Everything about The General Register Office totally explained
The
General Register Office (GRO) is that part of the
government of
England and Wales that deals with the
civil registration of
births (including
stillbirths),
adoptions,
marriages and
civil partnerships, and
deaths in both
England and
Wales. (There are equivalent but separate offices for the other parts of the
United Kingdom, respectively
Scotland and
Northern Ireland.)
The GRO was founded in
1836 under an
Act of the
Parliament of the United Kingdom (6 & 7 Will. 4 C A P. LXXXVI), and civil registration commenced in
1837. Its head is the
Registrar General. Probably the most distinguished person associated with the GRO in the nineteenth century, although he was never its head, was
William Farr.
In
1972 the GRO became part of the newly created
Office of Population Censuses and Surveys (OPCS), with the Registrar General in overall charge. Until then it had had several statistical functions, including the conduct of population censuses and the production of annual population estimates. All these were moved elsewhere within the new organisation. The GRO then became just one division within OPCS, headed by a Deputy Registrar General. Then in
1996 the OPCS, and therefore the GRO, became part of the newly created
Office for National Statistics, and the office of Registrar General was merged with that of Head of the
Government Statistical Service.
The GRO supplies copies of
birth,
marriage,
civil partnership certificates and
death certificates, either online, via the
Family Records Centre or from one of the local
register offices that act on behalf of the GRO.
Becoming part of IPS
On 1st April 2008, the General Register Office for England and Wales (GRO) became a subsidiary of the
Identity and Passport Service (IPS). The decision to make the transfer of GRO to IPS was finalised following the outcome of the Comprehensive Spending Review. As such IPS and the
Home Office is the natural home for GRO. The move follows changes to make Office of National Statistics more independent of Government, which means ONS will no longer be responsible for the registration role it currently holds.
Registrars General
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