Section 124 | Provisions relating to age, death and marriage
From legislation.gov.uk
26 October 2026
(1)Regulations made by the Registrar General under section 20 of the Registration Service Act 1953 or section 54 of the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Scotland) Act 1965 may provide for the furnishing by superintendent registrars and registrars, subject to the payment of such fee as may be prescribed by the regulations, of such information for the purposes—F1
(a)of the provisions of the Contributions and Benefits Act to which this section applies;
(aa)of the provisions of Parts I and II of the Jobseekers Act 1995;F2
(ab)of the provisions of the State Pension Credit Act 2002;F3
(ac)of the provisions of Part 1 of the Welfare Reform Act 2007; ...F4F5
(ad)of the provisions of Part 1 of the Welfare Reform Act 2012;F6
(ae)of the provisions of Part 4 of that Act;F7
(af)of the provisions of Part 1 of the Pensions Act 2014; andF8
(ag)of section 30 of the Pensions Act 2014; andF9
(b)of the provisions of this Act so far as they have effect in relation to matters arising under those provisions,
including copies of extracts from the registers in their custody (or in the case of marriages converted from civil partnerships, copies or extracts from the register of conversions), as may be so prescribed.
(2)This section applies to the following provisions of the Contributions and Benefits Act—
(a)Parts I to VI except section 108;
(b)Part VII, so far as it relates to income support ... ;F10
(c)Part VIII, so far as it relates to any social fund payment such as is mentioned in section 138(1)(a) or (2);
(d)Part IX;
(e)Part XI; and
(f)Part XII.
(3)Where the age, marriage or death of a person is required to be ascertained or proved for the purposes mentioned in subsection (1) above, any person—
(a)on presenting to the custodian of the register under the enactments relating to the registration of births, marriages and deaths in which particulars of the birth, marriage or death (as the case may be) of the first-mentioned person are entered, a duly completed requisition in writing in that behalf; and
(b)on payment of the appropriate fee in England and Wales and a fee of £10.00 in Scotland,F11F12
shall be entitled to obtain a copy, certified under the hand of the custodian, of the entry of those particulars.
(3A)Where it is required to be ascertained or proved for the purposes mentioned in subsection (1) above, that a civil partnership has been converted into a marriage, any person—F13
(a)on presenting to the superintendent registrar in whose district the conversion took place, a duly completed requisition in writing in that behalf; andF13
(b)on payment of the appropriate fee;F13F14
is entitled to obtain a copy, certified under the hand of the superintendent registrar, of the entry relating to that marriage in the register of conversions.
(4)Requisitions for the purposes of subsections (3) and (3A) above shall be in such form and contain such particulars as may from time to time be specified by the Registrar General, and suitable forms of requisition shall, on request, be supplied without charge by superintendent registrars and registrars.F15
(5)In the section—
(a)as it applies to England and Wales—F16F17
“the appropriate fee” means the fee payable to the registrar or superintendent registrar for a certified copy of an entry in the register concerned by virtue of section 38A of the Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953, section 71A of the Marriage Act 1949 or section 9 of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013.
“register of conversions” means the register of conversions of civil partnerships into marriages kept by the Registrar General in accordance with section 9 of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 and regulations made under that section;
“Registrar General” means the Registrar General for England and Wales; and
“superintendent registrar” and “registrar” mean a superintendent registrar or, as the case may be, registrar for the purposes of the enactments relating to the registration of births, deaths and marriages; and
(b)as it applies to Scotland—
“Registrar General” means the Registrar General of Births, Deaths and Marriages for Scotland;
“registrar” means a district registrar, senior registrar or assistant registrar for the purposes of the enactments relating to the registration of births, deaths and marriages.