S.I. No. 377/2015 - Civil Registration (Gender Recognition) (Fees) Regulations 2015.


Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of 11th September, 2015.

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 ( S.I. No. 831 of 2007 )), 30C (inserted by section 27 of the Gender Recognition Act 2015 (No. 25 of 2015)) and 67 of the Civil Registration Act 2004 (No. 3 of 2004), hereby make the following Regulations:

Citation.

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Civil Registration (Gender Recognition) (Fees) Regulations 2015.

Commencement.

2. These Regulations come into operation on 7 September 2015.

Interpretation.

3. In these Regulations—

“Principal Act” means the Civil Registration Act 2004 (No. 3 of 2004);

“register of gender recognition” has the meaning assigned to it in section 13 of the Principal Act.

Prescribed fees for copies of entries or extracts of entries in the Register of Gender Recognition.

4. (1) The prescribed fee payable in accordance with section 30C (2) of the Principal Act for each certified copy or certified extract of an entry in the register of gender recognition shall be €20.

(2) The prescribed fee payable in accordance with section 30C (2) of the Principal Act for each uncertified copy of an entry in the register of gender recognition shall be €4.

Fee for authentication of copies of entries in the Register of Gender Recognition.

5. The fee payable for the authentication of a certified copy or certified extract of an entry in the register of gender recognition shall be €10.

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GIVEN under my Official Seal,

7 September 2015.

JOAN BURTON,

Minister for Social Protection.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Instrument and does not purport to be a legal interpretation.)

These Regulations set the fees required to be paid for—

• obtaining copies or extracts of entries in the register of gender recognition, and

• the authentication of copies of entries in the register of gender recognition,