General Register Office and Office of Population Censuses and Surveys: Registration...

RG 64

1954-1988

This series contains registration officers' handbooks of instructions issued for their guidance.

The Handbook is divided into several sections:

• 1) preliminary, containing regulations, amendments and interpretation of the regulations
• 2) the Registration Service, relating to duties, districts, conditions of service, offices, stores
• 3) registers and indexes: instructions
• 4) registration of births
• 5) re-registration of births of legitimated persons
• 6) adoption of children
• 7) registration of still-births
• 8) disposal of bodies of still-born children
• 9) registration of deaths
• 10) disposal of bodies of deceased persons
• 11) marriages
• 12) correction of errors
• 13) information and returns for statistical purposes
• 14) quarterly copies
• 15) searches and certificates
• 16) miscellaneous returns
• 17) accounting
• 18) offences and appendices containing copies of the prescribed forms and specimen entries in the registers.

The handbook was first issued in 1927 but a copy has not survived. The first handbook in this series is dated 1954 and thereafter there appears to be a copy of each revision, which was usually brought about by the introduction of new and revised regulations.

Public Record(s)

English

• General Register Office, Registration Division, 1836-1970
• Office of Population Censuses and Surveys, Registration Division, 1970-1996

5 file(s)

Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated

Topics

Population

Children

Census

The Registrar and his staff are appointed by the local registration authority and are deemed to be employees of that authority. The registrar's functions however are laid down in Acts of Parliament and regulations made under these acts. In exercising these functions he is subject to such instructions and directions as the registrar general may give and the registration officers' handbook contains a series of instructions issued for the guidance of registration officers.