Statutory Instruments
2005 No. 3186
REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS, DEATHS, MARRIAGES, ETC.
The Service Departments Registers (Amendment) Order 2005
Made
15th November 2005
Coming into force
7th December 2005
At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 15th day of November 2005
Present,
The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council
Her Majesty, in pursuance of the powers conferred upon Her by sections 1, 2, 3, 5 and 6 of the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Special Provisions) Act 1957( 1 ) , is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:
Citation, commencement, interpretation
1. —(1) This Order may be cited as the Service Departments Registers (Amendment) Order 2005 and shall come into force on 7 th December 2005.
(2) In this Order “the 1959 Order” means the Service Departments Registers Order 1959( 2 ).
Amendment of the 1959 Order
2. The 1959 Order shall be amended as follows—
(1) In article 1(a) for the words “and marriages solemnised” there shall be substituted “marriages solemnised and civil partnerships formed”.
(2) In article 2(1) for the words “births and marriages” there shall be substituted “births, marriages and civil partnerships”.
(3) In article 2(2) for the words “births and marriages” there shall be substituted “births, marriages and civil partnerships”.
(4) In article 3(1) for the words “birth or marriage” there shall be substituted “birth, marriage or civil partnership”.
(5) In article 3(4)(c) there shall be inserted, immediately after sub-paragraph (c):
“ (d) in relation to a civil partnership, either party to the civil partnership. ”
(6) In article 3(5) for the words “birth or marriage” there shall be substituted the words “birth, marriage or civil partnership”.
(7) In article 3(6) in the two places in which the phrase “death, birth or marriage” is used there shall be substituted the phrase “death, birth, marriage or civil partnership”.
(8) In article 7(5) for the words “the death or marriage” there shall be substituted “death, marriage or civil partnership”.
A. K. Galloway
Clerk of the Privy Council
S.I 1959/406 amended by S.I 1963/1624 , section 1(3) of the Defence (Transfer of Functions) Act 1964 (c. 15) and S.I 1988/1295 and S.I. 2002/3122 .