In message <[email protected]>, Jon Green <[email protected]> writes: >On 07/02/2015 00:08, Iain Archer wrote: >> I've just seen this, which I presume will be welcome news, on the SoG >> website: >> >> "The Society of Genealogists is delighted to announce that the >> Government has accepted an amendment to the Deregulation Bill currently >> going before the House of Lords that allows for the publication of >> information from Birth, Marriage and Death Certificates in England and >> Wales to be issued otherwise than in the form of a certified copy ..." >> >><http://www.sog.org.uk/news/article/gro-information-on-births-marriages >>-and-death-doesnt-have-to-on-expensive-c/> > >YES!!! But, as others have said, let's see how this plays with the >upcoming election. > >Jon Also, I note the following: (4) The provision that may be made in the regulations includes provision for a record to be provided in a form that does not include all of the information contained in an entry. ... which I hope is _not_ implemented: other than money-raising (i. e. blackmail to get the full record), I can see no possible reason to exclude any of the information. (If the reason - the only one I can think of - is something to do with the privacy of living persons, then this should have been made clear, which it certainly isn't - to me at least - in the Hansard record in the above.) -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)[email protected]+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf Rugby is a game played by gentlemen with odd-shaped balls.