S.I. No. 148/1935 - Northern Ireland Births Register Regulations, 1935.

STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS, 1935. 1935. No. 148.

NORTHERN IRELAND BIRTHS REGISTER REGULATIONS, 1935.

WHEREAS it is enacted by sub-section (1) of Section 25 of the Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act, 1935 (No. 13 of 1935), that the Minister for External Affairs shall cause to be kept a register to be called and known and in the said Act referred to as the Northern Ireland Births Register.

AND WHEREAS it is enacted by sub-section (2) of the said Section 25 that the birth in Northern Ireland of a child whose father is, on the day of such birth, a citizen of Saorstát Eireann shall be registrable, in accordance with regulations made under the said Section 25, in the Northern Ireland Births Register.

AND WHEREAS it is enacted by sub-section (6) of the said Section 25 that the Minister for External Affairs may by order make regulations relating to all or any of the following matters in respect of the Northern Ireland Births Register, that is to say:—

( a ) the form of such register and the officer by whom and the place and manner generally in which such register is to be kept;

( b ) the persons by whom and the manner in which births may be registered in such register;

( c ) the particulars to be entered in such register in respect of every birth registered therein;

( d ) the inspection of such register by members of the public;

( e ) the furnishing to members of the public of copies of entries in such register and the authentication of such copies;

( f ) with the consent of the Minister for Finance, the fees (if any) to be charged for the registration of births in such register, for the inspection of entries in such register, and for copies of entries therein.

NOW, THEREFORE, the Minister for External Affairs in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sub-section (6) of Section 25 of the Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act, 1935 (No. 13 of 1935), and of every and any other power him in this behalf enabling hereby, with the consent, in so far as these Regulations relate to fees, of the Minister for Finance testified by his official seal annexed hereto, orders and makes the following Regulations, that is to say:—

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Northern Ireland Births Register Regulations, 1935.

2. The Interpretation Act, 1923 (No. 46 of 1923), applies to the interpretation of these Regulations in like manner as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of the Oireachtas.

3. In these Regulations the expression "the registrar" means the Secretary to the Department of External Affairs.

4. The Northern Ireland births register shall be in the form set forth in the Schedule hereto.

5. The Northern Ireland births register shall be kept by the registrar in the office of the Department of External Affairs.

6.—(1) The birth of any child whose birth is registrable under sub-section (2) of Section 25 of the Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act, 1935 , in the Northern Ireland births register shall at the request of either parent of such child or of any person present at the birth of such child or having charge of such child and upon the production of satisfactory evidence be registered in the Northern Ireland births register and may be so registered by the registrar or by any officer of the Minister of External Affairs duly authorised in that behalf by the registrar.

(2) Every person authorised by or under this regulation to register births in the Northern Ireland births register shall, after entering in such register the particulars required by these regulations to be entered therein, sign such register in the appropriate place.

7. The particulars to be entered in the Northern Ireland births register in respect of every birth registered therein shall be the particulars signified at the head of the respective columns of the form of register set out in the Schedule hereto.

8.—(1) The fee to be charged for the registration in the Northern Ireland births register of the birth of a child whose right to natural-born citizenship of Saorstát Eireann is not conditional upon registration therein shall be two shillings and sixpence.

(2) The fee to be charged for the registration in the Northern Ireland births register of the birth of a child whose right to natural-born citizenship of Saorstát Eireann is under sub-section (2) of Section 25 of the Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act, 1935 , conditional upon registration therein shall be one pound.

9. Any person may upon payment of a fee of one shilling inspect the Northern Ireland births register at the office of the Department of External Affairs during the hours at which that office is open for the transaction of business.

10.—(1) Any person at whose request the birth of any child has been registered in the Northern Ireland births register may at the date of such registration obtain a copy of the relevant entry upon payment of a fee of one shilling.

(2) Any person may obtain a copy of any entry in the Northern Ireland births register at any time subsequent to the date on which such entry is made upon payment of a fee of two shillings and sixpence.

(3) Every such copy of an entry in the Northern Ireland births register shall be authenticated as follows, that is to say, such copy shall be certified to be a true copy of such entry by a person authorised by or under these Regulations to register births in the Northern Ireland births register:

Given under the Official Seal of the Minister for

External Affairs.

This 30th day of May, 1935.

J. P. WALSHE,

Secretary,

Department of External Affairs.

The Minister for Finance consents to the foregoing regulations in so far as the same relate to fees.

Given under the Official Seal of the Minister for

Finance, this 1st day of June, 1935.

J. J. McELLIGOTT,

Secretary,

Department of Finance.

SCHEDULE.

NORTHERN IRELAND BIRTHS REGISTER.