to him, in addition to the Salary received by him under the said Act; and it is expedient that in respect of such Duties and of the additional Duties he may be required to perform under this Act, or otherwise, he should be paid by Salary:' Be it enacted, That so much of the said Act of the Seventh and Eighth Years of Her Majesty, Chapter Eighty-one, as enacts that the Salary of the Registrar General shall not at any Time exceed the Sum of Eight hundred Pounds yearly shall be repealed; and it shall be lawful for the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to appoint from Time to Time the Salary of the said Registrar General, so that the same shall not at any Time exceed the Sum of One thousand Pounds.
9 Salaries to be paid out of Monies provided by Parliament.
9. The Salaries of the Officers, Clerks, and Servants, and all such Salaries and all other Expenses of carrying this Act into execution not herein otherwise provided for, shall be paid out of any Monies which may from Time to Time be provided by Parliament for that Purpose; and the Salary so to be appointed for the said Registrar General shall be deemed to include the Remuneration for all Duties which the said Registrar General is now or may hereafter be appointed or required to perform.
10 Power to appoint an Assistant Registrar General in case of Illness, &c.
10. The Registrar General shall have Power, subject to the Approval of the Lord Lieutenant, to appoint by Writing under his Hand a fit Person to act as his Assistant in case of the Illness or Absence of the Registrar General; and every such Assistant, while so acting, shall have all the Powers and Duties of the Registrar General, and be subject to all the Provisions and Penalties declared by the said Act and this Act, except that such Assistant shall not have Power to make or declare any general Rule, or to rescind or alter any Order, Regulation, or Approval signified by the Registrar General or made by the Registrar General in Writing under his Hand, or to dismiss any Person from any Office holden during the Pleasure of the Registrar General.
11 Regulations to be made for Management of Office and for Discharge of Duties of Officers.
11. The Lord Lieutenant, or the Registrar General, with his Approbation, shall and may from Time to Time make Regulations for the Management of the General Register Office, and for the Discharge of the Duties of the Registrar General, Officers, Clerks, and Servants of the said Office, and of the Superintendent Registrars and Registrars, and their Deputies herein-after mentioned, so that such Regulations be not contrary to the Provisions of this Act; and the Regulations so made and approved shall be binding on such Registrar General, Officers, Clerks, and Servants of the said Office, and on the Superintendent Registrars and Registrars, and their Deputies respectively.
12 Registrar General to furnish to Boards of Guardians Notices of Acts required to be done.
12. The Registrar General shall, in sufficient Time before the Thirty-first Day ofDecember One...
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