Superintendent Registrar

Superintendent Registrar, an officer who superin-tends the registers of births, deaths, and marriages. There was one in every poor law union in England and Wales. The office was filled as of right by the clerk to the guardians of the union, if he was duly qualified and accepted it. He is now a salaried officer in every registration district, with a registrar in every approved sub-district appointed by the local authority (replacing the guardians); the authorities are county and county boroughs, and, in London, common council, and metropolitan borough councils [(English) Loc. Gov. Act, 1929 (19 & 20 Geo. 5, c. 17)]. They were under the super-vision of the Registrar-General and (now) of the Ministry of Health. See Births and Deaths Registration Acts, 1836 to 1929.