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Fees for Searches and Transactions Regulations

made under

Section 51 of the

Vital Statistics Act

R.S.N.S 1989, c. 494

O.I.C. 2019-179 (effective July 9, 2019), N.S. Reg. 100/2019

Table of Contents

Please note: this table of contents is provided for convenience of reference and does not form part of the regulations.

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Citation

Definition

Prescribed fees

Fee exemptions

Citation

1 These regulations may be cited as the Fees for Searches and Transactions Regulations .

Definition

2 In these regulations,

“Act” means the Vital Statistics Act .

Prescribed fees

3 Unless a fee exemption in

Section 4 applies, the prescribed fees for searches, certificates

and anything done or permitted to be done under the Act are as set out in the following

table:

Item

Description

Fee

certificate

short form

$33.00

long form

$39.90

records search

$6.25

genealogy search

1st 3 years

$18.65

each additional 3-year period

$12.45

all other services not listed above, per service

$24.95

Fee exemptions

(1) In this Section, “residential school” means a school for Indigenous children, funded

(2) The following persons are exempt from the fees set out in items 1 and 4 of the

table of prescribed fees in

Section 3:

(

a) until and including March 31, 2024, any of the following persons who are

seeking to reclaim a name that was changed by a residential school:

(

i) a person who attended the residential school and whose name was

changed by the residential school,

(ii) a family member of the person referred to in subclause (i);

(

b) on a 1-time basis, a person issued a certificate of gender identity under

subsection 37(6A) of the Act.

(3) A person seeking an exemption under clause (2)(

a) must provide the Registrar with

information acceptable to the Registrar about the residential school attendance of

the person whose name was changed by the residential school.

Legislative History

Reference Tables

Fees for Searches and Transactions Regulations

N.S. Reg.

100/2019

Vital Statistics Act

Note: The

information in these tables does not form part of the regulations and is

compiled by the Office of the Registrar of Regulations for reference only.

Source Law

The current consolidation of the Fees for Searches and Transactions Regulations made

under the Vital Statistics Act includes all of the following regulations:

N.S.

Regulation

In force

date*

How in force

Royal Gazette

Part II Issue

100/2019

Jul 9, 2019

date specified

Jul 19, 2019

The

following regulations are not yet in force and are not included in the current

consolidation:

N.S.

Regulation

In force

date*

How in force

Royal Gazette

Part II Issue

*See subsection 3(6) of the Regulations Act for

rules about in force dates of regulations.

Amendments by Provision

ad. = added

am. = amended

fc. = fee change

ra. = reassigned

rep. = repealed

rs . = repealed and substituted

Provision affected

How affected

..........................................................

Note that changes to headings are not

included in the above table.

Editorial Notes and Corrections

Note

Effective

date

Repealed and Superseded

N.S.

Regulation

Title

In force

date

Repealed

date

26/1994

Regulations respecting fees for searches and

transactions

Jan 1, 1994

Jul 9, 2019

Note: Only

regulations that are specifically repealed and replaced appear in this

table. It may not reflect the entire

history of regulations on this subject matter.