registration and coroners

Information type Keep for Keep from Legislation or business reason
Citizenship Duration of ceremony Receipt from Home Office

Home Office Regulations

Deaths – Inquests Permanent Creation

Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953

Civil partnerships Permanent Creation

Civil Partnerships Act 2004

Treasure trove Fifteen years Creation

Limitation Act 1980

Marriage registrations Permanent Creation

Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953 Chapter 20

Death registrations Permanent Creation

Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953 Chapter 20

Birth registrations Permanent Creation

Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953 Chapter 20

Certificate requisitions – 1st and 5th schedules Six years Creation

Industrial Assurance and Friendly Society Acts 1948 (1st) and 1974 (5th)

Notiifications of disposals of bodies of deceased persons Five years Creation

Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953 Chapter 20

Marriage Notices Five years Creation

Marriage Act 1949 Chapter 76

Authorised persons appointment forms Two years Vacation of office

Marriage Acts of 1898 and 1949

Registrar General’s authorities for registration after twelve months Two years Creation

Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953 Sections 7 and 21

Registration Officers appointment forms One year Retirement

Lord Chancellors Code of Practice on the management of Records Issued Under Section 46 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000

Marriages of minors consent forms One year Creation

Marriage Acts of 1898 and 1949