Ss. 27B, 27C inserted (E.W.) by Marriage (Prohibited Degrees of Relationship) Act 1986 (c. 16, SIF 49:1), s. 1(4)(6), Sch. 1 para. 5

S. 28A and sidenote inserted (1.1.2001) by 1999 c. 33, s. 162(1); S.I. 2000/2698, art. 2

S. 31A and sidenote inserted (1.1.2001) by 1999 c. 33, s. 163(2); S.I. 2000/2698, art. 2

Words repealed by Marriage Acts Amendment Act 1958 (c. 29), s. 1(1)

S. 42(2)(4) repealed by Marriage Acts Amendment Act 1958 (c. 29), s. 1(1)

Proviso added by Marriage Acts Amendment Act 1958 (c. 29), s. 1(2)

Words “solemnised in the presence of a superintendent registrar” substituted (E.W.) for words “solemnized in the office of a superintendant registrar” by Marriage Act 1983 (c. 32, SIF 49:1), s. 1(7), Sch. 1 para. 12

S. 46(2)(3) applied by Marriage (Registrar General's Licence) Act 1970 (c. 34), s. 11(2)

Ss. 46A, 46B and cross-heading inserted (24.2.1995) by 1994 c. 34, ss. 1(2), 3(2); S.I. 1995/424, art. 2(1)(a)

Pt. III applied (S.) as to issue of certificates for marriage by Marriage (Scotland) Act 1956 (c. 70), s. 1(3)

S. 26(1)(dd) inserted(E.W.) by Marriage Act 1983 (c. 32, SIF 49:1), s. 1(7), Sch. 1 para. 4(a)

Words inserted (E.W.) by Marriage Act 1983 (c. 32, SIF 49:1), s. 1(7), Sch. 1 para. 4(a)

S. 26(2) excluded by Sharing of Church Buildings Act 1969 (c. 38), s. 6(3)

Words inserted (E.W.) by Marriage Act 1983 (c. 32, SIF 49:1), s. 1(7), Sch. 1 para. 4(b)

Words inserted (E.W.) by Marriage Act 1983 (c. 32, SIF 49:1), s. 1(7), Sch. 1 para. 5(a)

S. 27(4) applied by Marriage (Registrar General's Licence) Act 1970 (c. 34), s. 2(2)

Words inserted (E.W.) by Marriage Act 1983 (c. 32, SIF 49:1), s. 1(7), Sch. 1 para. 5(b)

Sum in s. 27(6) substituted (1.4.1992) by virtue of S.I. 1992/99, art. 2,Sch. (which S.I. revokes S.I. 1990/2515)

S. 27(7) inserted (E.W.) by Marriage Act 1983 (c. 32, SIF 49:1), s. 1(7), Sch. 1 para. 5(c)

Sum in s. 27(7) substituted (1.4.1992) by virtue of S.I. 1992/99, art. 2,Sch. (which S.I. revokes S.I. 1990/2515)

S. 27A inserted (E.W.) by Marriage Act 1983 (c. 32, SIF 49:1), s. 1(7), Sch. 1 para. 6

1978 c. 30 (115:1).

1983 c. 20 (85).

1952 c. 52 (39:1).

Ss. 27B, 27C inserted (E.W.) by Marriage (Prohibited Degrees of Relationship) Act 1986 (c. 16, SIF 49:1), s. 1(4)(6), Sch. 1 para. 5

S. 28 except para. 1(b) applied with modification by Marriage (Registrar General's Licence) Act 1970 (c. 34), s. 2(3)

S. 28(1) applied with modification by Marriage (Scotland) Act 1956 (c. 70), s. 1(2)(c)

Words “a child” substituted (E.W.) for words “an infant” by Family Law Reform Act 1987 (c. 42 SIF 49:7), ss. 33(1), 34(2)(5), Sch. 2 para. 9

S. 29 applied with modification by Marriage (Registrar General's Licence) Act 1970 (c. 34), s. 5

Words repealed by S.I. 1968/1242

S. 31(6) repealed by S.I. 1968/1242

S. 32(5): By S.I. 1968/1242, art. 4(2), it is provided that the fee payable for the issue of a certificate for marriage under s. 32(5) shall cease to be payable.

Words in s. 32(5) substituted by Registration Service Act 1953 (c. 37), Sch 1, para. 7.

Sum in s. 32(5) substituted (1.4.1992) by virtue of S.I. 1992/99, art. 2,Sch. (which S.I. revokes S.I. 1990/2515)

S. 32(6) repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1975 (c. 10), Sch. Pt. VI

Words “elsewhere than” substituted (E.W.) for “in a building which is not” by Marriage Act 1983 (c. 32, SIF 49:1), s. 1(7), Sch. 1 para. 7

S. 35(1)(a) substituted by Marriage Act 1949 (Amendment) Act 1954 (c. 47), s. 2

S. 35(2) substituted by Marriage Act 1949 (Amendment) Act 1954 (c. 47), s. 1

S. 37(1)(a) substituted by Marriage (Scotland) Act 1977 (c. 15, SIF 49:2), Sch. 2 para. 4(a) (subject to a saving in s. 27(3) in relation to marriages before 1.1.1978)

Words inserted (E.W.) by Marriage Act 1983 (c. 32, SIF 49:1), s. 1(7), Sch. 1 para. 8

S. 37(1)(c) substituted by Marriage (Scotland) Act 1977 (c. 15, SIF 49:2), s. 28(1), Sch. 2 para. 4(b) (subject to a saving in s. 27(3) in relation to marriages before 1.1.1978)

S. 37(2) repealed by Marriage (Scotland) Act 1977 (c. 15, SIF 49:2), s. 28(2), Sch. 3 (subject to a saving in s. 27(3) in relation to marriages before 1.1.1978)

Words “place where” substituted (E.W.) for words “church or other building in which” by Marriage Act 1983 (c. 32, SIF 49:1), s. 1(7), Sch. 1 para. 9

1844 c. 81.

1846 c. 72.

1863 c. 27.

Words inserted (E.W.) by Marriage Act 1983 (c. 32, SIF 49:1), s. 1(7), Sch. 1 para. 10(a)

Words substituted (E.W.) by virtue of Marriage (Prohibited Degrees of Relationship) Act 1986 (c. 16, SIF 49:1), s. 1(6), Sch. 1 para. 6(a)

Words “excluding section 27A” substituted (E.W.) for words “excluding sections 27A and 27B” as provided by Marriage (Prohibited Degrees of Relationship) Act 1986 (c. 16, SIF 49:1), s. 1(6), Sch. 1 para. 6(b)

Words inserted (E.W.) by Marriage Act 1983 (c. 32, SIF 49:1), s. 1(7), Sch. 1 para. 10(b)

Word repealed by Marriage (Registration of Buildings) Act 1990 (c. 33, SIF 49:1), s. 1(1)

S. 41(2) substituted by Marriage Acts Amendment Act 1958 (c. 29), s. 1(1)(a)

Sum in s. 41(6) substituted (1.4.1992) by virtue of S.I. 1992/99, art. 2,Sch. (which S.I. revokes S.I. 1990/2515)

S. 41(7) substituted by Marriage (Registration of Buildings) Act 1990 (c. 33, SIF 49:1), s. 1(1)

S. 44(3) applied by Marriage (Registrar General's Licence) Act 1970 (c. 34), s. 10(3)

S. 45A inserted (E.W.) by Marriage Act 1983 (c. 32, SIF 49:1), s. 1(7), Sch. 1 para. 11

S. 48 applied with modifications by Marriage (Registrar General's Licence) Act 1970 (c. 34), s. 12

S. 49 applied (with modifications) by Marriage (Registrar General's Licence) Act 1970 (c. 34), s. 13

S. 49(h) and word “or” immediately preceding it inserted (E.W.) by Marriage Act 1983 (c. 32, SIF 49:1), s. 1(7), Sch. 1 para. 13

Words inserted (E.W.) by Marriage Act 1983 (c. 32, SIF 49:1), s. 1(7), Sch. 1 para. 14

S. 51(1): by S.I. 1992/99, art. 2, Sch. (which S.I. revokes S.I. 1990/2515), it is provided (1.4.1992) that the fee of registrar for attending marriage - (i) at a register office is £17.00 and (ii) at a registered building or at the place where a house-bound or detained person usually resides is £28.00 and that s. 51(1) shall have effect accordingly.

“(1)” inserted (E.W.) by Marriage Act 1983 (c. 32, SIF 49:1), s. 1(7), Sch. 1 para. 15

Figures substituted by S.I. 1972/911

S. 51(2) added (E.W.) by Marriage Act 1983 (c. 32, SIF 49:1), s. 1(7), Sch. 1 para. 15

Sum in s. 51(2) substituted (1.4.1992) by virtue of S.I. 1992/99, art. 2, Sch. (which S.I. was revoked by S.I. 1990/2515)

S. 46A inserted (24.2.1995) by 1994 c. 34, s. 1(2); S.I. 1995/424, art. 2(1)(a)

S. 46B inserted (in force for specified purposes on 24.2.1995 and 1.4.1995 respectively) by 1994 c. 34, s. 1(2); S.I. 1995/424, art. 2(1)(a)(2)(b)

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/12-13-14/76/part/III/1992-04-01Marriage Act 1949An Act to consolidate certain enactments relating to the solemnization and registration of marriages in England with such corrections and improvements as may be authorised under the Consolidation of Enactments (Procedure) Act, 1949.1974-12-31texttext/xmlenStatute Law Database2024-08-141992-04-01Part III Marriage under Superintendent Registrar’s Certificate Issue of certificates
26 Marriages which may be solemnized on authority of superintendent registrar’s certificate.1

Subject to the provisions of this Part of this Act, the following marriages may be solemnized on the authority of a certificate of a superintendent registrar—

a

a marriage in a registered building according to such form and ceremony as the persons to be married see fit to adopt;

b

a marriage in the office of a superintendent registrar;

c

a marriage according to the usages of the Society of Friends (commonly called Quakers);

d

a marriage between two persons professing the Jewish religion according to the usages of the Jews;

dd

the marriage (other than a marriage in pursuance of paragraph (c) or (d) above) of a person who is house-bound or is a detained person at the place where he or she usually resides;

e

a marriage according to the rites of the Church of England in any church or chapel in which banns of matrimony may be published.

2

A marriage on the authority of a certificate of a superintendent registrar may be either by a licence issued by the superintendent registrar or without a licence:

Provided that a superintendent registrar shall not issue a licence for a marriage intended to be solemnized at a person’s residence in pursuance of subsection (1)(dd) of this section or for a marriage in any church or chapel in which marriages may be solemnized according to the rites of the Church of England, or in any church or chapel belonging to the Church of England or licensed for the celebration of divine worship according to the rites and ceremonies of the Church of England.

27 Notice of marriage.1

Where a marriage is intended to be solemnized on the authority of a certificate of a superintendent registrar without licence, notice of marriage in the prescribed form shall be given—

a

if the persons to be married have resided in the same registration district for the period of seven days immediately before the giving of the notice, by either of those persons to the superintendent registrar of that district;

b

if the persons to be married have not resided in the same registration district for the said period of seven days as aforesaid, by either of those persons to the superintendent registrar of each registration district in which one of them has resided for that period.

2

Where a marriage is intended to be solemnized as aforesaid by licence, then, whether the persons to be married reside in the same or in different registration districts, notice of marriage in the prescribed form shall be given by either of those persons to the superintendent registrar of the registration district in which one of them has resided for the period of fifteen days immediately before the giving of the notice, and it shall not be required that notice of marriage shall be given to more than one superintendent registrar.

3

A notice of marriage shall state the name and surname, marital status, occupation and place of residence of each of the persons to be married and in the case of a marriage intended to be solemnized at a person’s residence in pursuance of section 26(1)(dd) of this Act, which residence is to be the place of solemnization of the marriage and, in any other case, the church or other building in which the marriage is to be solemnized and—

a

in the case of a marriage intended to be solemnized without licence, shall state the period, not being less than seven days, during which each of the persons to be married has resided in his or her place of residence;

b

in the case of a marriage intended to be solemnized by licence, shall state the period, not being less than fifteen days, during which one of the persons to be married has resided in the district in which notice of marriage is given:

Provided that if either of the persons to be married has resided in the place stated in the notice for more than one month, the notice may state that he or she has resided there for more than one month.

4

The superintendent registrar shall file all notices of marriage and keep them with the records of his office, and shall subject to section 27A of this Act also forthwith enter the particulars given in every such notice, together with the date of the notice and the name of the person by whom the notice was given, in a book (in this Act referred to as “the marriage notice book”) furnished to him for that purpose by the Registrar General, and the marriage notice book shall be open for inspection free of charge at all reasonable hours.

