The Registration of Marriages Regulations 2021

Amendment of Part 6 of the 1949 Act (general)

43.—(1) Section 74 of the 1949 Act (regulations and approval of electronic forms etc)(1) is amended as follows.

(2) In subsection (1), after paragraph (b), insert—

“;

(c) making provision in relation to—

(i) corrections to or the re-issue of a marriage schedule or marriage document before the marriage is solemnized;

(ii) the keeping of a signed marriage schedule or signed marriage document after the particulars set out in it have been entered in the marriage register;

(iii) corrections to entries entered under this Act in the marriage register or a marriage register book;

(iv) the keeping of marriage register books in which the particulars of a marriage have been entered under this Act;

(v) the keeping in a church or chapel of records of marriages solemnized according to the rites of the Church of England in the church or chapel”.

(3) After subsection (1) insert—

“(1A) For the purposes of subsection (1)(c) “provision in relation to” the keeping of a book, document or other record includes, in particular, provision about—

(a) who is to be responsible for keeping the book, document or other record and how it is to be stored;

(b) the circumstances in which the book, document or other record must or may be annotated;

(c) the circumstances in which the book, document or other record must or may be sent to the Registrar General or a superintendent registrar.”.

(1)

Section 74 was amended by Schedule 2 to the Registration Services Act 1953, paragraph 15 of Schedule 4 to the Immigration Act 2014, paragraph 19 of Schedule 15 to the Immigration Act 2016, S.I. 2008/678 and S.I. 2009/2821.