The General Register Office has just introduced new charges for ordering birth, marriage and death certificates which will take effect from Tuesday 6th April 2010. For more information view the GRO’s press release.
The General Register Office has just introduced new charges for ordering birth, marriage and death certificates which will take effect from Tuesday 6th April 2010. For more information view the GRO’s press release.
I really do feel that the @30% increase in the standard fee for ordering certificates online, is totally unjustified. I would be interested to know how long it takes, for a clerk in the records office, to make a copy of the record, if they are given all the reference information. To add insult to injury, they actually REDUCE the fee where no reference information is given, it must surely take MORE effort to produce a certificate in this case.
I agree - I think the charge for when no reference information has been given should go up not down - the people who have made the effort to find the reference information should not be penalised and the ones without references rewarded!