Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1874

Alteration of registrars districts.

21. The Registrar General, with the sanction of the Local Government Board, may from time to time, if it seem to them fit, alter the districts, of registrars by the alteration of the boundaries of districts, by the formation of new districts, or by the union of districts, and may take or cause to be taken all measures which seem to them to be necessary for carrying such alteration into effect, and such alteration shall be made and measures taken accordingly.

Where any superintendent registrar or registrar is deprived of his office or part of his emolument by such alteration, formation, or union, or by the operation of any Act now in force, compensation may be awarded to him by the like authorities and in the like manner as compensation may be awarded under the Acts relating to the relief of the poor to any officer of a union who is deprived of his office by reason of a union being dissolved or altered, and the persons by whom and funds from which such compenation is to be paid shall be determined in like manner.

Every change in the district of a registrar shall be published by advertisement or otherwise as the Local Government Board direct as being in their opinion best calculated for giving information to all persons in the district.

Every district of a registrar, whether formed before or after the commencement of this Act, shall be termed a sub-district.