§ Where for the purposes of this Act the age of any person is required to be proved by the production of a certificate of birth any person shall, on presenting a written requisition in such form and containing such particulars as may be from time to time prescribed by the Local Government Board and on payment of a fee of six pence, be entitled to obtain a certified copy, under the hand of a registrar or superintendent registrar, of the entry in the register under the Births and Deaths Registration Acts, 1836 to 1901, of the birth of that person, and such form of requisition shall on request be supplied without any charge by every registrar and superintendent registrar of births, deaths, and marriages.
§ Amendment proposed: After the word "Board," insert the words "for England, Scotland, or Ireland, as the case may be."—[Mr. Buxton.]
§ Question put, "That the Amendment be made."
§ The House divided: Ayes, 132; Noes, 76.
947| Division No. 421.] | AYES. | [4.45 p.m. |
| Acland, Francis Dyke | Donelan, Captain A. | Jones, William (Carnarvonshire) |
| Ainsworth, John Stirling | Doris, W. | Kennedy, Vincent Paul |
| Allen, Arthur A. (Dumbarton) | Elibank, Rt. Hon. Master of | Lambert, George (Devon, S. Molton) |
| Allen, Charles P. (Stroud) | Esmonde, Dr. John (Tipperary, N.) | Lawson, Sir W. (Cumb'rl'nd. Cockerm'th) |
| Anderson, A. M. | Esmonde, Sir Thomas (Wexford, N.) | Lewis, John Herbert |
| Atherley-Jones, Llewellyn A. | Essex, Richard Walter | Low, Sir F. (Norwich) |
| Baker, H. T. (Accrington) | Esslemont, George Birnie | Lundon, Thomas |
| Baker, Joseph Allen (Finsbury, E.) | Farrell, James, Patrick | Macpherson, James Ian |
| Balfour, Sir Robert (Lanark) | Ferens, T. R. | MacVeagh, Jeremiah |
| Beauchamp, Sir Edward | Flavin, Michael Joseph | M'Callum, John M. |
| Boland, John Pius | Glanville, Harold James | McKenna, Rt. Hon. Reginald |
| Bryce, J. Annan | Greenwood, Granville G. (Peterborough) | M'Micking, Major Gilbert |
| Buckmaster, Stanley O. | Greig, Col. J. W. | Marshall, Arthur Harold |
| Burke, E. Haviland- | Hackett, John | Mason, David M. (Coventry) |
| Burns, Rt. Hon. John | Harcourt, Robert V. (Montrose) | Meagher, Michael |
| Buxton, Rt. Hon. Sydney C. (Poplar) | Harmsworth, Cecil (Luton, Beds.) | Meehan, Patrick A. (Queen's Co.) |
| Byles, Sir William Pollard | Harvey, T. E. (Leeds, W) | Menzies, Sir Walter |
| Carr-Gomm, H. W. | Havelock-Allan, Sir Henry | Molloy, M. |
| Chapple, Dr. William Allen | Hayden, John Patrick | Mooney, J. J. |
| Collins, Stephen (Lambeth) | Helme, Norval Watson | Morton, Alpheus Cleophas |
| Compton-Rickett, Rt. Hon. Sir J. | Henry, Sir Charles S. | Muldoon, John |
| Cornwall, Sir Edwin A. | Higham, John Sharp | Murray, Captain Hon. Arthur C. |
| Cotton, William Francis | Hinds, John | Nannetti, Joseph P. |
| Craig, Herbert J. (Tynemouth) | Howard, Hon. Geoffrey | Nicholson, Charles N. (Doncaster) |
| Crawshay-Williams, Eliot | Hughes, Spencer Leigh | Nolan, Joseph |
| Crumley, Patrick | Hunter, Wm. (Lanark, Govan) | Norton, Capt. Cecil W. |
| Davies, Timothy (Lincs., Louth) | Isaacs, Rt. Hon. Sir Rufus | Nugent, Sir Walter Richard |
| Delany, William | Jones, Sir D. Brynmor (Swansea) | O'Brien, Patrick (Kilkenny) |
| Denman, Hon. Richard Douglas | Jones, Edgar (Merthyr Tydvil) | O'Connor, John (Kildare, N.) |
| Devlin, Joseph | Jones, Lief Stratten (Notts, Rushcliffe) | O'Doherty, Philip |
| O'Kelly, Edward P. (Wicklow, W.) | Robertson, Sir G. Scott (Bradford) | Sutherland, J. E. |
| O'Malley, William | Roch, Walter F. (Pembroke) | Thomas, Abel (Carmarthen, E.) |
| Palmer, Godfrey Mark | Roche, Augustine (Louth) | Wason, Rt. Hon. E. (Clackmannan) |
