The Registration of Marriages Regulations 2021

Amendment of Part 3 of the 1949 Act (marriage under superintendent registrar’s certificate)

35.—(1) Section 50 of the 1949 Act (person to whom certificate to be delivered)(1) is amended as follows.

(2) In the heading, for “certificate” substitute “marriage schedule”.

(3) Before subsection (1), insert—

“(A1) This section applies where the parties to a marriage have been issued a marriage schedule under section 31(4).”.

(4) In subsection (1) —

(a) for “Where a marriage is intended to be solemnized on the authority of certificates of a superintendent registrar, the certificates shall be delivered to the following person, that is to say” substitute “The parties to the marriage must deliver the marriage schedule to the following person”;

(b) omit paragraphs (a), (c) and (cc);

(c) in paragraph (d), for “the registering” substitute “an”;

(d) in paragraph (e), for “is required to be registered under Part IV of this Act” substitute “schedule is required to be signed in accordance with section 53C”.

(5) Omit subsection (3).

(1)

Section 50 was amended by paragraph 14 to Schedule 1 of the Marriage Act 1983, paragraph 4 of the Schedule to Marriage Act 1994, paragraph 28 of Schedule 14 and Schedule 16 to the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999.