The Local Electoral Administration and Registration Services (Scotland) Act 2006 (Commencement No. 1 and Transitional Provision) Order 2006

Transitional provision

4.—(1) This article applies to any marriage notice submitted to a district registrar under section 3 of the 1977 Act(1) before 1st January 2007 in respect of a marriage which, as a consequence of section 37, is to be solemnised in a registration district other than the registration district of the district registrar to which it was submitted.

(2) Such a notice is deemed to have been submitted to the district registrar to whom such a notice would be submitted after 1st January 2007.

(3) A district registrar who received such a notice and the fee and documents accompanying it under section 3(1) of the 1977 Act must transmit them to the district registrar to whom the notice is deemed to have been submitted.

(1)

Section 3 of the Marriage (Scotland) Act 1977 (c. 15), amended by the Marriage (Prohibited Degrees of Relationship) Act 1986 (c. 16), section 2 and Schedule 2, paragraph 3, the Family Law Act 1986 (c. 55), sections 68(1), 69(6) and Schedule 1, paragraph 21(a), and by sections 48(2) and 50(2) of the Local Electoral Administration and Registration Services (Scotland) Act 2006 (“the 2006 Act”) for marriage notices submitted after 1st January 2007 (see Schedule 2 to this Order). There is a definition of “the 1977 Act” in section 60(1) of the 2006 Act.