The Registration of Marriages Regulations 2021

Amendment of Schedule 4 to the 1949 Act (provisions of Act which are excluded or modified in their application to naval, military and air force chapels)

49.—(1) Schedule 4 to the 1949 Act (provisions of Act which are excluded or modified in their application to naval, military and air force chapels)(1) is amended as follows.

(2) In Part 1 (exclusion of provisions relating to marriages according to the rites of the Church of England), omit “Sections fifty-three to fifty-seven, fifty-nine and sixty, so far as those sections relate to the registration of marriages by clergymen and to the duties of incumbents in relation to marriage register books.”.

(3) In Part 2 (modification of provisions relating to marriages according to the rites of the Church of England), in the entry relating to section 50, omit “for the purpose of registering marriages”.

(4) In Part 4 (modification of provisions relating to marriages otherwise than according to the rites of the Church of England), in the final entry, for “, forty-four and fifty-four” substitute “and 44”.

(1)

Schedule 4 was amended by section 1(2) of the Marriage Acts Amendment Act 1958 (c. 29), paragraph 32 of Schedule 14 and Schedule 16 to the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 and paragraph 21 of Schedule 7 to the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013.