The Registration of Marriages Regulations 2021

Amendment of Schedule 3A to the 1949 Act (modifications if proposed marriage referred under section 28H)

48.—(1) Schedule 3A to the 1949 Act (modifications if proposed marriage referred under section 28H)(1) is amended as follows.

(2) In the italic heading before paragraph 2 for “certificate” substitute “marriage schedule”.

(3) In paragraph 2 (events for issue of certificate)—

(a) in sub-paragraphs (1) and (8), for “certificate” substitute “marriage schedule”;

(b) in sub-paragraphs (2)(a), (3)(b), (4)(a) and (c), (5)(b), (6) and (7)(a) and (c), after “the superintendent registrar” insert “or (as the case may be) superintendent registrars”.

(4) In paragraph 3 (extension of waiting period to 70 days where marriage to be investigated)—

(a) omit sub-paragraph (2);

(b) in sub-paragraph (4), omit “and (5C)”;

(c) omit sub-paragraph (6);

(d) in sub-paragraph (7)(a)—

(i) for “entered in the marriage book” substitute “recorded in the marriage register”;

(ii) omit “or is entered in an approved electronic form by virtue of section 27(4A) of that Act,”.

(5) In paragraph 4 (effect of reducing statutory period), in sub-paragraphs (1)(b), (2) and (4), for “certificate” (in each place it appears) substitute “marriage schedule”.

(1)

Schedule 3A was inserted by paragraph 9 of Schedule 4 to the Immigration Act 2014.