Marriage Act 1949

32 Marriage under certificate by licence. E+W

(1) Where a marriage is intended to be solemnized on the authority of a certificate of a superintendent registrar by licence, the person by whom notice of marriage is given shall state in the notice that the marriage is intended to be solemnized by licence, and the notice shall not be suspended in the office of the superintendent registrar.

(2) Where a notice of marriage containing such a statement as aforesaid has been received by a superintendent registrar, then, after the expiration of one whole day next after the day on which the notice was entered in the marriage notice book, the superintendent registrar, on the request of the person by whom the notice was given, shall issue a certificate and a licence in the prescribed form unless—

(a) any lawful impediment to the issue of the certificate has been shown to the satisfaction of the superintendent registrar; or

(b) the issue of the certificate has been forbidden under section thirty of this Act by any person authorised in that behalf.

(3) Every such certificate shall set out the particulars contained in the notice of marriage and the day on which the notice was entered in the marriage notice book, and shall contain a statement that the issue of the certificate has not been forbidden as aforesaid.

(4) Where a marriage is to be solemnized in a registered building for which an authorised person has been appointed and no notice requiring a registrar to be present at the marriage has been given to the superintendent registrar under subsection (5) of section twenty-seven of this Act, the superintendent registrar shall, when issuing a certificate and licence under this section, give to one of the persons to be married printed instructions in the prescribed form for the due solemnization of the marriage.

(5) A superintendent registrar shall be entitled to receive for every certificate issued by him under this section a fee of [F1 one shilling and sixpence] and for every licence so issued the sum of [F2 £38.00][F2 £42.00] over and above the amount paid for the stamps necessary on the issue of the licence.

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Textual Amendments

F1 Words in s. 32(5) substituted by Registration Service Act 1953 (c. 37), Sch. 1, para. 7

F2 “£38.00” substituted by virtue of S.I. 1990/65, art. 2, Sch. and for “£38.00” (as so substituted) there is substituted (1.4.1991) “£42.00” by S.I. 1990/2515, art. 2, Sch.

F3 S. 32(6) repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1975 (c. 10), Sch. Pt. VI

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 S. 32(5): By S.I. 1968/1242, art. 4(2), it is provided that the fee payable for the issue of a certificate for marriage under s. 32(5) shall cease to be payable.