S.I. No. 552/2020 - Civil Registration (Births, Deaths, Marriages and Civil Partnerships) (Fees) Regulations 2020

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of 1st December, 2020.

I, HEATHER HUMPHREYS, Minister for Social Protection in exercise of the powers conferred on me by sections 3 (adapted by the Civil Registration (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order 2007 ( S.I. No. 831 of 2007 )), 25 , 46 (amended by section 9 of the Marriage Act 2015 (No. 35 of 2015)), 61 (amended by section 27 of the Civil Registration (Amendment) Act 2014 (No. 34 of 2014)), 62 and 67 (amended by section 30 of the Civil Registration (Amendment) Act 2014 (No. 34 of 2014)) of the Civil Registration Act 2004 (No. 3 of 2004), hereby make the following Regulations:

Citation

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Civil Registration (Births, Deaths, Marriages and Civil Partnerships) (Fees) Regulations 2020.

Commencement

2. These Regulations come into operation on the 20^th day of November 2020.

Interpretation

3. In these Regulations—

“Principal Act” means Civil Registration Act 2004 (No. 3 of 2004);

“register” has the meaning assigned to it in section 13 of the Principal Act.

Prescribed fees for copies or extracts of entries in registers

4. (1) The prescribed fee payable in accordance with sections 61(1)(b) and 61(2)(b) of the Principal Act for each certified copy or certified extract of an entry in a register of—

(a) births,

(b) marriages,

(c) civil partnerships, or

(d) deaths

shall be the amount set out in column (2) of the First Schedule to these Regulations, opposite reference 1 in column (1) other than as set out in Regulation 4(2) of these Regulations.

(2) (a) The prescribed fee payable in accordance with sections 61(1)(b) and 61(2)(b) of the Principal Act for each certified copy or certified extract of an entry in a register of deaths shall be the amount set out in column (2) of the First Schedule to these Regulations, opposite reference 2 in column (1), at the time of registration only and where the deceased was less than 12 months of age on the date of death.

(b) The prescribed fee payable in accordance with sections 61(1)(b) and 61(2)(b) of the Principal Act for each certified copy or certified extract of an entry in a register of births shall be the amount set out in column (2) of the First Schedule to these Regulations, opposite reference 2 in column (1), at the time of registration only and where the deceased was less than 12 months of age on the date of death and the birth and the death are registered at the same time.

(3) The prescribed fee payable in accordance with section 62(2)(b) of the Principal Act for each certified copy or certified extract of an entry in a register of stillbirths shall be the amount set out in column (2) of the First Schedule to these Regulations, opposite reference 3 in column (1).

(4) The prescribed fee payable in accordance with sections 61(1)(b) and 61(2)(b) of the Principal Act for each uncertified copy of an entry in a register of—

(a) births,

(b) marriages,

(c) civil partnerships, or

(d) deaths

shall be the amount set out in column (2) of the First Schedule to these Regulations, opposite reference 4 in column (1).

Prescribed fee for authentication of copies of entries in registers

5. The prescribed fee payable for the authentication of a certified copy or certified extract of an entry in a register of—

(a) births,

(b) marriages,

(c) civil partnerships, or

(d) deaths

shall be the amount set out in column (2) of the First Schedule to these Regulations, opposite reference 5 in column (1).

Prescribed fee for searches of index to register

6. The prescribed fee payable in accordance with sections 61(1)(a) and 61(2)(a) of the Principal Act for each search of the index to any of the registers specified in Regulation 4(1) shall—

(a) where the period of time within the search dates specified for that search is 5 years or less, be the amount set out in column (2) of the First Schedule to these Regulations, opposite reference 6 in column (1), and

(b) where the period of time within the search dates specified for that search is greater than 5 years and the time taken to conduct that search does not exceed 7 consecutive hours, be the amount set out in column (2) of the First Schedule to these Regulations, opposite reference 7 in column (1).

Prescribed fee for registration or alteration of forename of child

7. The prescribed fee payable in accordance with section 25(1) of the Principal Act for the registration, change, alteration or addition of a forename of a child in the register of births shall be the amount set out in column (2) of the First Schedule to these Regulations, opposite reference 8 in column (1).

Prescribed fee for notification of intention to marry

8. The fee prescribed for—

(a) the notification of the intention to marry, in accordance with section 46(3) of the Principal Act, shall be the amount set out in column (2) of the First Schedule to these Regulations, opposite reference 9 in column (1), or

(b) the notification of the intention to marry in accordance with section 46(1)(a)(i)(II) of the Principal Act, shall be the amount set out in column (2) of the First Schedule to these Regulations, opposite reference 10 in column (1).

9. The prescribed fee payable in accordance with section 67(1A)(a), where the age, civil status or death of a person is required to be proved by or under an enactment, shall be the amount set out in column (2) of the First Schedule to these Regulations, opposite reference 11 in column (1).

10. In accordance with section 67(1A)(b), an enactment by or under which it is required that age, civil status, or death is proved, is prescribed in the Second Schedule to these Regulations.

Revocations

11. The following Regulations are revoked—

Civil Registration (Births, Deaths, Marriages and Civil Partnerships) (Fees) (No. 2) Regulations 2016 ( S.I. No. 605 of 2016 ).

FIRST SCHEDULE

SECOND SCHEDULE

Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005 (as amended)

GIVEN under my Official Seal,

26 November, 2020.

HEATHER HUMPHREYS,

Minister for Social Protection.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Instrument and does not purport to be a legal interpretation.)

These Regulations set the fees required to be paid for—

• obtaining copies or extracts of entries in the registers of births, deaths, marriages or civil partnerships

• obtaining copies or extracts from the register of stillbirths,

• obtaining copies or extracts in the register of deaths where the deceased is less than 12 months of age on the date of death,

• obtaining copies or extracts in the register of births where the deceased is less than 12 months of age on the date of death and the birth and death are registered simultaneously,

• the authentication of copies of entries in these registers,

• searching the index of these registers,

• registration or alteration of the forename of a child in the register of births,

• the notification of the intention to marry, and

• the notification of the intention to marry when in a subsisting civil partnership.