5

If the persons to be married wish to be married in the presence of a registrar in a registered building for which an authorised person has been appointed, they shall, at the time when notice of marriage is given to the superintendent registrar under this section, give notice to him that they require a registrar to be present at the marriage.

6

The superintendent registrar shall be entitled to a fee of £16.00 for every entry made in the marriage notice book under this section.

7

The superintendent registrar shall be entitled to receive from any person intending to be married in pursuance of section 26(1)(dd) of this Act upon whom he attends at a place other than his office in order to be given notice of marriage under this section the sum of £30.00.

27A Additional information required in certain cases.1

This section applies in relation to any marriage intended to be solemnized at a person’s residence in pursuance of section 26(1)(dd) of this Act, and in the following provisions of this section that person is referred to as “the relevant person”.

2

Where the relevant person is not a detained person, the notice of marriage required by section 27 of this Act shall be accompanied by a medical statement relating to that person made not more than fourteen days before the date on which the notice is given.

3

Where the relevant person is a detained person, the notice of marriage required by section 27 of this Act shall be accompanied by a statement made in the prescribed form by the responsible authority not more than twenty-one days before the date on which notice of the marriage is given under section 27—

a

identifying the establishment where the person is detained; and

b

stating that the responsible authority has no objection to that establishment being specified in the notice of marriage as the place where that marriage is to be solemnized.

4

The person who gives notice of the marriage to the superintendent registrar in accordance with section 27 of this Act shall give the superintendent registrar the prescribed particulars, in the prescribed form, of the person by or before whom the marriage is intended to be solemnized.

5

The superintendent registrar shall not enter the particulars given in the notice of the marriage in the marriage notice book until he has received the statement and the particulars required by subsections (2) or (3) and (4) of this section.

6

The fact that a superintendent registrar has received a statement under subsection (2) or (as the case may be) (3) of this section shall be entered in the marriage notice book together with the particulars given in the notice of marriage and any such statement together with the form received under subsection (4) of this section shall be filed and kept with the records of the office of the superintendent register or, where notice of marriage is required to be given to two superintendent registrars, of either of them.

7

In this section—

medical statement”, in relation to any person, means a statement made in the prescribed form by a registered medical practitioner that in his opinion at the time the statement is made—

a

by reason of illness or disability, he or she ought not to move or be moved from the place where he or she is at the time, and

b

it is likely that it will be the case for at least the following three months that by reason of the illness or disability he or she ought not to move or be moved from that place; and

registered medical practitioner” has the meaning given by Schedule 1 to the Interpretation Act 1978; and

responsible authority” means—

a

if the person is detained in a hospital (within the meaning of Part II of the Mental Health Act 1983), the managers of that hospital (within the meaning of section 145(1) of that Act); or

b

if the person is detained in a prison or other place to which the Prison Act 1952 applies, the governor or other officer for the time being in charge of that prison or other place.

27B Provisions relating to section 1(3) marriages.1

This section applies in relation to any marriage mentioned in subsection (2) of section 1 of this Act which is intended to be solemnized on the authority of a certificate of a superintendent registrar.

2

The superintendent registrar shall not enter notice of the marriage in the marriage notice book unless—

a

he is satisfied by the production of evidence that both the persons to be married have attained the age of twenty-one; and

b

he has received a declaration made in the prescribed form by each of those persons, each declaration having been signed and attested in the prescribed manner, specifying their affinal relationship and declaring that the younger of those persons has not at any time before attaining the age of eighteen been a child of the family in relation to the other.

3

The fact that a superintendent registrar has received a declaration under subsection (2) of this section shall be entered in the marriage notice book together with the particulars given in the notice of marriage and any such declaration shall be filed and kept with the records of the office of the superintendent registrar or, where notice of marriage is required to be given to two superintendent registrars, of each of them.

4

Where the superintendent registrar receives from some person other than the persons to be married a written statement signed by that person which alleges that the declaration made under subsection (2) of this section is false in a material particular, the superintendent registrar shall not issue a certificate or licence unless a declaration is obtained from the High Court under subsection (5) of this section.

5

Either of the persons to be married may, whether or not any statement has been received by the superintendent registrar under subsection (4) of this section, apply to the High Court for a declaration that, both those persons having attained the age of twenty-one and the younger of those persons not having at any time before attaining the age of eighteen been a child of the family in relation to the other, there is no impediment of affinity to the solemnization of the marriage; and where such a declaration is obtained the superintendent registrar may enter notice of the marriage in the marriage notice book and may issue a certificate, or certificate and licence, whether or not any declaration has been made under subsection (2) of this section.

6

Section 29 of this Act shall not apply in relation to a marriage to which this section applies, except so far as a caveat against the issue of a certificate or licence for the marriage is entered under that section on a ground other than the relationship of the persons to be married.

27C Provisions relating to section 1(5) marriages.

In the case of a marriage mentioned in subsection (4) of section 1 of this Act which by virtue of subsection (5) of that section is valid only if at the time of the marriage both the parties to the marriage have attained the age of twenty-one and the death has taken place of two other persons related to those parties in the manner mentioned in the said subsection (5), the superintendent registrar shall not enter notice of the marriage in the marriage notice book unless satisfied by the production of evidence—

a

that both the parties to the marriage have attained the age of twenty-one, and

b

that both those other persons are dead.

28 Declaration to accompany notice of marriage. 1

No certificate or licence for marriage shall be issued by a superintendent registrar unless the notice of marriage is accompanied by a solemn declaration in writing, in the body or at the foot of the notice, made and signed at the time of the giving of the notice by the person by whom the notice is given and attested as mentioned in subsection (2) of this section—

a

that he or she believes that there is no impediment of kindred or alliance or other lawful hindrance to the marriage;

b

in the case of a marriage intended to be solemnized without licence, that the persons to be married have for the period of seven days immediately before the giving of the notice had their usual places of residence within the registration district or registration districts in which notice is given, or, in the case of a marriage intended to be solemnized by licence, that one of the persons to be married has for the period of fifteen days immediately before the giving of the notice had his or her usual place of residence within the registration district in which notice is given;

c

where one of the persons to be married is an infanta child and is not a widower or widow, that the consent of the person or persons whose consent to the marriage is required under section three of this Act has been obtained, that the necessity of obtaining any such consent has been dispensed with under that section, that the court has consented to the marriage under that section, or that there is no person whose consent to the marriage is so required.

2

Any such declaration as aforesaid shall be signed by the person giving the notice of marriage in the presence of the superintendent registrar to whom the notice is given or his deputy, or in the presence of a registrar of births and deaths or of marriages for the registration district in which the person giving the notice resides or his deputy, and that superintendent registrar, deputy superintendent registrar, registrar or deputy registrar, as the case may be, shall attest the declaration by adding thereto his name, description and place of residence.

28A Power to require evidence.1

A superintendent registrar to whom a notice of marriage is given under section 27, or any other person attesting a declaration accompanying such a notice, may require the person giving the notice to provide him with specified evidence—

a

relating to that person; or

b

if the superintendent registrar considers that the circumstances are exceptional, relating to each of the persons to be married.

2

Such a requirement may be imposed at any time—

a

on or after the giving of the notice of marriage; but

b

before the superintendent registrar issues his certificate under section 31.

3

Specified evidence”, in relation to a person, means such evidence of that person’s—

a

name and surname,

b

age,

c

marital status, and

d

nationality,

as may be specified in guidance issued by the Registrar General.

29 Caveat against issue of certificate or licence. 1

Any person . . . may enter a caveat with the superintendent registrar against the issue of a certificate or licence for the marriage of any person named therein.

2

If any caveat is entered as aforesaid, the caveat having been signed by or on behalf of the person by whom it was entered and stating his place of residence and the ground of objection on which the caveat is founded, no certificate or licence shall be issued until the superintendent registrar has examined into the matter of the caveat and is satisfied that it ought not to obstruct the issue of the certificate or licence, or until the caveat has been withdrawn by the person who entered it; and if the superintendent registrar is doubtful whether to issue a certificate or licence he may refer the matter of the caveat to the Registrar General.

3

Where a superintendent registrar refuses, by reason of any such caveat as aforesaid, to issue a certificate or licence, the person applying therefor may appeal to the Registrar General who shall either confirm the refusal or direct that a certificate or licence shall be issued.

4

Any person who enters a caveat against the issue of a certificate or licence on grounds which the Registrar General declares to be frivolous and to be such that they ought not to obstruct the issue of the certificate or licence, shall be liable for the costs of the proceedings before the Registrar General and for damages recoverable by the person against whose marriage the caveat was entered.

5

For the purpose of enabling any person to recover any such costs and damages as aforesaid, a copy of the declaration of the Registrar General purporting to be sealed with the seal of the General Register Office shall be evidence that the Registrar General has declared the caveat to have been entered on grounds which are frivolous and such that they ought not to obstruct the issue of the certificate or licence.

30 Forbidding of issue of certificate.

Any person whose consent to a marriage intended to be solemnized on the authority of a certificate of a superintendent registrar is required under section three of this Act may forbid the issue of such a certificate by writing, at any time before the issue of the certificate, the word “forbidden” opposite to the entry of the notice of marriage in the marriage notice book, and by subscribing thereto his name and place of residence and the capacity, in relation to either of the persons to be married, in which he forbids the issue of the certificate; and where the issue of a certificate has been so forbidden, the notice of marriage and all proceedings thereon shall be void:

Provided that where, by virtue of paragraph (b) of the proviso to subsection (1) of the said section three, the court has consented to a marriage and the consent of the court has the same effect as if it had been given by a person whose consent has been refused, that person shall not be entitled to forbid the issue of a certificate for that marriage under this section, and the notice of marriage and the proceedings thereon shall not be void by virtue of this section.

31 Marriage under certificate without licence.1

Where a marriage is intended to be solemnized on the authority of a certificate of a superintendent registrar without licence, the superintendent registrar to whom notice of marriage has been given shall suspend or affix in some conspicuous place in his office, for twenty-one successive days next after the day on which the notice was entered in the marriage book, the notice of marriage, or an exact copy signed by him of the particulars thereof as entered in the marriage notice book.

2

At the expiration of the said period of twenty-one days the superintendent registrar, on the request of the person by whom the notice of marriage was given, shall issue a certificate in the prescribed form unless—

a

any lawful impediment to the issue of the certificate has been shown to the satisfaction of the superintendent registrar; or

b

the issue of the certificate has been forbidden under the last foregoing section by any person authorised in that behalf.

3

Every such certificate shall set out the particulars contained in the notice of marriage and the day on which the notice was entered in the marriage notice book and shall contain a statement that the issue of the certificate has not been forbidden as aforesaid.

4

No marriage shall be solemnized on the production of a certificate of a superintendent registrar without licence until after the expiration of the said period of twenty-one days.

5

Where a marriage is to be solemnized in a registered building for which an authorised person has been appointed and no notice requiring a registrar to be present at the marriage has been given to the superintendent registrar under subsection (5) of section twenty-seven of this Act, the superintendent registrar shall, when issuing a certificate under this section, give to one of the persons to be married printed instructions in the prescribed form for the due solemnization of the marriage.

6

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31A Appeal on refusal under section 31(2)(a).1

If, relying on section 31(2)(a), a superintendent registrar refuses to issue a certificate, the person applying for it may appeal to the Registrar General.

2

On such an appeal, the Registrar General must—

a

confirm the refusal; or

b

direct that a certificate be issued.

3

If—

a

relying on section 31(2)(a), a superintendent registrar refuses to issue a certificate as a result of a representation made to him, and

b

on an appeal against the refusal, the Registrar General declares the representation to have been frivolous and to be such that it ought not to obstruct the issue of a certificate,

the person making the representation is liable for the costs of the proceedings before the Registrar General and for damages recoverable by the applicant for the certificate.

4

For the purpose of enabling a person to recover any such costs and damages, a copy of the declaration of the Registrar General purporting to be sealed with the seal of the General Register Office is evidence that the Registrar General has declared the representation to have been frivolous and to be such that it ought not to obstruct the issue of a certificate.

32 Marriage under certificate by licence.1

Where a marriage is intended to be solemnized on the authority of a certificate of a superintendent registrar by licence, the person by whom notice of marriage is given shall state in the notice that the marriage is intended to be solemnized by licence, and the notice shall not be suspended in the office of the superintendent registrar.

2

Where a notice of marriage containing such a statement as aforesaid has been received by a superintendent registrar, then, after the expiration of one whole day next after the day on which the notice was entered in the marriage notice book, the superintendent registrar, on the request of the person by whom the notice was given, shall issue a certificate and a licence in the prescribed form unless—

a

any lawful impediment to the issue of the certificate has been shown to the satisfaction of the superintendent registrar; or

b

the issue of the certificate has been forbidden under section thirty of this Act by any person authorised in that behalf.

