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SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 2S Amendments of Marriage (Scotland) Act 1977

4SIn section 5 (objections to marriage)-

(a)at the beginning of subsection (3) there shall be inserted the words “Subject to subsection (3A) below,”;

(b)after subsection (3) there shall be inserted the following subsection—

(3A)Where—

(a)an objection of which the Registrar General has received notification under subsection (2)(b)(i) above is on the ground that—

(i)the parties are related in a degree specified in paragraph 2 of Schedule 1 to this Act; and

(ii)the conditions specified in paragraphs (a) and (b) of section 2(1A) of this Act are not satisfied; and

(b)an extract decree of declarator that those conditions are satisfied, granted on an application under section 2(5) of this Act, is produced to the Registrar General,

the Registrar General shall inform the district registrar that there is no legal impediment to the marriage on that ground.; and

(c)in subsection (4), for the words “subsection (3) above” there shall be substituted the words “this section”.