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New Registrar General appointed
27/06/2003
Duncan Macniven, currently Head of Corporate Services at
the Forestry Commission, has been appointed as the new
Registrar General for Scotland.
He will replace John Randall who is retiring.
Mr Macniven studied history at Aberdeen University and
held a number of senior Scottish Office posts in Health,
Historic Scotland and Justice before being appointed as a
Forestry Commissioner in 1999.
Of the retiral of John Randall, Justice Minister Cathy
Jamieson said:
"I want to thank John Randall for his dedication to the
work of the General Register Office over the last four
years. In that time he has overseen a number of important
developments and initiatives that have helped us map the
population and lives of Scotland today - including the 2001
census. I wish him well in his retirement."
The statutory post of Registrar General for Scotland
heads the General Register Office for Scotland (GROS).
It is responsible for registering events like births,
deaths, marriages, divorces and adoptions. It has
responsibility for the conduct of civil marriage, for the
census of Scotland's population every 10 years, and for
other statistics about Scotland's people.