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    1. Re: 100 Year Limit
    2. Dave Mayall
    3. On Tue, 6 Nov 2001 19:26:29 -0000, you wrote: >I am not entirely 'with it' having to look after an elderly relative. >However, I seem to remember one past thread in which someone asserted that >the Law required the Registrar to allow any person to examine the register >entry of any event if that person could show reasonable cause. Indeed, I >further remember that this right to examine the registers was 'suspended' my >some temporary ministerial edict on the basis of security. This is an often quoted "fact", but only applies to registers in the custody of the Registrar. In other words *current registers. Once a register is full, and deposited with the Superintendant Registrar, there is no right of access. -- Dave Mayall

    11/06/2001 11:57:08