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Recites the Act of 15 & 16 Vict. c. 36.
Registrar General to allow Searches to be made, and give Extracts from the Returns of certified Places of Worship made to him thereto, on Payment of specified Fees.
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XXIV. ‘And whereas, in pursuance of an Act passed in the Session holden in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Years of Her Majesty, Chapter Thirty-six, intituled An Act to amend the Law relating to the certifying and registering Places of Religious Worship of Protestant Dissenters, the Registrars of the several Dioceses and Archdeaconries, and the Clerks of the Peace of the several Counties, Ridings, Divisions, Cities, and Boroughs in England and Wales, did, in the Year One thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, make and transmit, as thereby required, to the Registrar General of Births, Deaths, and Marriages in England, duly verified Returns of all Places within the Limits of their respective Jurisdictions which previous to and up to the Time of the passing of the last-mentioned Act had been certified according to Law and registered or recorded as Places of Meeting for Religious Worship: And whereas the total Number of such Places of Meeting so returned to the said Registrar General pursuant to the Provisions of the said Act is Fifty-four thousand eight hundred and four, and it is expedient that, for facilitating the Proof of such Places having been duly certified and registered or recorded as aforesaid, the Registrar General should be empowered by Law to allow Searches to be made in the said Returns, and to give certified Copies thereof and Extracts therefrom:’ Be it further enacted as follows:
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The Registrar General, on Payment to him of the several Fees herein-after mentioned, shall allow Searches to be made in the Returns so made to him as aforesaid, and shall give to any Person demanding the same a certified Copy thereof or Extract therefrom with respect to any Place of Meeting for Religious Worship contained therein; and every such certified Copy or Extract shall be sealed or stamped with the Seal of the General Register Office, and when so sealed or stamped as aforesaid, if tendered in Evidence upon any Trial or other judicial Proceeding in any Civil or Criminal Court, shall be received as Evidence of the Place of Meeting therein mentioned or described having been at the Time in that Behalf therein stated duly certified and registered or recorded as by Law required, without any further or other Proof of the same; and the Registrar General shall be entitled to demand and receive for every Search in the said Returns extending over a Period of not more than Ten Years the Sum of One Shilling, and for every additional Period of Ten Years the Sum of Sixpence, and the further Sum of Two Shillings and Sixpence for every single certified Copy or Extract.
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