The Referral and Investigation of Proposed Marriages and Civil Partnerships (Scotland) Order 2015

6.  After section 6 insert—

“Marriage notice: false information or evidence

6A.— (1) A district registrar may refuse to complete a Marriage Schedule under section 6 in a case where—

(a) a marriage notice has been submitted under section 3(1), and

(b) the district registrar has reasonable grounds for suspecting that a relevant decision was made incorrectly because of the provision of false information or evidence in or accompanying that notice.

(2) If the district registrar refuses to complete a Marriage Schedule under subsection (1), the parties to the proposed marriage are to be taken not to have submitted a marriage notice under section 3; but that does not prevent criminal proceedings from being brought against either party, or any other person, in relation to the submission of notice.

(3) This section is without prejudice to any other powers of district registrars to refuse to complete a Marriage Schedule.

(4) In this section—

“evidence” includes a photograph or other image;

“exempt person” has the same meaning as in section 3F;

“relevant decision” means a decision of a district registrar that a party to the proposed marriage is an exempt person.”