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24.—(1) Every superintendent registrar must cause indexes of entries in the conversion register relating to all conversions registered in the superintendent registrar’s registration district to be made and to be kept with other records in the register office.
(2) Any person is entitled at any time when the register office is required to be open for the transaction of public business to search the indexes, and to have a certified copy of any entry in the conversion register, on payment to the superintendent registrar of the [F1appropriate fee].
(3) The superintendent registrar must sign all certified copies given in accordance with paragraph (2).
(4) Any certified copy signed by the superintendent registrar is to be received in evidence of the marriage to which it relates without any further proof of the entry.
(5) No certified copy purporting to have been given by the superintendent registrar is to be of any force or effect unless it is signed in accordance with paragraph (3).
(6) For the purpose of discharging the duty in paragraph (1), and the duty in section 64(1) of the 1949 Act(1) (duty to keep an index [F2of entries in the marriage register and certified copies of entries in marriage register books]), the superintendent registrar may keep a joint index of entries in the conversion register [F3and entries in the marriage register and certified copies of entries in marriage register books].
Textual Amendments
F1Words in reg. 24(2) substituted (5.10.2016) by The Registration of Births, Deaths, Marriages and Civil Partnerships (Fees) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/911), reg. 1, Sch. 2 para. 3(12)
F2Words in reg. 24(6) substituted (4.5.2021) by The Registration of Marriages Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/411), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 66(3)(a) (with Sch. 2)
F3Words in reg. 24(6) substituted (4.5.2021) by The Registration of Marriages Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/411), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 66(3)(b) (with Sch. 2)
Commencement Information
I1Reg. 24 in force at 10.12.2014, see reg. 1
1949 c. 76. There are amendments to section 64(2), not relevant here.