3

Every such certificate shall set out the particulars contained in the notice of marriage and the day on which the notice was entered in the marriage notice book, and shall contain a statement that the issue of the certificate has not been forbidden as aforesaid.

4

Where a marriage is to be solemnized in a registered building for which an authorised person has been appointed and no notice requiring a registrar to be present at the marriage has been given to the superintendent registrar under subsection (5) of section twenty-seven of this Act, the superintendent registrar shall, when issuing a certificate and licence under this section, give to one of the persons to be married printed instructions in the prescribed form for the due solemnization of the marriage.

5

A superintendent registrar shall be entitled to receive for every certificate issued by him under this section a fee of one shilling and sixpence and for every licence so issued the sum of £43.00 over and above the amount paid for the stamps necessary on the issue of the licence.

6

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33 Period of validity of certificate and licence.1

A marriage may be solemnized on the authority of a certificate of a superintendent registrar, whether by licence or without licence, at any time within three months from the day on which the notice of marriage was entered in the marriage notice book.

2

If the marriage is not solemnized within the said period of three months, the notice of marriage and the certificate, and any licence which may have been granted thereon, shall be void, and no person shall solemnize the marriage on the authority thereof.

34 Marriages normally to be solemnized in registration district in which one of parties resides.

Subject to the provisions of the next following section, a superintendent registrar shall not issue a certificate for the solemnization of a marriage in a building which is notelsewhere than within a registration district in which one of the persons to be married has resided, in the case of a marriage without licence, for the period of seven days immediately before the giving of the notice of marriage or, in the case of a marriage by licence, for the period of fifteen days immediately before the giving of that notice.

35 Marriages in registration district in which neither party resides.1

A superintendent registrar may issue a certificate, or if the marriage is to be by licence, a certificate and a licence, for the solemnization of a marriage in a registered building which is not within a registration district in which either of the persons to be married resides, where the person giving the notice of marriage declares by endorsement thereon in the prescribed form—

a

that the persons to be married desire the marriage to be solemnized according to a specified form, rite or ceremony, being a form, rite or ceremony of a body or denomination of christians or other persons meeting for religious worship to which one of them professes to belong.

b

that, to the best of his or her belief, there is not within the registration district in which one of them resides any registered building in which marriage is solemnized according to that form, rite or ceremony;

c

the registration district nearest to the residence of that person in which there is a registered building in which marriage may be so solemnized; and

d

the registered building in that district in which the marriage is intended to be solemnized;

and where any such certificate or certificate and licence is issued, the marriage may be solemnized in the registered building stated in the notice.

2

A superintendent registrar may issue a certificate or, if the marriage is to be by licence, a certificate and a licence, for the solemnization of a marriage in a registered building which is the usual place of worship of the persons to be married, or of one of them, notwithstanding that the building is not within a registration district in which either of those persons resides.

3

A superintendent registrar may issue a certificate for the solemnization of a marriage in any parish church or authorised chapel which is the usual place of worship of the persons to be married, or of one of them, notwithstanding that the church or chapel is not within a registration district in which either of those persons resides.

4

A superintendent registrar may issue a certificate or, if the marriage is to be by licence, a certificate and a licence, for the solemnization of a marriage according to the usages of the Society of Friends or in accordance with the usages of persons professing the Jewish religion, notwithstanding that the building or place in which the marriage is to be solemnized is not within a registration district in which either of the persons to be married resides.

5

Where a marriage is intended to be solemnized on the authority of a certificate of a superintendent registrar issued under subsection (2) or subsection (3) of this section, the notice of marriage given to the superintendent registrar and the certificate issued by the superintendent registrar shall state, in addition to the description of the registered building or, as the case may be, the parish church or authorised chapel, in which the marriage is to be solemnized, that it is the usual place of worship of the persons to be married or of one of them and, in the latter case, shall state the name of the person whose usual place of worship it is.

36 Superintendent registrar to issue licences only for marriages to be solemnized in his registration district.

Subject to the provisions of the last foregoing section, a superintendent registrar shall not issue a licence for the solemnization of a marriage—

a

in a registered building which is not within his registration district;

b

in the office of any other superintendent registrar.

37 One party resident in Scotland.1

Where a marriage is intended to be solemnized in England on the authority of a certificate of a superintendent registrar without licence between parties of whom one is residing in Scotland and the other is residing in England, the following provisions shall have effect—

a

the party residing in Scotland may give notice of the intended marriage in accordance with section 7 of the Marriage (Scotland) Act 1977;

b

the party residing in England may, subject to and in accordance with the provisions of sections twenty-seven 27A and twenty-eight of this Act, give notice of the intended marriage as if both parties were residing in different registration districts in England, and the provisions of this Part of this Act relating to notices of marriage and the issue of certificates for marriage shall apply accordingly;

c

a certificate issued under section 7(2) of the Marriage (Scotland) Act 1977 to a party shall, for the purpose of that party’s intended marriage, have the like force and effect in all respects as a certificate for marriage issued by a superintendent registrar under this Part of this Act;

d

for the purposes of section thirty-three of this Act the notice given in Scotland shall be deemed to have been entered in a marriage notice book by a superintendent registrar in England on the day on which it was given.

2

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

38 One party resident in Northern Ireland.1

Where a marriage is intended to be solemnized in England on the authority of a certificate of a superintendent registrar without licence between parties of whom one is residing in Northern Ireland and the other is residing in England, the party residing in Northern Ireland may give notice of marriage in the form used for that purpose in Northern Ireland or to the like effect to the registrar of the district in Northern Ireland in which he or she has resided for not less than seven days immediately before the giving of the notice.

2

Any such notice as aforesaid shall state the name and surname, marital status, occupation, age and place of residence of each of the persons to be married and the period, not being less than seven days, during which each of them has resided in that place and the church or other building in whichplace where the marriage is to be solemnized:

Provided that if either of the persons to be married has resided in the place stated in the notice for more than one month, the notice may state that he or she has resided there for more than one month.

3

Any such notice as aforesaid shall be dealt with, and a certificate for marriage issued by the registrar, in the manner prescribed by the Marriages (Ireland) Act, 1844, as amended by the Marriages (Ireland) Act, 1846, and the Marriage Law (Ireland) Amendment Act, 1863:

Provided that the registrar shall not issue a certificate until the expiration of twenty-one days from the day on which the notice was entered in the marriage notice book required to be kept under the said Marriages (Ireland) Act, 1844.

4

The production to the person by whom the marriage is to be solemnized of a certificate issued under the last foregoing subsection shall be as valid for authorising that person to solemnize the marriage as the production of a certificate for marriage of a superintendent registrar of a registration district in England would be in the case of a person residing in that district.

39 Issue of certificates on board His Majesty’s ships.1

Where a marriage is intended to be solemnized in England on the authority of a certificate of a superintendent registrar without licence between parties of whom one is residing in England and the other is an officer, seaman, or marine borne on the books of one of His Majesty’s ships at sea, the last-mentioned party may give notice of his intention to the captain or other officer commanding the ship, together with the name and address of the other party to the marriage, and such other information as may be necessary to enable the captain or other officer to fill up a certificate under this section, and shall at the same time make and sign such a declaration as is required by section twenty-eight of this Act, and the captain or other officer may attest the declaration and thereupon issue a certificate to the officer, seaman or marine giving the notice.

2

A certificate issued under this section shall be in such form as may be prescribed by the Admiralty and shall have the like force and effect as a certificate issued by a superintendent registrar under this Part of this Act, and all provisions of this Act (including penal provisions but excluding sections 27A and 27B) relating to notices and declarations for obtaining certificates from superintendent registrars and to such certificates shall apply in the case of certificates issued under this section, subject to such adaptations therein as may be made by His Majesty by Order in Council.

3

Where a marriage is intended to be solemnized in England as aforesaid and a certificate has been issued to one of the parties under this section, the superintendent registrar of the registration district in which the other party is residing may accept notice of marriage given by that party, subject to and in accordance with the provisions of sections twenty-seven 27A and twenty-eight of this Act, as if both parties were residing in different registration districts in England, and the provisions of this Part of this Act relating to notices of marriage and the issue of certificates for marriage shall apply accordingly.

40 Forms of certificates to be furnished by Registrar General.1

The Registrar General shall furnish to every superintendent registrar a sufficient number of forms of certificates for marriage.

2

In order to distinguish the certificates to be issued for marriages by licence from the certificates to be issued for marriages without licence, a watermark in the form of the word “licence”, in Roman letters, shall be laid and manufactured in the substance of the paper on which the certificates to be issued for marriage by licence are written or printed, and every certificate to be issued for marriage by licence shall be printed with red ink and every certificate to be issued for marriage without licence shall be printed with black ink, and such other distinctive marks between the two kinds of certificates as the Registrar General may from time to time think fit shall be used.

Marriages in registered buildings
41 Registration of buildings.1

Any proprietor or trustee of a . . . building, which has been certified as required by law as a place of religious worship may apply to the superintendent registrar of the registration district in which the building is situated for the building to be registered for the solemnization of marriages therein.

2

Any person making such an application as aforesaid shall deliver to the superintendent registrar a certificate, signed in duplicate by at least twenty householders and dated not earlier than one month before the making of the application, stating that the building is being used by them as their usual place of public religious worship and that they desire that the building should be registered as aforesaid, and both certificates shall be countersigned by the proprietor or trustee by whom they are delivered.

3

The superintendent registrar shall send both certificates delivered to him under the last foregoing subsection to the Registrar General who shall register the building in a book to be kept for that purpose in the General Register Office.

4

The Registrar General shall endorse on both certificates sent to him as aforesaid the date of the registration, and shall keep one certificate with the records of the General Register Office and shall return the other certificate to the superintendent registrar who shall keep it with the records of his office.

5

On the return of the certificate under the last foregoing subsection, the superintendent registrar shall—

a

enter the date of the registration of the building in a book to be provided for that purpose by the Registrar General;

b

give a certificate of the registration signed by him, on durable materials, to the proprietor or trustee by whom the certificates delivered to him under subsection (2) of this section were countersigned; and

c

give public notice of the registration of the building by advertisement in some newspaper circulating in the county in which the building is situated and in the London Gazette.

6

For every entry, certificate and notice made or given under the last foregoing subsection the superintendent registrar shall be entitled to receive, at the time of the delivery of the certificates under subsection (2) of this section, the sum of £88.00

7

A building may be registered for the solemnization of marriages under this section whether it is a separate building or forms part of another building.

42 Cancellation of registration and substitution of another building.1

Where, on an application made by or through the superintendent registrar of the registration district in which the building is situated, it is shown to the satisfaction of the Registrar General that a registered building is no longer used for the purpose of public religious worship by the congregation on whose behalf it was registered, he shall cause the registration to be cancelled . . .

2

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

3

Where the Registrar General cancels the registration of any building, . . . , under this section, he shall inform the superintendent registrar who shall enter that fact and the date thereof in the book provided for the registration of buildings, and shall certify and publish the cancellation . . . , in the manner provided by subsection (5) of the last foregoing section in the case of the . . . registration of a building.

4

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

5

Where the registration of any building has been cancelled, . . . under this section, it shall not be lawful to solemnize any marriage in the disused building, unless the building has been registered again in accordance with the provisions of this Part of this Act.

43 Appointment of authorised persons.1

For the purpose of enabling marriages to be solemnized in a registered building without the presence of a registrar, the trustees or governing body of that building may authorise a person to be present at the solemnization of marriages in that building and, where a person is so authorised in respect of any registered building, the trustees or governing body of that building shall, within the prescribed time and in the prescribed manner, certify the name and address of the person so authorised to the Registrar General and to the superintendent registrar of the registration district in which the building is situated.

Provided that, in relation to a building which becomes registered after the thirty-first day of December, nineteen hundred and fifty-eight, the power conferred by this subsection to authorise a person to be present as aforesaid shall not be exercisable before the expiration of one year from the date of registration of the building or, where the congregation on whose behalf the building is registered previously used for the purpose of public religious worship another building of which the registration has been cancelled not earlier than one month before the date of registration aforesaid, one year from the date of registration of that other building.

2

Any person whose name and address have been certified as aforesaid is in this Act referred to as an “authorised person”.

3

Nothing in this section shall be taken to relate or have any reference to marriages solemnized according to the usages of the Society of Friends or of persons professing the Jewish religion.

44 Solemnization of marriage in registered building.1

Subject to the provisions of this section, where a notice of marriage and certificate issued by a superintendent registrar state that a marriage between the persons named therein is intended to be solemnized in a registered building, the marriage may be solemnized in that building according to such form and ceremony as those persons may see fit to adopt:

Provided that no marriage shall be solemnized in any registered building without the consent of the minister or of one of the trustees, owners, deacons or managers thereof, or in the case of a registered building of the Roman Catholic Church, without the consent of the officiating minister thereof.

