The Registration of Marriages Regulations 2021

Amendment of Part 6 of the 1949 Act (general)

44.—(1) Section 75 of the 1949 Act (offences relating to solemnization of marriages)(1) is amended as follows.

(2) In subsection (1)(b), for “certificates of a superintendent registrar” substitute “a marriage schedule”.

(3) In subsection (2)—

(a) in paragraph (a)(ii), for “certificates” substitute “(if so specified) in the marriage schedule”;

(b) in paragraph (d), for the words from “certificates” to “notice of marriage” substitute “a marriage schedule when none of the conditions in section 31(3) is met”;

(c) in paragraph (e), for “certificates of a superintendent registrar” substitute “a marriage schedule”.

(4) Omit subsection (2A).

(5) In subsection (3)—

(a) for paragraph (a), substitute—

“(a) issues a marriage schedule when none of the conditions in section 31(3) is met;”;

(b) in paragraph (b), for “any certificate for marriage” substitute “a marriage schedule”;

(c) in paragraph (c)—

(i) for “any certificate” substitute “a marriage schedule”;

(ii) for “such a certificate” substitute “a marriage schedule”.

(1)

Section 75 was amended by paragraph 20 of Schedule 1 to the Marriage Act 1983, paragraph 7 of the Schedule to the Marriage Act 1994, paragraph 30 of Schedule 14 and Schedule 16 to the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999, part 11 of Schedule 10 of the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 (c. 9), paragraph 19 of Schedule 7 to the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013, paragraph 16 of Schedule 4 to the Immigration Act 2014, S.I. 1997/986 and S.I. 2009/2821.