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

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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
1	certificate
	•	short form	$33.00
	•	long form	$39.90
2	records search		$6.25
3	genealogy search
	•	1st 3 years	$18.65
	•	each additional 3-year period	$12.45
4	all other services not listed above, per service		$24.95

Fee exemptions

4 (1) In this Section, “residential school” means a school for Indigenous children, funded by the government of Canada and administered by a church.

(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.

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:

*See subsection 3(6) of the Regulations Act for rules about in force dates of regulations.

N.S. Regulation	Title	In force date	Repealed date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Note: Only regulations that are specifically repealed and replaced appear in this table.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.

ad. = added am. = amended	fc. = fee change ra. = reassigned		rep. = repealed rs. = repealed and substituted
Provision affected		How affected
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Fees for Searches and Transactions Regulations	N.S. Reg. 100/2019
Vital Statistics Act
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	Note	Effective date