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Registration for preservation. In Scotland any deed may be registered in the books of Council and Session for preservation (stamp 10s.); official extracts are equivalent to originals. See also WILLS.

Registration of Births, Deaths, and Marriages.

Ecclesiastical Registration.--The 70th Canon made in 1603 directs the churchwardens of every parish to provide a register, and the minister to enter baptisms, marriages, and burials therein; and the (English) Parochial Registers Act, 1812 (52 Geo. 3, c. 146), directs the rector, vicar, curate, or officiating minister to make and keep similar registers, the books to remain in their custody in an iron chest, and copies thereof to be transmitted annually to the registrars of each diocese. So much of this Act as related to marriages was repealed by the (English) Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1836. Consult Hubback on Succession, pp. 469 et seq.

Civil Registration.--A general registry office was established by the (English) Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1836 (6 & 7 Wm. 4, c. 86), by which district registrars are directed to send copies of registers of births, deaths, and marriages to superintendent registrars, who forward them to the Registrar-General. This Act was amended by the (English) Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1837 (7 Will. 4 & 1 Vict. c. 22), and by the Marriage and Registration Act, 1856 (19 & 20 Vict. c. 119). The duty of registering births is thrown on parents and others, and the duty of registering deaths is thrown on relatives and others by the Births and Deaths Registration Acts (English) (37 & 38 Vict. c. 88 and 5 & 6 Geo. 5, c. 64); the (English) Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1926 (16 & 17 Geo. 5, c. 48), as amended by the (English) Public Health Act, 1936, and the (English) Registration (Births, stillbirths, Deaths and Marriages) Consolidated Regulations, 1927 (S. R. & O., 1927, No. 485).

The registration of births, deaths and marriages occurring outside the United Kingdom among officers and soldiers in the army and their families is regulated by the (English) Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Army) Act, 1879 (42 & 43 Vict. c. 8); and see BIRTHS, MARRIAGES AND DEATHS.