2

Subject to the provisions of this section, a marriage solemnized in a registered building shall be solemnized with open doors in the presence of two or more witnesses and in the presence of either—

a

a registrar of the registration district in which the registered building is situated, or

b

an authorised person whose name and address have been certified in accordance with the last foregoing section by the trustees or governing body of that registered building or of some other registered building in the same registration district.

3

Where a marriage is solemnized in a registered building each of the persons contracting the marriage shall, in some part of the ceremony and in the presence of the witnesses and the registrar or authorised person, make the following declaration:—

“I do solemnly declare that I know not of any lawful impediment why I,AB, may not be joined in matrimony toCD

and each of them shall say to the other:—

“I call upon these persons here present to witness that I,AB, do take thee,CD, to be my lawful wedded wife [orhusband]”:

Provided that if the marriage is solemnized in the presence of an authorised person without the presence of a registrar, the persons to be married, instead of saying each to the other the last-mentioned form of words, may say:—

“I,AB, do take thee,CD, to be my wedded wife [orhusband]”.

4

A marriage shall not be solemnized in a registered building without the presence of a registrar until duplicate marriage register books have been supplied by the Registrar General under Part IV of this Act to the authorised person or to the trustees or governing body of the building.

5

If the Registrar General is not satisfied with respect to any building registered or proposed to be registered for the solemnization of marriages therein that sufficient security exists for the due registration of marriages by an authorised person under Part IV of this Act and for the safe custody of marriage register books, he may in his discretion attach to the continuance of the registration, or to the registration, of the building a condition that no marriage may be solemnized therein without the presence of a registrar.

Marriages in register offices
45 Solemnization of marriage in register office.1

Where a marriage is intended to be solemnized on the authority of a certificate of a superintendent registrar, the persons to be married may state in the notice of marriage that they wish to be married in the office of the superintendent registrar or one of the superintendent registrars, as the case may be, to whom notice of marriage is given, and where any such notice has been given and the certificate or certificate and licence, as the case may be, has or have been issued accordingly, the marriage may be solemnized in the said office, with open doors, in the presence of the superintendent registrar and a registrar of the registration district of that superintendent registrar and in the presence of two witnesses, and the persons to be married shall make the declarations and use the form of words set out in subsection (3) of the last foregoing section in the case of marriages in registered buildings in the presence of a registrar.

2

No religious service shall be used at any marriage solemnized in the office of a superintendent registrar.

45A Solemnization of certain marriages.1

This section applies to marriages solemnized, otherwise than according to the rites of the Church of England, in pursuance of section 26(1)(dd) of this Act at the place where a person usually resides.

2

The marriage may be solemnized according to a relevant form, rite or ceremony in the presence of a registrar of the registration district in which the place where the marriage is solemnized is situated and of two witnesses and each of the persons contracting the marriage shall make the declaration and use the form of words set out in subsection (3) of section 44 of this Act in the case of marriages in registered buildings in the presence of a registrar.

3

Where the marriage is not solemnized in pursuance of subsection (2) of this section it shall be solemnized in the presence of the superintendent registrar and a registrar of the registration district in which the place where the marriage is solemnized is situated and in the presence of two witnesses, and the persons to be married shall make the declarations and use the form of words set out in subsection (3) of section 44 of this Act in the case of marriages in registered buildings in the presence of a registrar.

4

No religious service shall be used at any marriage solemnized in the presence of a superintendent registrar.

5

In subsection (2) of this section a “relevant form, rite or ceremony” means a form, rite or ceremony of a body of persons who meet for religious worship in any registered building being a form, rite or ceremony in accordance with which members of that body are married in any such registered building.

46 Register office marriage followed by religious ceremony.1

If the parties to a marriage solemnized in the office of a superintendent registrarsolemnised in the presence of a superintendent registrar desire to add the religious ceremony ordained or used by the church or persuasion of which they are members, they may present themselves, after giving notice of their intention so to do, to the clergyman or minister of the church or persuasion of which they are members, and the clergyman or minister, upon the production of a certificate of their marriage before the superintendent registrar and upon the payment of the customary fees (if any), may, if he sees fit, read or celebrate in the church or chapel of which he is the regular minister the marriage service of the church or persuasion to which be belongs or nominate some other minister to do so.

2

Nothing in the reading or celebration of a marriage service under this section shall supersede or invalidate any marriage previously solemnized in the office of a superintendent registrarsolemnised in the presence of a superintendent registrar, and the reading or celebration shall not be entered as a marriage in any marriage register book kept under Part IV of this Act.

3

No person who is not entitled to solemnize marriages according to the rites of the Church of England shall by virtue of this section be entitled to read or celebrate the marriage service in any church or chapel of the Church of England.

Marriages on approved premises
46A Approval of premises.1

The Secretary of State may by regulations make provision for and in connection with the approval by local authorities of premises for the solemnization of marriages in pursuance of section 26(1)(bb) of this Act.

2

The matters dealt with by the regulations may include—

a

the kinds of premises in respect of which approvals may be granted;

b

the procedure to be followed in relation to applications for approval;

c

the considerations to be taken into account by a local authority in determining whether to approve any premises;

d

the duration and renewal of approvals;

e

the conditions that must or may be imposed by a local authority on granting or renewing an approval;

f

the determination and charging by local authorities of fees in respect of applications for the approval of premises and in respect of the renewal of approvals;

g

the circumstances in which a local authority must or may revoke an approval;

h

the review of any decision to refuse an approval or the renewal of an approval, to impose conditions on granting or renewing an approval or to revoke an approval;

i

the notification to the Registrar General of all approvals granted, renewed or revoked;

j

the keeping by local authorities of registers of approved premises;

k

the issue by the Registrar General of guidance supplementing the provision made by the regulations.

3

In this section “local authority” means a county council, metropolitan district council or London borough council.

4

Regulations under this section may make different provision for different cases or circumstances.

5

Any regulations under this section shall be made by statutory instrument, subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.

46B Solemnization of marriage on approved premises.1

Any marriage on approved premises in pursuance of section 26(1)(bb) of this Act shall be solemnized in the presence of—

a

two witnesses, and

b

the superintendent registrar and a registrar of the registration district in which the premises are situated.

2

Without prejudice to the width of section 46A(2)(e) of this Act, the Secretary of State shall exercise his power to provide for the imposition of conditions as there mentioned so as to secure that members of the public are permitted to attend any marriage solemnized on approved premises in pursuance of section 26(1)(bb) of this Act.

3

Each of the persons contracting such a marriage shall make the declaration and use the form of words set out in section 44(3) of this Act in the case of marriages in registered buildings in the presence of a registrar.

4

No religious service shall be used at a marriage on approved premises in pursuance of section 26(1)(bb) of this Act.

Marriages according to usages of Society of Friends
47 Marriages according to usages of Society of Friends.1

No person who is not a member of the Society of Friends shall be married according to the usages of that Society unless he or she is authorised to be so married under or in pursuance of a general rule of the said Society in England.

2

A marriage solemnized according to the said usages shall not be valid unless either—

a

the person giving notice of marriage declares, either verbally or, if so required, in writing, that each of the parties to the marriage is either a member of the Society of Friends or is in profession with or of the persuasion of that Society; or

b

there is produced to the superintendent registrar, at the time when notice of marriage is given, a certificate purporting to be signed by a registering officer of the Society of Friends in England to the effect that any party to the marriage who is not a member of the Society of Friends or in profession with or of the persuasion of that Society, is authorised to be married according to the said usages under or in pursuance of a general rule of the said Society in England.

3

Any such certificate as aforesaid shall be for all purposes conclusive evidence that any person to whom it relates is authorised to be married according to the usages of the said Society, and the entry of the marriage in a marriage register book under Part IV of this Act, or a certified copy thereof made under the said Part IV, shall be conclusive evidence of the production of such a certificate.

4

A copy of any general rule of the Society of Friends purporting to be signed by the recording clerk for the time being of the said Society in London shall be admitted as evidence of the general rule in all proceedings touching the validity of any marriage solemnized according to the usages of the said Society.

Miscellaneous Provisions
48 Proof of certain matters not necessary to validity of marriages. 1

Where any marriage has been solemnized under the provisions of this Part of this Act, it shall not be necessary in support of the marriage to give any proof—

a

that before the marriage either of the parties thereto resided, or resided for any period, in the registration district stated in the notice of marriage to be that of his or her place of residence;

b

that any person whose consent to the marriage was required by section three of this Act had given his consent;

c

that the registered building in which the marriage was solemnized had been certified as required by law as a place of religious worship;

d

that that building was the usual place of worship of either of the parties to the marriage; or

e

that the facts stated in a declaration made under subsection (1) of section thirty-five of this Act were correct;

nor shall any evidence be given to prove the contrary in any proceedings touching the validity of the marriage.

2

A marriage solemnized in accordance with the provisions of this Part of this Act in a registered building which has not been certified as required by law as a place of religious worship shall be as valid as if the building had been so certified.

49 Void marriages.

If any persons knowingly and wilfully intermarry under the provisions of this Part of this Act—

a

without having given due notice of marriage to the superintendent registrar;

b

without a certificate for marriage having been duly issued by the superintendent registrar to whom notice of marriage was given;

c

without a licence having been so issued, in a case in which a licence is necessary;

d

on the authority of a certificate which is void by virtue of subsection (2) of section thirty-three of this Act;

e

in any place other than the church, chapel, registered building, office or other place specified in the notice of marriage and certificate of the superintendent registrar;

f

in the case of a marrige in a registered building (not being a marriage in the presence of an authorised person), in the absence of a registrar of the registration district in which the registered building is situated; or

g

in the case of a marriage in the office of a superintendent registrar, in the absence of the superintendent registrar or of a registrar of the registration district of that superinentdent registrar; or

h

in the case of a marriage to which section 45A of this Act applies, in the absence of any superintendent registrar or registrar whose presence at that marriage is required by that section;

the marriage shall be void.

50 Person to whom certificate to be delivered.1

Where a marriage is intended to be solemnized on the authority of a certificate of a superintendent registrar, the certificate or, if notice of marriage has been given to more than one superintendent registrar, the certificates shall be delivered to the following person, that is to say:—

a

if the marrige is to be solemnized in a registered building or at a person’s residence in the presence of a registrar, that registrar;

b

if the marriage is to be solemnized in a registered building without the presence of a registrar, the authorised person in whose presence the marriage is to be solemnized;

c

if the marriage is to be solemnized in the office of a superintendent registrar, the registrar in whose presence the marriage is to be solemnized;

d

if the marriage is to be solemnized according to the usages of the Society of Friends, the registering officer of that Society for the place where the marriage is to be solemnized;

e

if the marriage is to be solemnized according to the usages of persons professing the Jewish religion, the officer of a synagogue by whom the marriage is required to be registered under Part IV of this Act;

f

if the marriage is to be solemnized according to the rites of the Church of England, the officiating clergyman.

2

In the application of the last foregoing subsection to a marriage solemnized otherwise than according to the rites of the Church of England, the reference therein to a certificate shall, if the marriage is by licence, be construed as a reference to the certificate and licence.

3

Where a marriage is solemnized in a registered building without the presence of a registrar, the certificate or certificate and licence, as the case may be, shall be kept in the prescribed custody and shall be produced with the marriage register books kept by the authorised person under Part IV of this Act as and when required by the Registrar General.

51 Fees of registrars for attending marriages.1

A registrar shall be entitled to receive from persons married under this Part of this Act in his presence the sum of £1.50 if the marriage is by licence and, in any other case, the sum of £1.50.

2

A superintendent registrar shall be entitled to receive from persons married in his presence in pursuance of section 26(1)(dd) of this Act the sum of £30.00.

52 Provision for marriages in Welsh language.

The Registrar General shall furnish to every registrar in Wales and in every place in which the Welsh language is commonly used a true and exact translation into the Welsh language of the declaration and form of words required to be used under section forty-four of this Act, and the said translation may be used in any place in which the Welsh language is commonly used in the same manner as is prescribed by the said section forty-four for the use of the declaration and form of words in the English language.

