Marriage Act 1949 (c. 76)

Part III U.K. Marriage under Superintendent Registrar’s Certificate

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 Pt. III applied (S.) as to issue of certificates for marriage by Marriage (Scotland) Act 1956 (c. 70), s. 1(3)

Issue of certificates U.K.

[F1 27C Provisions relating to section 1(5) marriages. E+W

In the case of a marriage mentioned in subsection (4) of section 1 of this Act which by virtue of subsection (5) of that section is valid only if at the time of the marriage both the parties to the marriage have attained the age of twenty-one and the death has taken place of two other persons related to those parties in the manner mentioned in the said subsection (5), the superintendent registrar shall not enter notice of the marriage in the marriage notice book unless satisfied by the production of evidence—

(a) that both the parties to the marriage have attained the age of twenty-one, and

(b) that both those other persons are dead.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Ss. 27B, 27C inserted (E.W.) by Marriage (Prohibited Degrees of Relationship) Act 1986 (c. 16, SIF 49:1), s. 1(4)(6), Sch. 1 para. 5