The Registration of Marriages Regulations 2021

Amendment of Part 1 of the 1949 Act (restrictions on marriage)

1.—(1) Section 3 of the 1949 Act (marriages of persons under eighteen)(1) is amended as follows.

(2) In subsection (1), for “certificates issued by a superintendent registrar under Part III of this Act” substitute “a marriage schedule”.

(3) In subsection (2)—

(a) for “references” (in the first place it appears) substitute “a reference”;

(b) for “references” (in the second place it appears) substitute “the reference”.

(1)

Section 3 was amended by paragraph 9 of Schedule 2 to the Family Law Reform Act 1987 (c. 42), paragraph 5 of Schedule 12 and Schedule 15 to the Children Act 1989 (c. 41), paragraph 4 of Schedule 14 and Schedule 16 to the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999, paragraph 2, paragraph 3, paragraph 4 and paragraph 5 of Schedule 3 to the Adoption and Children Act 2002 (c. 38), paragraph 13 of Schedule 11 to the Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c. 22) and paragraph 3 of Schedule 7 to the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013, paragraph 42 of Schedule 2 to the Children and Families Act 2014 (c. 6), and S.I. 2000/2698 .