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<note class="commentary F" eId="c6281381">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/Geo6/12-13-14/76/section/27B">Ss. 27B</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/Geo6/12-13-14/76/section/27C">27C</ref>
inserted (E.W.) by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1986/16">Marriage (Prohibited Degrees of Relationship) Act 1986 (c. 16, SIF 49:1)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1986/16/section/1/4/6">s. 1(4)(6)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1986/16/schedule/1/paragraph/5">Sch. 1 para. 5</ref>
</p>
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<note class="commentary F" eId="c6281491">
<p>
S. 28A and sidenote inserted (1.1.2001) by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1999/33">1999 c. 33</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1999/33/section/162/1">s. 162(1)</ref>
;
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2000/2698">S.I. 2000/2698</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2000/2698/article/2">art. 2</ref>
</p>
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<note class="commentary F" eId="c6281781">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/Geo6/12-13-14/76/section/31A">S. 31A</ref>
and sidenote inserted (1.1.2001) by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1999/33">1999 c. 33</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1999/33/section/163/2">s. 163(2)</ref>
;
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2000/2698">S.I. 2000/2698</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2000/2698/article/2">art. 2</ref>
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<note class="commentary F" eId="c6282961">
<p>
Words repealed by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1958/29">Marriage Acts Amendment Act 1958 (c. 29)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1958/29/section/1/1">s. 1(1)</ref>
</p>
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<note class="commentary F" eId="c6282971">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/Geo6/12-13-14/76/section/42/2/4">S. 42(2)(4)</ref>
repealed by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1958/29">Marriage Acts Amendment Act 1958 (c. 29)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1958/29/section/1/1">s. 1(1)</ref>
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<note class="commentary F" eId="c6283031">
<p>
Proviso added by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1958/29">Marriage Acts Amendment Act 1958 (c. 29)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1958/29/section/1/2">s. 1(2)</ref>
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<note class="commentary F" eId="c6283201">
<p>
Words “solemnised in the presence of a superintendent registrar” substituted (E.W.) for words “solemnized in the office of a superintendant registrar” by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1983/32">Marriage Act 1983 (c. 32, SIF 49:1)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1983/32/section/1/7">s. 1(7)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1983/32/schedule/1/paragraph/12">Sch. 1 para. 12</ref>
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary C" eId="c6283221">
<p>
S. 46(2)(3) applied by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1970/34">Marriage (Registrar General's Licence) Act 1970 (c. 34)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1970/34/section/11/2">s. 11(2)</ref>
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary F" eId="c6283261">
<p>
Ss. 46A, 46B and cross-heading inserted (24.2.1995) by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1994/34">1994 c. 34</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1994/34/section/1/2">ss. 1(2)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1994/34/section/3/2">3(2)</ref>
;
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1995/424">S.I. 1995/424</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1995/424/article/2/1/a">art. 2(1)(a)</ref>
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary C" eId="c6280211">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/Geo6/12-13-14/76/part/III">Pt. III</ref>
applied (S.) as to issue of certificates for marriage by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1956/70">Marriage (Scotland) Act 1956 (c. 70)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1956/70/section/1/3">s. 1(3)</ref>
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary F" eId="c6280231">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/Geo6/12-13-14/76/section/26/1">S. 26(1)</ref>
(
<em>dd</em>
) inserted(E.W.) by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1983/32">Marriage Act 1983 (c. 32, SIF 49:1)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1983/32/section/1/7">s. 1(7)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1983/32/schedule/1/paragraph/4">Sch. 1 para. 4</ref>
(
<em>a</em>
)
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary F" eId="c6280241">
<p>
Words inserted (E.W.) by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1983/32">Marriage Act 1983 (c. 32, SIF 49:1)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1983/32/section/1/7">s. 1(7)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1983/32/schedule/1/paragraph/4">Sch. 1 para. 4</ref>
(
<em>a</em>
)
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary C" eId="c6280251">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/Geo6/12-13-14/76/section/26/2">S. 26(2)</ref>
excluded by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1969/38">Sharing of Church Buildings Act 1969 (c. 38)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1969/38/section/6/3">s. 6(3)</ref>
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary F" eId="c6280261">
<p>
Words inserted (E.W.) by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1983/32">Marriage Act 1983 (c. 32, SIF 49:1)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1983/32/section/1/7">s. 1(7)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1983/32/schedule/1/paragraph/4">Sch. 1 para. 4</ref>
(
<em>b</em>
)
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary F" eId="c6280451">
<p>
Words inserted (E.W.) by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1983/32">Marriage Act 1983 (c. 32, SIF 49:1)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1983/32/section/1/7">s. 1(7)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1983/32/schedule/1/paragraph/5">Sch. 1 para. 5</ref>
(
<em>a</em>
)
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary C" eId="c6280461">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/Geo6/12-13-14/76/section/27/4">S. 27(4)</ref>
applied by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1970/34">Marriage (Registrar General's Licence) Act 1970 (c. 34)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1970/34/section/2/2">s. 2(2)</ref>
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary F" eId="c6280471">
<p>
Words inserted (E.W.) by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1983/32">Marriage Act 1983 (c. 32, SIF 49:1)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1983/32/section/1/7">s. 1(7)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1983/32/schedule/1/paragraph/5">Sch. 1 para. 5</ref>
(
<em>b</em>
)
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary F" eId="c6280481">
<p>
Sum in s. 27(6) substituted (1.4.1992) by virtue of
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1992/99">S.I. 1992/99</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1992/99/article/2">art. 2</ref>
,Sch. (which S.I. revokes
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1990/2515">S.I. 1990/2515</ref>
)
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary F" eId="c6280491">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/Geo6/12-13-14/76/section/27/7">S. 27(7)</ref>
inserted (E.W.) by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1983/32">Marriage Act 1983 (c. 32, SIF 49:1)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1983/32/section/1/7">s. 1(7)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1983/32/schedule/1/paragraph/5">Sch. 1 para. 5</ref>
(
<em>c</em>
)
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary F" eId="c6280501">
<p>
Sum in s. 27(7) substituted (1.4.1992) by virtue of
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1992/99">S.I. 1992/99</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1992/99/article/2">art. 2</ref>
,Sch. (which S.I. revokes
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1990/2515">S.I. 1990/2515</ref>
)
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary F" eId="c6281201">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/Geo6/12-13-14/76/section/27A">S. 27A</ref>
inserted (E.W.) by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1983/32">Marriage Act 1983 (c. 32, SIF 49:1)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1983/32/section/1/7">s. 1(7)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1983/32/schedule/1/paragraph/6">Sch. 1 para. 6</ref>
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary M" eId="c6281211">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1978/30">1978 c. 30 (115:1)</ref>
.
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary M" eId="c6281221">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1983/20">1983 c. 20 (85)</ref>
.
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary M" eId="c6281231">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1952/52">1952 c. 52 (39:1)</ref>
.
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary F" eId="c6281321">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/Geo6/12-13-14/76/section/27B">Ss. 27B</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/Geo6/12-13-14/76/section/27C">27C</ref>
inserted (E.W.) by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1986/16">Marriage (Prohibited Degrees of Relationship) Act 1986 (c. 16, SIF 49:1)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1986/16/section/1/4/6">s. 1(4)(6)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1986/16/schedule/1/paragraph/5">Sch. 1 para. 5</ref>
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary C" eId="c6281391">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/Geo6/12-13-14/76/section/28">S. 28</ref>
except para. 1(b) applied with modification by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1970/34">Marriage (Registrar General's Licence) Act 1970 (c. 34)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1970/34/section/2/3">s. 2(3)</ref>
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary C" eId="c6281401">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/Geo6/12-13-14/76/section/28/1">S. 28(1)</ref>
applied with modification by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1956/70">Marriage (Scotland) Act 1956 (c. 70)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1956/70/section/1/2/c">s. 1(2)(c)</ref>
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary F" eId="c6281411">
<p>Words “a child” substituted (E.W.) for words “an infant” by Family Law Reform Act 1987 (c. 42 SIF 49:7), ss. 33(1), 34(2)(5), Sch. 2 para. 9</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary C" eId="c6281501">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/Geo6/12-13-14/76/section/29">S. 29</ref>
applied with modification by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1970/34">Marriage (Registrar General's Licence) Act 1970 (c. 34)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1970/34/section/5">s. 5</ref>
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary F" eId="c6281511">
<p>
Words repealed by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1968/1242">S.I. 1968/1242</ref>
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary F" eId="c6281641">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/Geo6/12-13-14/76/section/31/6">S. 31(6)</ref>
repealed by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1968/1242">S.I. 1968/1242</ref>
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary C" eId="c6281841">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/Geo6/12-13-14/76/section/32/5">S. 32(5)</ref>
: By
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1968/1242">S.I. 1968/1242</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1968/1242/article/4/2">art. 4(2)</ref>
, it is provided that the fee payable for the issue of a certificate for marriage under s. 32(5) shall cease to be payable.
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary F" eId="c6281851">
<p>
Words in
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/Geo6/12-13-14/76/section/32/5">s. 32(5)</ref>
substituted by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1953/37">Registration Service Act 1953 (c. 37)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1953/37/schedule/1">Sch 1</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1953/37/paragraph/7">para. 7</ref>
.
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary F" eId="c6281861">
<p>
Sum in s. 32(5) substituted (1.4.1992) by virtue of
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1992/99">S.I. 1992/99</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1992/99/article/2">art. 2</ref>
,Sch. (which S.I. revokes
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1990/2515">S.I. 1990/2515</ref>
)
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary F" eId="c6281871">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/Geo6/12-13-14/76/section/32/6">S. 32(6)</ref>
repealed by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1975/10">Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1975 (c. 10)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1975/10/schedule/part/VI">Sch. Pt. VI</ref>
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary F" eId="c6282051">
<p>
Words “elsewhere than” substituted (E.W.) for “in a building which is not” by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1983/32">Marriage Act 1983 (c. 32, SIF 49:1)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1983/32/section/1/7">s. 1(7)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1983/32/schedule/1/paragraph/7">Sch. 1 para. 7</ref>
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary F" eId="c6282081">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/Geo6/12-13-14/76/section/35/1">S. 35(1)</ref>
(
<em>a</em>
) substituted by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1954/47">Marriage Act 1949 (Amendment) Act 1954 (c. 47)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1954/47/section/2">s. 2</ref>
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary F" eId="c6282091">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/Geo6/12-13-14/76/section/35/2">S. 35(2)</ref>
substituted by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1954/47">Marriage Act 1949 (Amendment) Act 1954 (c. 47)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1954/47/section/1">s. 1</ref>
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary F" eId="c6282321">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/Geo6/12-13-14/76/section/37/1">S. 37(1)</ref>
(
<em>a</em>
) substituted by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1977/15">Marriage (Scotland) Act 1977 (c. 15, SIF 49:2)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1977/15/schedule/2/paragraph/4">Sch. 2 para. 4</ref>
(
<em>a</em>
) (subject to a saving in s. 27(3) in relation to marriages before 1.1.1978)
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary F" eId="c6282331">
<p>
Words inserted (E.W.) by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1983/32">Marriage Act 1983 (c. 32, SIF 49:1)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1983/32/section/1/7">s. 1(7)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1983/32/schedule/1/paragraph/8">Sch. 1 para. 8</ref>
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary F" eId="c6282341">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/Geo6/12-13-14/76/section/37/1">S. 37(1)</ref>
(
<em>c</em>
) substituted by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1977/15">Marriage (Scotland) Act 1977 (c. 15, SIF 49:2)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1977/15/section/28/1">s. 28(1)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1977/15/schedule/2/paragraph/4">Sch. 2 para. 4</ref>
(
<em>b</em>
) (subject to a saving in s. 27(3) in relation to marriages before 1.1.1978)
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary F" eId="c6282351">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/Geo6/12-13-14/76/section/37/2">S. 37(2)</ref>
repealed by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1977/15">Marriage (Scotland) Act 1977 (c. 15, SIF 49:2)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1977/15/section/28/2">s. 28(2)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1977/15/schedule/3">Sch. 3</ref>
(subject to a saving in s. 27(3) in relation to marriages before 1.1.1978)
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary F" eId="c6282421">
