The Registration of Marriages etc. (Electronic Communications and Electronic Storage) Order 2009

Modification of section 31 of the 1949 Act

6.—(1) In section 31 of the 1949 Act (marriage under certificate without licence) after subsection (1) insert—

“(1A) Where the notice was entered in an approved electronic form by virtue of section 27(4A) (“the approved form”), the duty imposed by subsection (1) is to be discharged by the superintendent registrar —

(a) arranging for the notice to be displayed for 15 successive days beginning with the day after the day on which the notice was entered in the approved form, in an approved electronic form, or

(b) suspending or affixing as described in subsection (1), for 15 days beginning with the day after the day on which the notice was entered in the approved form —

(i) the notice of the marriage, or

(ii) an exact copy, signed by the superintendent registrar, of the particulars of that notice as entered in the approved form.”

(2) In subsection (3) of that section after “marriage notice book” insert “, or in an approved electronic form by virtue of section 27(4A),”.

(3) In subsection (4A) of that section after “marriage notice book” insert “, or in an approved electronic form by virtue of section 27(4A)”.

(4) In subsection (5B) of that section for “and” substitute “to”.