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4.—(1) Article 6 of the 1970 Order shall be re-numbered Article 6(1).
(2) To Article 6 of the said Order there shall be added the following:
“(2) Any person shall be entitled to obtain from the appropriate Registrar General a certified copy of any document received by that Registrar General under paragraph (1) of this Article on payment of a fee in respect of the provision of the copy and any necessary search for the document.
(3) The fee payable under paragraph (2) above shall be the same fee as is for the time being charged by the appropriate Registrar General for the provision of a certified copy of, and any necessary search for, an entry in the records in his custody of marriages performed in Scotland or Northern Ireland, as the case may be.
(4) A certified copy provided by the appropriate Registrar General under paragraph (2) above of an entry in the marriage register shall be sufficient evidence of the marriage.
(5) In this Article, “the appropriate Registrar General” means the Registrar General of Births, Deaths and Marriages for Scotland, or the Registrar General in Northern Ireland, as the case may be.”.
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