This petition was submitted during the 2010-2015 parliament
Petition Free Access to Public Records
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Current internet access to many public records, such as marriage, birth, death certificates, etc is via third party organisations that charge a fee to the public for such access. Public records are already paid for and maintained by public taxation; they belong to the general public; the general public should not have to pay again to see these records. I propose that all such records should be freely available to the general public via the internet and that the current profiteering by third party organisations should be made illegal.
This petition is closed This petition ran for 6 months
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