Introductory Text
Introductory
1.Title and commencement
2.Interpretation
Preliminaries to marriage
3.Notice of intention to marry
3A.Additional information if party not relevant national
3B.Additional evidence if party not relevant national
3C.Declaration to accompany information and evidence
3D.Rejection of false information or evidence
3E.Referral of proposed marriage to Secretary of State
4.Marriage notice book and list of intended marriages
5.Power to require evidence
6.Objections
7.Marriage schedule
7A.Marriage notice: false information or evidence
8.Marriage outside the United Kingdom where party resides in Northern Ireland
Persons who may solemnise marriages
9.Persons who may solemnise marriages
Religious marriages
9A.Governing authority of a religious body
10.Application by religious bodies for registration of member to solemnise marriages
11.Registration of officiants
12.Cancellation of registration
13.Appeals
14.Temporary authorisation to solemnise religious marriage
15.Solemnisation of religious marriage
16.Registration of religious marriage
17.Registrar's power to require delivery of marriage schedule
17A.Marriages of same-sex couples: protection from compulsion
Civil marriages
18.Places at which civil marriages may be solemnised
19.Solemnisation of civil marriage
20.Registration of civil marriage
21.Second marriage ceremony
Marriage of person under 18
22.Relevant consents required
23.Order dispensing with relevant consent
24.Recording of consents and orders
Miscellaneous
25.Commencement of marriage
26.Validity of registered marriage
27.Corrections and cancellations
28.Interpreters
29.Detained persons
Supplementary
30.Registration districts and registration authorities
31.Registrars and other staff
32.Registrars' offices
33.Records and documents to be sent to Registrar General
34.Annual report
35.Searches
35A.Notification of registration
36.Proof of marriage for purposes of certain statutory provisions
37.Fees
38.Offences
39.Regulations
Article 40—Repeals
SCHEDULES
Schedule—Repeals
SCHEDULE2
Modifications if proposed marriage referred under Article 3E
1.Introduction
2.No marriage schedule to be completed until decision about investigation ...
3.Marriage to be investigated: no marriage schedule to be completed ...
4.Requests to complete the marriage schedule before expiry of 70 ...
5.Effect of reducing statutory period