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From: Eve McLaughlin <>
Subject: Re: [Lon] BMD Certs online, ever?
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 00:06:04 +0100
In-Reply-To: <00a101c4b4ee$49978760$6132fea9@n2a0h1>


In message <00a101c4b4ee$49978760$>, Valerie Bayliss
<> writes
>Don't hold your breath. The whole package of changes needs legislation,
unfortunately, it doesn't, in the ordinary sense of the word. They will
not have to table a Parliamentary Bill, let the MPs debate it, revise it
and bring it up again for a second reading and finally pass it. The
whole thing is being done by Statutory Instrument, meaning they use the
permission granted by previous legislation which says they can make
'adminsitrative adjustments' to make a really major change. However,
poressure has already made them budge a little bit, and with luck, the

--
Eve McLaughlin

Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians
Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society

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