<p>
Words “place where” substituted (E.W.) for words “church or other building in which” by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1983/32">Marriage Act 1983 (c. 32, SIF 49:1)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1983/32/section/1/7">s. 1(7)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1983/32/schedule/1/paragraph/9">Sch. 1 para. 9</ref>
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary M" eId="c6282441">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1844/81">1844 c. 81</ref>
.
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary M" eId="c6282451">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1846/72">1846 c. 72</ref>
.
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary M" eId="c6282461">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1863/27">1863 c. 27</ref>
.
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary F" eId="c6282561">
<p>
Words inserted (E.W.) by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1983/32">Marriage Act 1983 (c. 32, SIF 49:1)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1983/32/section/1/7">s. 1(7)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1983/32/schedule/1/paragraph/10">Sch. 1 para. 10</ref>
(
<em>a</em>
)
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary F" eId="c6282571">
<p>
Words substituted (E.W.) by virtue of
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1986/16">Marriage (Prohibited Degrees of Relationship) Act 1986 (c. 16, SIF 49:1)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1986/16/section/1/6">s. 1(6)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1986/16/schedule/1/paragraph/6">Sch. 1 para. 6</ref>
(
<em>a</em>
)
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary C" eId="c6282581">
<p>
Words “excluding section 27A” substituted (E.W.) for words “excluding sections 27A and 27B” as provided by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1986/16">Marriage (Prohibited Degrees of Relationship) Act 1986 (c. 16, SIF 49:1)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1986/16/section/1/6">s. 1(6)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1986/16/schedule/1/paragraph/6">Sch. 1 para. 6</ref>
(
<em>b</em>
)
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary F" eId="c6282591">
<p>
Words inserted (E.W.) by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1983/32">Marriage Act 1983 (c. 32, SIF 49:1)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1983/32/section/1/7">s. 1(7)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1983/32/schedule/1/paragraph/10">Sch. 1 para. 10</ref>
(
<em>b</em>
)
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary F" eId="c6282721">
<p>
Word repealed by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1990/33">Marriage (Registration of Buildings) Act 1990 (c. 33, SIF 49:1)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1990/33/section/1/1">s. 1(1)</ref>
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary F" eId="c6282731">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/Geo6/12-13-14/76/section/41/2">S. 41(2)</ref>
substituted by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1958/29">Marriage Acts Amendment Act 1958 (c. 29)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1958/29/section/1/1">s. 1(1)</ref>
(
<em>a</em>
)
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary F" eId="c6282741">
<p>
Sum in s. 41(6) substituted (1.4.1992) by virtue of
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1992/99">S.I. 1992/99</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1992/99/article/2">art. 2</ref>
,Sch. (which S.I. revokes
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1990/2515">S.I. 1990/2515</ref>
)
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary F" eId="c6282751">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/Geo6/12-13-14/76/section/41/7">S. 41(7)</ref>
substituted by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1990/33">Marriage (Registration of Buildings) Act 1990 (c. 33, SIF 49:1)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1990/33/section/1/1">s. 1(1)</ref>
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary C" eId="c6283041">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/Geo6/12-13-14/76/section/44/3">S. 44(3)</ref>
applied by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1970/34">Marriage (Registrar General's Licence) Act 1970 (c. 34)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1970/34/section/10/3">s. 10(3)</ref>
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary F" eId="c6283161">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/Geo6/12-13-14/76/section/45A">S. 45A</ref>
inserted (E.W.) by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1983/32">Marriage Act 1983 (c. 32, SIF 49:1)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1983/32/section/1/7">s. 1(7)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1983/32/schedule/1/paragraph/11">Sch. 1 para. 11</ref>
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary C" eId="c6283431">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/Geo6/12-13-14/76/section/48">S. 48</ref>
applied with modifications by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1970/34">Marriage (Registrar General's Licence) Act 1970 (c. 34)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1970/34/section/12">s. 12</ref>
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary C" eId="c6283461">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/Geo6/12-13-14/76/section/49">S. 49</ref>
applied (with modifications) by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1970/34">Marriage (Registrar General's Licence) Act 1970 (c. 34)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1970/34/section/13">s. 13</ref>
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary F" eId="c6283471">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/Geo6/12-13-14/76/section/49">S. 49(h)</ref>
and word “or” immediately preceding it inserted (E.W.) by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1983/32">Marriage Act 1983 (c. 32, SIF 49:1)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1983/32/section/1/7">s. 1(7)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1983/32/schedule/1/paragraph/13">Sch. 1 para. 13</ref>
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary F" eId="c6283651">
<p>
Words inserted (E.W.) by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1983/32">Marriage Act 1983 (c. 32, SIF 49:1)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1983/32/section/1/7">s. 1(7)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1983/32/schedule/1/paragraph/14">Sch. 1 para. 14</ref>
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary C" eId="c6283811">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/Geo6/12-13-14/76/section/51/1">S. 51(1)</ref>
: by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1992/99">S.I. 1992/99</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1992/99/article/2">art. 2</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1992/99/schedule">Sch.</ref>
(which S.I. revokes
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1990/2515">S.I. 1990/2515</ref>
), it is provided (1.4.1992) that the fee of registrar for attending marriage - (i) at a register office is £17.00 and (ii) at a registered building or at the place where a house-bound or detained person usually resides is £28.00 and that s. 51(1) shall have effect accordingly.
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary F" eId="c6283821">
<p>
“(1)” inserted (E.W.) by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1983/32">Marriage Act 1983 (c. 32, SIF 49:1)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1983/32/section/1/7">s. 1(7)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1983/32/schedule/1/paragraph/15">Sch. 1 para. 15</ref>
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary F" eId="c6283831">
<p>
Figures substituted by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1972/911">S.I. 1972/911</ref>
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary F" eId="c6283851">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/Geo6/12-13-14/76/section/51/2">S. 51(2)</ref>
added (E.W.) by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1983/32">Marriage Act 1983 (c. 32, SIF 49:1)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1983/32/section/1/7">s. 1(7)</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1983/32/schedule/1/paragraph/15">Sch. 1 para. 15</ref>
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary F" eId="c6283861">
<p>
Sum in s. 51(2) substituted (1.4.1992) by virtue of
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1992/99">S.I. 1992/99</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1992/99/article/2">art. 2</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1992/99/schedule">Sch.</ref>
(which S.I. was revoked by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1990/2515">S.I. 1990/2515</ref>
)
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary F" eId="c6283271">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/Geo6/12-13-14/76/section/46A">S. 46A</ref>
inserted (24.2.1995) by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1994/34">1994 c. 34</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1994/34/section/1/2">s. 1(2)</ref>
;
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1995/424">S.I. 1995/424</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1995/424/article/2/1/a">art. 2(1)(a)</ref>
</p>
</note>
<note class="commentary F" eId="c6283351">
<p>
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/Geo6/12-13-14/76/section/46B">S. 46B</ref>
inserted (in force for specified purposes on 24.2.1995 and 1.4.1995 respectively) by
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1994/34">1994 c. 34</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1994/34/section/1/2">s. 1(2)</ref>
;
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1995/424">S.I. 1995/424</ref>
,
<ref href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1995/424/article/2/1/a/2/b">art. 2(1)(a)(2)(b)</ref>
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<part eId="part-III" period="#period2">
<num>
<noteRef href="#c6280211" marker="C2" class="commentary C"/>
Part III
</num>
<heading> Marriage under Superintendent Registrar’s Certificate</heading>
<hcontainer name="crossheading" eId="part-III-crossheading-issue-of-certificates" period="#period6">
<heading> Issue of certificates</heading>
<section eId="section-26" period="#period3">
<num>26</num>
<heading> Marriages which may be solemnized on authority of superintendent registrar’s certificate.</heading>
<subsection eId="section-26-1">
<num>1</num>
<intro>
<p>Subject to the provisions of this Part of this Act, the following marriages may be solemnized on the authority of a certificate of a superintendent registrar—</p>
</intro>
<paragraph eId="section-26-1-a">
<num>a</num>
<content>
<p>a marriage in a registered building according to such form and ceremony as the persons to be married see fit to adopt;</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-26-1-b">
<num>b</num>
<content>
<p>a marriage in the office of a superintendent registrar;</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-26-1-c">
<num>c</num>
<content>
<p>a marriage according to the usages of the Society of Friends (commonly called Quakers);</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-26-1-d">
<num>d</num>
<content>
<p>a marriage between two persons professing the Jewish religion according to the usages of the Jews;</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-26-1-dd">
<num>
<ins class="d29p13456 first">
<noteRef href="#c6280231" marker="F9" class="commentary attribute F"/>
dd
</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d29p13456">the marriage (other than a marriage in pursuance of paragraph (</ins>
<em>
<ins class="d29p13456">c</ins>
</em>
<ins class="d29p13456">) or (</ins>
<em>
<ins class="d29p13456">d</ins>
</em>
<ins class="d29p13456 last">) above) of a person who is house-bound or is a detained person at the place where he or she usually resides;</ins>
</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-26-1-e">
<num>e</num>
<content>
<p>
a marriage according to the rites of the Church of England
<ins class="d29p13476 first last">
<noteRef href="#c6280241" marker="F10" class="commentary attribute F"/>
in any church or chapel in which banns of matrimony may be published.
</ins>
</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-26-2">
<num>
<noteRef href="#c6280251" marker="C3" class="commentary C"/>
2
</num>
<content>
<p>A marriage on the authority of a certificate of a superintendent registrar may be either by a licence issued by the superintendent registrar or without a licence:</p>
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<p>
Provided that a superintendent registrar shall not issue a licence
<ins class="d29p13490 first">
<noteRef href="#c6280261" marker="F11" class="commentary attribute F"/>
for a marriage intended to be solemnized at a person’s residence in pursuance of subsection (1)(
</ins>
<em>
<ins class="d29p13490">dd</ins>
</em>
<ins class="d29p13490 last">) of this section or</ins>
for a marriage in any church or chapel in which marriages may be solemnized according to the rites of the Church of England, or in any church or chapel belonging to the Church of England or licensed for the celebration of divine worship according to the rites and ceremonies of the Church of England.
</p>
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</content>
</subsection>
</section>
<section eId="section-27" period="#period13">
<num>27</num>
<heading> Notice of marriage.</heading>
<subsection eId="section-27-1" period="#period11">
<num>1</num>
<intro>
<p>Where a marriage is intended to be solemnized on the authority of a certificate of a superintendent registrar without licence, notice of marriage in the prescribed form shall be given—</p>
</intro>
<paragraph eId="section-27-1-a">
<num>a</num>
<content>
<p>if the persons to be married have resided in the same registration district for the period of seven days immediately before the giving of the notice, by either of those persons to the superintendent registrar of that district;</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-27-1-b">
<num>b</num>
<content>
<p>if the persons to be married have not resided in the same registration district for the said period of seven days as aforesaid, by either of those persons to the superintendent registrar of each registration district in which one of them has resided for that period.</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-27-2">
<num>2</num>
<content>
<p>Where a marriage is intended to be solemnized as aforesaid by licence, then, whether the persons to be married reside in the same or in different registration districts, notice of marriage in the prescribed form shall be given by either of those persons to the superintendent registrar of the registration district in which one of them has resided for the period of fifteen days immediately before the giving of the notice, and it shall not be required that notice of marriage shall be given to more than one superintendent registrar.</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-27-3" period="#period7">
<num>3</num>
<intro>
<p>
A notice of marriage shall state the name and surname, marital status, occupation and place of residence of each of the persons to be married and
<ins class="d29p13734 first last">
<noteRef href="#c6280451" marker="F12" class="commentary attribute F"/>
in the case of a marriage intended to be solemnized at a person’s residence in pursuance of section 26(1)(dd) of this Act, which residence is to be the place of solemnization of the marriage and, in any other case,
</ins>
the church or other building in which the marriage is to be solemnized and—
</p>
</intro>
<paragraph eId="section-27-3-a">
<num>a</num>
<content>
<p>in the case of a marriage intended to be solemnized without licence, shall state the period, not being less than seven days, during which each of the persons to be married has resided in his or her place of residence;</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-27-3-b">
<num>b</num>
<content>
<p>in the case of a marriage intended to be solemnized by licence, shall state the period, not being less than fifteen days, during which one of the persons to be married has resided in the district in which notice of marriage is given:</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<wrapUp>
<blockContainer class="BlockText">
<p>Provided that if either of the persons to be married has resided in the place stated in the notice for more than one month, the notice may state that he or she has resided there for more than one month.</p>
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</wrapUp>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-27-4" period="#period11">
<num>
<noteRef href="#c6280461" marker="C4" class="commentary C"/>
4
</num>
