The Reporting of Suspicious Marriages and Registration of Marriages (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2000

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Reporting of Suspicious Marriages and Registration of Marriages (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2000 and shall come into force on 1st January 2001.

(2) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—

“registration officer” means one of the persons referred to in section 24(1)(a) or (b) of the 1999 Act or a registrar of marriages as referred to in section 24(2)(a) of that Act;

“the 1949 Act” means the Marriage Act 1949;

“the 1970 Act” means the Marriage (Registrar General’s Licence) Act 1970(1);

“the 1999 Act” means the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999;

“the Authorised Persons Regulations” means the Marriage (Authorised Persons) Regulations 1952(2);

“the principal Regulations” means the Registration of Marriages Regulations 1986(3); and

“the Welsh Regulations” means the Registration of Marriages (Welsh Language) Regulations 1999(4).

(1)

1970 c. 34.

(2)

S.I. 1952/1869 as amended by S.I. 1971/1216, S.I. 1974/573 and S.I. 1986/1444.

(3)

S.I. 1986/1442 as amended by S.I. 1987/2088, S.I. 1995/744, S.I. 1996/2558 and S.I. 1997/2204.

(4)

S.I. 1999/1621.