The Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Amendment) Regulations 2005

Amendment of the Registration of Marriages (Welsh Language) Regulations 1999

4.—(1) The Registration of Marriages (Welsh Language) Regulations 1999(1) are amended as follows.

(2) After regulation 2 (forms of notice of marriage and of endorsement on notice) insert—

2A    Statement for intended marriage of house-bound and detained persons

In relation to a statement for intended marriage concerning a person house-bound in Wales or a person detained in Wales, regulation 5 of the principal Regulations (statements and particulars for intended marriage of house-bound or detained person) shall have effect as if it referred respectively not to forms 5 and 6 in Schedule 1 to those Regulations but to forms 3A and 3B respectively in Schedule 2 to these Regulations.”.

(3) In Schedule 1 (prescribed forms)—

(a) for the list headed “Contents”, substitute the list headed “Contents” in Schedule 3 to these Regulations;

(b) in forms 1, 1A, 1B, 1C and 6, for “Marital status Statws priodasol” substitute “Condition Cyflwr”;

(c) after form 3, insert forms 3A and 3B as set out in Schedule 2 to these Regulations.

(d) for form 5, substitute form 5 in Schedule 4 to these Regulations.

(4) In Schedule 2—

in columns 1 and 2, at the beginning, for

“Bachelor	Dyn di-briod
Spinster	Dynes ddi-briod”;

• substitute—

  “Single	Sengl
  Previous civil partnership dissolved	Partneriaeth sifil flaenorol wedi'i therfynu
  Previous civil partnership annulled	Partneriaeth sifil flaenorol wedi'i dirymu
  Surviving civil partner	Partner sifil goroesol
  Previously formed a civil partnership at … on …; Civil partnership dissolved on …	Ffurfiwyd partneriaeth sifil o'r blaen yn . . . ar y . . .; terfynwyd y bartneriaeth sifil ar y …
  Previously formed a civil partnership at … on …; Civil partnership annulled on …	Ffurfiwyd partneriaeth sifil o'r blaen yn … ar y …; y bartneriaeth sifil wedi'i dirymu ar y …”;.

(1)

S.I. 1999/1621 as amended by S.I. 2000/3164 and S.I. 2005/155.