S.I. No. 273/1976 - Foreign Births (Amendment) Regulations, 1976.

1. 7. The fee to be charged for registration in a foreign births entry book shall be five pounds fifty pence.

2. 8. Any person may, on payment of a fee of seventy-five pence, inspect at any diplomatic mission or consular office during the hours at which the mission or office is open for the transaction of business the foreign births entry book kept therein.

3. 9. (1) Any person may obtain a copy of an entry in a foreign births entry book on payment of a fee of seventy-five pence.

4. 12. The fee to be charged for registration in the foreign births register shall be five pounds fifty pence.

5. The Foreign Births (Amendment) Regulations, 1974, are hereby revoked.

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 26th day of November, 1976.

GARRET FITZGERALD,

Minister for Foreign Affairs.

The Minister for Finance hereby consents to the making of the foregoing regulations.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Finance, this 26th

day of November, 1976.

RICHIE RYAN,

Minister for Finance.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

The purpose of these Regulations is to increase the fees chargeable in connection with entries in the Foreign Births Register and in the Foreign Births Entry Books kept in accordance with the provisions of the Foreign Births Regulations, 1956 (

S.I. No. 224 of 1956

).

6. 16. (1) Any person may obtain a copy of an entry in the foreign births register on payment of a fee of seventy-five pence.

S.I. No. 273 of 1976.

FOREIGN BIRTHS (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 1976.

I, GARRET FITZGERALD, Minister for Foreign Affairs, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by

section 27

(5) of the

Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act, 1956

(No. 26 of 1956) (as adapted by the External Affairs (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order, 1971 (

S.I. No. 158 of 1971

)), hereby, with the consent of the Minister for Finance, make the following Regulations