<content>
<p>
The superintendent registrar shall file all notices of marriage and keep them with the records of his office, and shall
<ins class="d29p13761 first last">
<noteRef href="#c6280471" marker="F13" class="commentary attribute F"/>
subject to section 27A of this Act
</ins>
also forthwith enter the particulars given in every such notice, together with the date of the notice and the name of the person by whom the notice was given, in a book (in this Act referred to as “
<term refersTo="#term-the-marriage-notice-book">the marriage notice book</term>
”) furnished to him for that purpose by the Registrar General, and the marriage notice book shall be open for inspection free of charge at all reasonable hours.
</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-27-5">
<num>5</num>
<content>
<p>If the persons to be married wish to be married in the presence of a registrar in a registered building for which an authorised person has been appointed, they shall, at the time when notice of marriage is given to the superintendent registrar under this section, give notice to him that they require a registrar to be present at the marriage.</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-27-6">
<num>6</num>
<content>
<p>
The superintendent registrar shall be entitled to a fee of
<ins class="d29p13780 first last">
<noteRef href="#c6280481" marker="F14" class="commentary attribute F"/>
£16.00
</ins>
for every entry made in the marriage notice book under this section.
</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-27-7">
<num>
<ins class="d29p13784 first">
<noteRef href="#c6280491" marker="F15" class="commentary attribute F"/>
7
</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d29p13784">The superintendent registrar shall be entitled to receive from any person intending to be married in pursuance of section 26(1)(</ins>
<em>
<ins class="d29p13784">dd</ins>
</em>
<ins class="d29p13784">) of this Act upon whom he attends at a place other than his office in order to be given notice of marriage under this section the sum of </ins>
<ins class="d29p13784">
<ins class="d29p13794 first last">
<noteRef href="#c6280501" marker="F16" class="commentary attribute F"/>
£30.00
</ins>
</ins>
<ins class="d29p13784 last">.</ins>
</p>
</content>
</subsection>
</section>
<section eId="section-27A" period="#period6">
<num>
<ins class="d29p14653">27A</ins>
</num>
<heading>
<ins class="d29p14653 first">
<noteRef href="#c6281201" marker="F17" class="commentary attribute F"/>
Additional information required in certain cases.
</ins>
</heading>
<subsection eId="section-27A-1">
<num>
<ins class="d29p14653">1</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d29p14653">This section applies in relation to any marriage intended to be solemnized at a person’s residence in pursuance of section 26(1)(</ins>
<em>
<ins class="d29p14653">dd</ins>
</em>
<ins class="d29p14653">) of this Act, and in the following provisions of this section that person is referred to as “the relevant person”.</ins>
</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-27A-2">
<num>
<ins class="d29p14653">2</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d29p14653">Where the relevant person is not a detained person, the notice of marriage required by section 27 of this Act shall be accompanied by a medical statement relating to that person made not more than fourteen days before the date on which the notice is given.</ins>
</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-27A-3">
<num>
<ins class="d29p14653">3</ins>
</num>
<intro>
<p>
<ins class="d29p14653">Where the relevant person is a detained person, the notice of marriage required by section 27 of this Act shall be accompanied by a statement made in the prescribed form by the responsible authority not more than twenty-one days before the date on which notice of the marriage is given under section 27—</ins>
</p>
</intro>
<paragraph eId="section-27A-3-a">
<num>
<ins class="d29p14653">a</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d29p14653">identifying the establishment where the person is detained; and</ins>
</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-27A-3-b">
<num>
<ins class="d29p14653">b</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d29p14653">stating that the responsible authority has no objection to that establishment being specified in the notice of marriage as the place where that marriage is to be solemnized.</ins>
</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-27A-4">
<num>
<ins class="d29p14653">4</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d29p14653">The person who gives notice of the marriage to the superintendent registrar in accordance with section 27 of this Act shall give the superintendent registrar the prescribed particulars, in the prescribed form, of the person by or before whom the marriage is intended to be solemnized.</ins>
</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-27A-5">
<num>
<ins class="d29p14653">5</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d29p14653">The superintendent registrar shall not enter the particulars given in the notice of the marriage in the marriage notice book until he has received the statement and the particulars required by subsections (2) or (3) and (4) of this section.</ins>
</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-27A-6">
<num>
<ins class="d29p14653">6</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d29p14653">The fact that a superintendent registrar has received a statement under subsection (2) or (as the case may be) (3) of this section shall be entered in the marriage notice book together with the particulars given in the notice of marriage and any such statement together with the form received under subsection (4) of this section shall be filed and kept with the records of the office of the superintendent register or, where notice of marriage is required to be given to two superintendent registrars, of either of them.</ins>
</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-27A-7">
<num>
<ins class="d29p14653">7</ins>
</num>
<intro>
<p>
<ins class="d29p14653">In this section—</ins>
</p>
<blockList class="unordered">
<item>
<p>
<ins class="d29p14653"></ins>
<term refersTo="#term-medical-statement">
<ins class="d29p14653">medical statement</ins>
</term>
<ins class="d29p14653">”, in relation to any person, means a statement made in the prescribed form by a registered medical practitioner that in his opinion at the time the statement is made—</ins>
</p>
</item>
</blockList>
</intro>
<paragraph eId="part-III-crossheading-issue-of-certificates_section-27A-7-an1">
<num>
<ins class="d29p14653">a</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d29p14653">by reason of illness or disability, he or she ought not to move or be moved from the place where he or she is at the time, and</ins>
</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="part-III-crossheading-issue-of-certificates_section-27A-7-bn1">
<num>
<ins class="d29p14653">b</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d29p14653">it is likely that it will be the case for at least the following three months that by reason of the illness or disability he or she ought not to move or be moved from that place; and</ins>
</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
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<content>
<blockList class="unordered">
<item>
<p>
<ins class="d29p14653"></ins>
<term refersTo="#term-registered-medical-practitioner">
<ins class="d29p14653">registered medical practitioner</ins>
</term>
<ins class="d29p14653">” has the meaning given by Schedule 1 to the Interpretation Act </ins>
<ins class="d29p14653">
<noteRef href="#c6281211" marker="M1" class="commentary M"/>
1978; and
</ins>
</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
<ins class="d29p14653"></ins>
<term refersTo="#term-responsible-authority">
<ins class="d29p14653">responsible authority</ins>
</term>
<ins class="d29p14653">” means—</ins>
</p>
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<paragraph eId="part-III-crossheading-issue-of-certificates_section-27A-7-an2">
<num>
<ins class="d29p14653">a</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d29p14653">if the person is detained in a hospital (within the meaning of Part II of the Mental Health Act </ins>
<ins class="d29p14653">
<noteRef href="#c6281221" marker="M2" class="commentary M"/>
1983), the managers of that hospital (within the meaning of section 145(1) of that Act); or
</ins>
</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="part-III-crossheading-issue-of-certificates_section-27A-7-bn2">
<num>
<ins class="d29p14653">b</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d29p14653">if the person is detained in a prison or other place to which the Prison Act </ins>
<ins class="d29p14653 last">
<noteRef href="#c6281231" marker="M3" class="commentary M"/>
1952 applies, the governor or other officer for the time being in charge of that prison or other place.
</ins>
</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
</subsection>
</section>
<section eId="section-27B" period="#period6">
<num>
<ins class="d29p14774">27B</ins>
</num>
<heading>
<ins class="d29p14774 first">
<noteRef href="#c6281321" marker="F18" class="commentary attribute F"/>
Provisions relating to section 1(3) marriages.
</ins>
</heading>
<subsection eId="section-27B-1">
<num>
<ins class="d29p14774">1</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d29p14774">This section applies in relation to any marriage mentioned in subsection (2) of section 1 of this Act which is intended to be solemnized on the authority of a certificate of a superintendent registrar.</ins>
</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-27B-2">
<num>
<ins class="d29p14774">2</ins>
</num>
<intro>
<p>
<ins class="d29p14774">The superintendent registrar shall not enter notice of the marriage in the marriage notice book unless—</ins>
</p>
</intro>
<paragraph eId="section-27B-2-a">
<num>
<ins class="d29p14774">a</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d29p14774">he is satisfied by the production of evidence that both the persons to be married have attained the age of twenty-one; and</ins>
</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-27B-2-b">
<num>
<ins class="d29p14774">b</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d29p14774">he has received a declaration made in the prescribed form by each of those persons, each declaration having been signed and attested in the prescribed manner, specifying their affinal relationship and declaring that the younger of those persons has not at any time before attaining the age of eighteen been a child of the family in relation to the other.</ins>
</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-27B-3">
<num>
<ins class="d29p14774">3</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d29p14774">The fact that a superintendent registrar has received a declaration under subsection (2) of this section shall be entered in the marriage notice book together with the particulars given in the notice of marriage and any such declaration shall be filed and kept with the records of the office of the superintendent registrar or, where notice of marriage is required to be given to two superintendent registrars, of each of them.</ins>
</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-27B-4">
<num>
<ins class="d29p14774">4</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d29p14774">Where the superintendent registrar receives from some person other than the persons to be married a written statement signed by that person which alleges that the declaration made under subsection (2) of this section is false in a material particular, the superintendent registrar shall not issue a certificate or licence unless a declaration is obtained from the High Court under subsection (5) of this section.</ins>
</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-27B-5">
<num>
<ins class="d29p14774">5</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d29p14774">Either of the persons to be married may, whether or not any statement has been received by the superintendent registrar under subsection (4) of this section, apply to the High Court for a declaration that, both those persons having attained the age of twenty-one and the younger of those persons not having at any time before attaining the age of eighteen been a child of the family in relation to the other, there is no impediment of affinity to the solemnization of the marriage; and where such a declaration is obtained the superintendent registrar may enter notice of the marriage in the marriage notice book and may issue a certificate, or certificate and licence, whether or not any declaration has been made under subsection (2) of this section.</ins>
</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-27B-6">
<num>
<ins class="d29p14774">6</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d29p14774 last">Section 29 of this Act shall not apply in relation to a marriage to which this section applies, except so far as a caveat against the issue of a certificate or licence for the marriage is entered under that section on a ground other than the relationship of the persons to be married.</ins>
</p>
</content>
</subsection>
</section>
<section eId="section-27C" period="#period7">
<num>
<ins class="d29p1582">27C</ins>
</num>
<heading>
<ins class="d29p1582 first">
<noteRef href="#c6281381" marker="F1" class="commentary attribute F"/>
Provisions relating to section 1(5) marriages.
</ins>
</heading>
<intro>
<p>
<ins class="d29p1582">In the case of a marriage mentioned in subsection (4) of section 1 of this Act which by virtue of subsection (5) of that section is valid only if at the time of the marriage both the parties to the marriage have attained the age of twenty-one and the death has taken place of two other persons related to those parties in the manner mentioned in the said subsection (5), the superintendent registrar shall not enter notice of the marriage in the marriage notice book unless satisfied by the production of evidence—</ins>
</p>
</intro>
<paragraph eId="section-27C-a">
<num>
<ins class="d29p1582">a</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d29p1582">that both the parties to the marriage have attained the age of twenty-one, and</ins>
</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-27C-b">
<num>
<ins class="d29p1582">b</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d29p1582 last">that both those other persons are dead.</ins>
</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
</section>
<section eId="section-28" period="#period6">
<num>28</num>
<heading>
Declaration to accompany notice of marriage.
<noteRef href="#c6281391" marker="C5" class="commentary C"/>
</heading>
<subsection eId="section-28-1">
<num>
<noteRef href="#c6281401" marker="C6" class="commentary C"/>
1
</num>
<intro>
<p>No certificate or licence for marriage shall be issued by a superintendent registrar unless the notice of marriage is accompanied by a solemn declaration in writing, in the body or at the foot of the notice, made and signed at the time of the giving of the notice by the person by whom the notice is given and attested as mentioned in subsection (2) of this section—</p>
</intro>
<paragraph eId="section-28-1-a">
<num>a</num>
<content>
<p>that he or she believes that there is no impediment of kindred or alliance or other lawful hindrance to the marriage;</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-28-1-b">
<num>b</num>
<content>
<p>in the case of a marriage intended to be solemnized without licence, that the persons to be married have for the period of seven days immediately before the giving of the notice had their usual places of residence within the registration district or registration districts in which notice is given, or, in the case of a marriage intended to be solemnized by licence, that one of the persons to be married has for the period of fifteen days immediately before the giving of the notice had his or her usual place of residence within the registration district in which notice is given;</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-28-1-c">
<num>c</num>
<content>
<p>
where one of the persons to be married is
<ins class="d29p14865 first last">
<noteRef href="#c6281411" marker="F19" class="commentary attribute F"/>
an infant
</ins>
<ins class="d29p14868 first last">
<noteRef href="#c6281411" marker="F19" class="commentary attribute F"/>
a child
</ins>
and is not a widower or widow, that the consent of the person or persons whose consent to the marriage is required under section three of this Act has been obtained, that the necessity of obtaining any such consent has been dispensed with under that section, that the court has consented to the marriage under that section, or that there is no person whose consent to the marriage is so required.
</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-28-2">
<num>2</num>
<content>
