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Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in |
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“Iris Oifigiúil” of 25th January, 2013. |
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I, JOAN BURTON, 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 ( 25 , 46 , 59B (inserted by section 16 of the 61 , 62 and 67 of the Civil Registration Act 2004 (No. 3 of 2004), hereby make the following Regulations: |
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Citation. |
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1. These Regulations may be cited as the Civil Registration (Births, Deaths, Marriages and Civil Partnerships) (Fees) Regulations 2013. |
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Commencement. |
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2. These Regulations come into operation on 23 January 2013. |
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Interpretation. |
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3. In these Regulations- |
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“Principal Act” means Civil Registration Act 2004 (No. 3 of 2004); |
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“register” has the meaning assigned to it in section 13 of the Principal Act. |
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Prescribed fees for copies or extracts of entries in registers. |
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4. (1) The prescribed fee payable in accordance with sections 61(1)(b), 61(2)(b) and 62(2)(b) of the Principal Act for each certified copy or certified extract of an entry in a register of- |
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(a) births, |
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(b) stillbirths, |
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(c) marriages, |
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(d) civil partnerships, or |
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(e) deaths, |
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shall be the amount set out in column (2) of the Schedule to these Regulations, opposite reference 1 in column (1). |
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(2) 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- |
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(a) births, |
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(b) marriages, |
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(c) civil partnerships, or |
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(d) deaths, |
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shall be the amount set out in column (2) of the Schedule to these Regulations, opposite reference 2 in column (1). |
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Fee for authentication of copies of entries in registers. |
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5. The fee payable for the authentication of a certified copy or certified extract of an entry in a register of- |
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(a) births, |
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(b) stillbirths, |
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(c) marriages, |
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(d) civil partnerships, or |
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(e) deaths, |
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shall be the amount set out in column (2) of the Schedule to these Regulations, opposite reference 3 in column (1). |
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Prescribed fee for searches of index to register. |
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6. The prescribed fee payable in accordance with section 61(1)(a) of the Principal Act for each search of the index to any of the registers specified in Regulation 4(2) shall- |
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(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 Schedule to these Regulations, opposite reference 4 in column (1), and |
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(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 Schedule to these Regulations, opposite reference 5 in column (1). |
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Prescribed fee for registration or alteration of forename of child. |
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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 Schedule to these Regulations, opposite reference 6 in column (1). |
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Prescribed fee for notification of intention to marry or enter into a civil partnership. |
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8. The fee prescribed for- |
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(a) the notification of the intention to marry, in accordance with section 46(3) of the Principal Act, or |
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(b) the notification of the intention to enter into a civil partnership, in accordance with section 59B(6) of the Principal Act, |
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shall be the amount set out in column (2) of the Schedule to these Regulations, opposite reference 7 in column (1). |
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Revocations. |
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9. The following Regulations are revoked- |
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(a) the Civil Registration (Births and Deaths) (Fees) Regulations 2005 ( S.I. No. 769 of 2005 ), |
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(b) the Civil Registration (Marriages) (Fees) Regulations 2007 ( S.I. No. 737 of 2007 ), and |
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(c) the Civil Registration (Civil Partnerships) (Fees) Regulations 2010 ( S.I. No. 669 of 2010 ). |
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Regulations 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 |
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SCHEDULE |
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GIVEN under my Official Seal, |
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22 January 2013. |
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JOAN BURTON, |
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Minister for Social Protection. |
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EXPLANATORY NOTE |
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(This note is not part of the Instrument and does not purport to be a legal interpretation.) |
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These Regulations set the fees required to be paid for- |
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• obtaining copies or extracts of entries in the registers of births, deaths, marriages etc, |
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• the authentication of copies of entries in these registers, |
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• searching the index of these registers, |
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• registration or alteration of the forename of a child in the register of births, and |
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• the notification of the intention to marry or enter into a civil partnership. |
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These Regulations also bring the various provisions relating to fees payable in relation to the above matters into a single consolidated Regulation. |