| Pearce, Robert (Staffs., Leek) | Roe, Sir Thomas | Wason, John Cathcart (Orkney) |
| Phillips, John (Longford, S.) | Rowlands, James | Webb, H. |
| Price, C. E. (Edinburgh, Central) | Samuel, Rt. Hon. H. L. (Cleveland) | White, J. Dundas (Glasgow, Tradeston) |
| Priestley, Sir W. E. B. (Bradford, E.) | Scanlan, Thomas | White, Patrick (Meath, North) |
| Pringle, William M. R. | Schwann, Rt. Hon. Sir C. E. | Whitehouse, John Howard |
| Radford, George Heynes | Seely, Col. Rt. Hon. J. E. B. | Whyte, Alexander F. (Perth) |
| Raphael, Sir Herbert H. | Sheehy, David | Williams, Penry (Middlesbrough) |
| Rea, Walter Russell (Scarborough) | Shortt, Edward | Wood, Rt. Hon. T. McKinnon (Glas.) |
| Reddy, Michael | Simon, Sir John Alisebrook | Yoxall, Sir James Henry |
| Richardson, Albion (Peckham) | Soames, Arthur Wellesley | |
| Roberts, Charles H. (Lincoln) | Spicer, Sir Albert | TELLERS FOR THE AYES.—Mr. Gulland and Mr. Wedgwood Benn. |
| Roberts, Sir J. H. Denbighs) | Strauss, Edward A. (Southwark, West) | |
| NOES. | ||
| Amery, L. G. M. S. | Fletcher, John Samuel (Hampstead) | O'Grady, James |
| Ashley, W. W. | Gill, A. H. | Paget, Almeric Hugh |
| Baird, J. L. | Gwynne, R. S. (Sussex, Eastbourne) | Rawlinson, John Frederick Peel |
| Barnes, G. N. | Hancock, J. G. | Richardson, Thomas (Whitehaven) |
| Beckett, Hon. Gervase | Hardie, J. Keir | Salter, Arthur Clavell |
| Benn, Arthur Shirley (Plymouth) | Harris, Henry Percy | Samuel, Sir Harry (Norwood) |
| Benn, Ion Hamilton (Greenwich) | Hill, Sir Clement L. | Smith, Albert (Lancs., Clitheroe) |
| Boscawen, Sir Arthur S. T. Griffith- | Hills, J. W. | Snowden, P. |
| Bowerman, Charles W. | Hodge, John | Stanley, Albert (Staffs, N. W.) |
| Boyle, W. L. (Norfolk, Mid.) | Hope, James Fitzalan (Sheffield) | Stewart, Gershom |
| Brassey, H. Leonard Campbell | Hudson, Walter | Sutton, John E. |
| Bridgeman, W. Clive | Hume-Williams, W. E. | Thomson, W. Mitchell- (Down, North) |
| Carlile, Sir Edward Hildred | Jowett, F. W. | Thynne, Lord A. |
| Cassel, Felix | ||
| Cator, John | Kerr-Smiley, Peter Kerr | Touche, George Alexander |
| Cautley, H. S. | Kinloch-Cooke, Sir Clement | Walsh, Stephen (Lancs., Ince) |
| Cecil, Evelyn (Aston Manor) | Kyffin-Taylor, G. | Ward, Arnold S. (Herts, Watford) |
| Cecil, Lord R. (Herts, Hitchin) | Locker-Lampson, O. (Ramsey) | Ward, John (Stoke-upon-Trent |
| Clyde, James Avon | Lowe, Sir F. W. (Birm., Edgbaston) | Wardle, George J. |
| Clynes, J. R. | Lyell, Charles Henry | Wilkie, Alexander |
| Collins, G. P. (Greenock) | MacCaw, Wm. J. MacGeagh | Wilson, W. T. (Westhoughton) |
| Crooks, William | Macdonald, J. R. (Leicester) | Wood, John (Stalybridge) |
| Dawes, James Arthur | Magnus, Sir Philip | Wortley, Rt. Hon. C. B. Stuart- |
| Denniss, E. R. B. | Malcolm, Ian | Yate, Col. C. E. |
| Dickson, Rt. Hon. C. Scott | Newdegate, F. A. | |
| Eyres-Monsell, B. M. | Newman, John R. P. | TELLERS FOR THE NOES.—Mr. C. Duncan and Mr. Goldstone |
| Fell, Arthur | Nield, Herbert |
§ Further Amendments made: After the word "copy" ["certified copy"], insert the words "of the entry of the birth of that person in the births register."
§ Leave out the word "a" ["of a registrar"], and insert instead thereof the word "the."
§ Leave out the words "of the entry in the register under the Births and Deaths Registration Acts, 1836 to 1901, of the birth of that person, and such form of," and insert instead thereof the words "having the custody thereof, and forms for such."
§ Leave out the word "and" ["registrar and superintendent"], and insert instead thereof the words "of births and deaths and by every."
§ Leave out the words "of births, deaths, and marriages."—[Mr. Lloyd George.]