I recently emailed the ODPC to see if they had available a template for the
notification of Registrar of Bs, Ms and Ds!
They confirmed to me that a separate notification (from the Council) was
needed, but we had to decide whether we wished to notify on behalf of
EACH registrar (we have 7), the Superindendant Registrar, or the
Responsible Officer within the Council - whosoever we decided was
'responsible' for the information. Yep, useful as ever!!!
Anyway, I've pretty much decided to register (sorry, notify) the
Superindendant Registrar as I'm told he has overall responsibility for the
7 registrars (are you following this?). I just thought I'd have a look on the
ODPC website and see what others have done.
The Register found 29 matches on my search for 'Registrar of Births
Marriages and Deaths' - would have thought there should be more than
that throughout the land - but, then, we're not one of them ourselves,
yet!!!
The point is that (let's hear it for templates) not a single one of 'em looks
the same as any other. I haven't gone through each in minute detail, but
the purpose registered, even the number of purposes registered varied
enormously. Amongst those with one purpose, the favourite appears to
be 'Licencing and Registration', but others included, 'Ancilliaary and
Suppost Functions', 'Information and Database Administration', 'Other
Central Government', 'Other Local Government', and the purpose 'Method
2'.
Some had 2 purposes, some 3 and some 4!! As you can imagine, the
other classes varied widely as well.
Does this seem like (another example of) a total farce to you?!!
Presumably, if and when they get a template up and running, there
should be more conformity - but it seems totally ludicrous that we are all
asked to conform to the same set of rules, but can do so in such a
variety of ways and no-one seems to notice (or care)!!
Dave Uppington
South Gloucs Council
The views expressed are my own and not necessarily those of the
council!!
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