The Births, Deaths, Marriages and Civil Partnerships Records Regulations 2016

These Regulations provide that the information contained in an entry in the Registrar General’s records of births, deaths and marriages (including where a civil partnership has been converted into a marriage) may be provided, upon request, to a person applying via the website www.gov.uk, in portable document format. They provide for the Registrar General to charge a fee for this service and for that fee to differ depending on whether the record is held in a digital or other format and whether the applicant requests a standard or expedited service.