Why is the Regulation Being Reviewed?

1. WHY IS THE REGULATION BEING REVIEWED?

The Births, Deaths and Marriages, Registration Regulation 1996 (“the existing Regulation”) sets out the information required to be given to the Registrar or noted in the Register when registering births, deaths, marriages, changes of name, provisions relating to changes of sex and the fees which are charged by the Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages.

The Subordinate Legislation Act provides for Regulations to have a limited life. In most cases, regulations are automatically repealed 5 years after they are made. When a Regulation is due for repeal, the responsible agency must review the Regulation, its social and economic impacts, and the need for the Regulation, and make a decision about whether the regulation should be remade. The results of this review are required to be published in a Regulatory Impact Statement (RIS) and submissions invited from the public.

This RIS proposes that the current Regulation be remade under the regulation making power set out in section 62 of the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act 1995.