<p>Any such declaration as aforesaid shall be signed by the person giving the notice of marriage in the presence of the superintendent registrar to whom the notice is given or his deputy, or in the presence of a registrar of births and deaths or of marriages for the registration district in which the person giving the notice resides or his deputy, and that superintendent registrar, deputy superintendent registrar, registrar or deputy registrar, as the case may be, shall attest the declaration by adding thereto his name, description and place of residence.</p>
</content>
</subsection>
</section>
<section eId="section-28A" period="#period16">
<num>
<ins class="d29p1662 first">
<noteRef href="#c6281491" marker="F2" class="commentary attribute F"/>
28A
</ins>
</num>
<heading> Power to require evidence.</heading>
<subsection eId="section-28A-1">
<num>
<ins class="d29p1662">1</ins>
</num>
<intro>
<p>
<ins class="d29p1662">A superintendent registrar to whom a notice of marriage is given under section 27, or any other person attesting a declaration accompanying such a notice, may require the person giving the notice to provide him with specified evidence—</ins>
</p>
</intro>
<paragraph eId="section-28A-1-a">
<num>
<ins class="d29p1662">a</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d29p1662">relating to that person; or</ins>
</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-28A-1-b">
<num>
<ins class="d29p1662">b</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d29p1662">if the superintendent registrar considers that the circumstances are exceptional, relating to each of the persons to be married.</ins>
</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-28A-2" period="#period9">
<num>
<ins class="d29p1662">2</ins>
</num>
<intro>
<p>
<ins class="d29p1662">Such a requirement may be imposed at any time—</ins>
</p>
</intro>
<paragraph eId="section-28A-2-a">
<num>
<ins class="d29p1662">a</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d29p1662">on or after the giving of the notice of marriage; but</ins>
</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-28A-2-b">
<num>
<ins class="d29p1662">b</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d29p1662">before the superintendent registrar issues his certificate under section 31.</ins>
</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-28A-3">
<num>
<ins class="d29p1662">3</ins>
</num>
<intro>
<p>
<ins class="d29p1662"></ins>
<term refersTo="#term-specified-evidence">
<ins class="d29p1662">Specified evidence</ins>
</term>
<ins class="d29p1662">”, in relation to a person, means such evidence of that person’s—</ins>
</p>
</intro>
<paragraph eId="section-28A-3-a">
<num>
<ins class="d29p1662">a</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d29p1662">name and surname,</ins>
</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-28A-3-b">
<num>
<ins class="d29p1662">b</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d29p1662">age,</ins>
</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-28A-3-c">
<num>
<ins class="d29p1662">c</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d29p1662">marital status, and</ins>
</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-28A-3-d">
<num>
<ins class="d29p1662">d</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d29p1662">nationality,</ins>
</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<wrapUp>
<p>
<ins class="d29p1662 last">as may be specified in guidance issued by the Registrar General.</ins>
</p>
</wrapUp>
</subsection>
</section>
<section eId="section-29" period="#period6">
<num>29</num>
<heading>
Caveat against issue of certificate or licence.
<noteRef href="#c6281501" marker="C7" class="commentary C"/>
</heading>
<subsection eId="section-29-1">
<num>1</num>
<content>
<p>
Any person . . .
<noteRef href="#c6281511" marker="F20" class="commentary F"/>
may enter a caveat with the superintendent registrar against the issue of a certificate or licence for the marriage of any person named therein.
</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-29-2">
<num>2</num>
<content>
<p>If any caveat is entered as aforesaid, the caveat having been signed by or on behalf of the person by whom it was entered and stating his place of residence and the ground of objection on which the caveat is founded, no certificate or licence shall be issued until the superintendent registrar has examined into the matter of the caveat and is satisfied that it ought not to obstruct the issue of the certificate or licence, or until the caveat has been withdrawn by the person who entered it; and if the superintendent registrar is doubtful whether to issue a certificate or licence he may refer the matter of the caveat to the Registrar General.</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-29-3">
<num>3</num>
<content>
<p>Where a superintendent registrar refuses, by reason of any such caveat as aforesaid, to issue a certificate or licence, the person applying therefor may appeal to the Registrar General who shall either confirm the refusal or direct that a certificate or licence shall be issued.</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-29-4">
<num>4</num>
<content>
<p>Any person who enters a caveat against the issue of a certificate or licence on grounds which the Registrar General declares to be frivolous and to be such that they ought not to obstruct the issue of the certificate or licence, shall be liable for the costs of the proceedings before the Registrar General and for damages recoverable by the person against whose marriage the caveat was entered.</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-29-5">
<num>5</num>
<content>
<p>For the purpose of enabling any person to recover any such costs and damages as aforesaid, a copy of the declaration of the Registrar General purporting to be sealed with the seal of the General Register Office shall be evidence that the Registrar General has declared the caveat to have been entered on grounds which are frivolous and such that they ought not to obstruct the issue of the certificate or licence.</p>
</content>
</subsection>
</section>
<section eId="section-30" period="#period6">
<num>30</num>
<heading> Forbidding of issue of certificate.</heading>
<content>
<p>Any person whose consent to a marriage intended to be solemnized on the authority of a certificate of a superintendent registrar is required under section three of this Act may forbid the issue of such a certificate by writing, at any time before the issue of the certificate, the word “forbidden” opposite to the entry of the notice of marriage in the marriage notice book, and by subscribing thereto his name and place of residence and the capacity, in relation to either of the persons to be married, in which he forbids the issue of the certificate; and where the issue of a certificate has been so forbidden, the notice of marriage and all proceedings thereon shall be void:</p>
<blockContainer class="BlockText">
<p>
Provided that where, by virtue of paragraph (
<em>b</em>
) of the proviso to subsection (1) of the said section three, the court has consented to a marriage and the consent of the court has the same effect as if it had been given by a person whose consent has been refused, that person shall not be entitled to forbid the issue of a certificate for that marriage under this section, and the notice of marriage and the proceedings thereon shall not be void by virtue of this section.
</p>
</blockContainer>
</content>
</section>
<section eId="section-31" period="#period6">
<num>31</num>
<heading> Marriage under certificate without licence.</heading>
<subsection eId="section-31-1" period="#period10">
<num>1</num>
<content>
<p>Where a marriage is intended to be solemnized on the authority of a certificate of a superintendent registrar without licence, the superintendent registrar to whom notice of marriage has been given shall suspend or affix in some conspicuous place in his office, for twenty-one successive days next after the day on which the notice was entered in the marriage book, the notice of marriage, or an exact copy signed by him of the particulars thereof as entered in the marriage notice book.</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-31-2" period="#period10">
<num>2</num>
<intro>
<p>At the expiration of the said period of twenty-one days the superintendent registrar, on the request of the person by whom the notice of marriage was given, shall issue a certificate in the prescribed form unless—</p>
</intro>
<paragraph eId="section-31-2-a">
<num>a</num>
<content>
<p>any lawful impediment to the issue of the certificate has been shown to the satisfaction of the superintendent registrar; or</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-31-2-b">
<num>b</num>
<content>
<p>the issue of the certificate has been forbidden under the last foregoing section by any person authorised in that behalf.</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-31-3" period="#period10">
<num>3</num>
<content>
<p>Every such certificate shall set out the particulars contained in the notice of marriage and the day on which the notice was entered in the marriage notice book and shall contain a statement that the issue of the certificate has not been forbidden as aforesaid.</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-31-4" period="#period10">
<num>4</num>
<content>
<p>No marriage shall be solemnized on the production of a certificate of a superintendent registrar without licence until after the expiration of the said period of twenty-one days.</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-31-5" period="#period10">
<num>5</num>
<content>
<p>Where a marriage is to be solemnized in a registered building for which an authorised person has been appointed and no notice requiring a registrar to be present at the marriage has been given to the superintendent registrar under subsection (5) of section twenty-seven of this Act, the superintendent registrar shall, when issuing a certificate under this section, give to one of the persons to be married printed instructions in the prescribed form for the due solemnization of the marriage.</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-31-6">
<num>6</num>
<content>
<p>
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
<noteRef href="#c6281641" marker="F21" class="commentary F"/>
</p>
</content>
</subsection>
</section>
<section eId="section-31A" period="#period17">
<num>
<ins class="d29p2023 first">
<noteRef href="#c6281781" marker="F3" class="commentary attribute F"/>
31A
</ins>
</num>
<heading> Appeal on refusal under section 31(2)(a).</heading>
<subsection eId="section-31A-1" period="#period11">
<num>
<ins class="d29p2023">1</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d29p2023">If, relying on section 31(2)(a), a superintendent registrar refuses to issue a certificate, the person applying for it may appeal to the Registrar General.</ins>
</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-31A-2" period="#period11">
<num>
<ins class="d29p2023">2</ins>
</num>
<intro>
<p>
<ins class="d29p2023">On such an appeal, the Registrar General must—</ins>
</p>
</intro>
<paragraph eId="section-31A-2-a">
<num>
<ins class="d29p2023">a</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d29p2023">confirm the refusal; or</ins>
</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-31A-2-b" period="#period11">
<num>
<ins class="d29p2023">b</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d29p2023">direct that a certificate be issued.</ins>
</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-31A-3" period="#period11">
<num>
<ins class="d29p2023">3</ins>
</num>
<intro>
<p>
<ins class="d29p2023">If—</ins>
</p>
</intro>
<paragraph eId="section-31A-3-a" period="#period11">
<num>
<ins class="d29p2023">a</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d29p2023">relying on section 31(2)(a), a superintendent registrar refuses to issue a certificate as a result of a representation made to him, and</ins>
</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-31A-3-b" period="#period11">
<num>
<ins class="d29p2023">b</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d29p2023">on an appeal against the refusal, the Registrar General declares the representation to have been frivolous and to be such that it ought not to obstruct the issue of a certificate,</ins>
</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<wrapUp>
<p>
<ins class="d29p2023">the person making the representation is liable for the costs of the proceedings before the Registrar General and for damages recoverable by the applicant for the certificate.</ins>
</p>
</wrapUp>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-31A-4" period="#period11">
<num>
<ins class="d29p2023">4</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d29p2023 last">For the purpose of enabling a person to recover any such costs and damages, a copy of the declaration of the Registrar General purporting to be sealed with the seal of the General Register Office is evidence that the Registrar General has declared the representation to have been frivolous and to be such that it ought not to obstruct the issue of a certificate.</ins>
</p>
</content>
</subsection>
</section>
<section eId="section-32" period="#period13">
<num>32</num>
<heading> Marriage under certificate by licence.</heading>
<subsection eId="section-32-1">
<num>1</num>
<content>
<p>Where a marriage is intended to be solemnized on the authority of a certificate of a superintendent registrar by licence, the person by whom notice of marriage is given shall state in the notice that the marriage is intended to be solemnized by licence, and the notice shall not be suspended in the office of the superintendent registrar.</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-32-2">
<num>2</num>
<intro>
<p>Where a notice of marriage containing such a statement as aforesaid has been received by a superintendent registrar, then, after the expiration of one whole day next after the day on which the notice was entered in the marriage notice book, the superintendent registrar, on the request of the person by whom the notice was given, shall issue a certificate and a licence in the prescribed form unless—</p>
</intro>
<paragraph eId="section-32-2-a">
<num>a</num>
<content>
<p>any lawful impediment to the issue of the certificate has been shown to the satisfaction of the superintendent registrar; or</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-32-2-b">
<num>b</num>
<content>
<p>the issue of the certificate has been forbidden under section thirty of this Act by any person authorised in that behalf.</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-32-3">
<num>3</num>
<content>
<p>Every such certificate shall set out the particulars contained in the notice of marriage and the day on which the notice was entered in the marriage notice book, and shall contain a statement that the issue of the certificate has not been forbidden as aforesaid.</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-32-4">
<num>4</num>
<content>
<p>Where a marriage is to be solemnized in a registered building for which an authorised person has been appointed and no notice requiring a registrar to be present at the marriage has been given to the superintendent registrar under subsection (5) of section twenty-seven of this Act, the superintendent registrar shall, when issuing a certificate and licence under this section, give to one of the persons to be married printed instructions in the prescribed form for the due solemnization of the marriage.</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-32-5">
<num>
<ins class="d29p15112 first">
<noteRef href="#c6281841" marker="C8" class="commentary attribute C"/>
5
</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d29p15112"> A superintendent registrar shall be entitled to receive for every certificate issued by him under this section a fee of </ins>
<ins class="d29p15112">
<ins class="d29p15119 first last">
<noteRef href="#c6281851" marker="F22" class="commentary attribute F"/>
one shilling and sixpence
</ins>
</ins>
<ins class="d29p15112"> and for every licence so issued the sum of </ins>
<ins class="d29p15112">
<ins class="d29p15123 first last">
<noteRef href="#c6281861" marker="F23" class="commentary attribute F"/>
£43.00
</ins>
</ins>
<ins class="d29p15112 last"> over and above the amount paid for the stamps necessary on the issue of the licence.</ins>
</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-32-6">
<num>6</num>
<content>
<p>
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
<noteRef href="#c6281871" marker="F24" class="commentary F"/>
</p>
</content>
</subsection>
</section>
<section eId="section-33" period="#period5">
<num>33</num>
<heading> Period of validity of certificate and licence.</heading>
<subsection eId="section-33-1">
<num>1</num>
<content>
<p>A marriage may be solemnized on the authority of a certificate of a superintendent registrar, whether by licence or without licence, at any time within three months from the day on which the notice of marriage was entered in the marriage notice book.</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-33-2">
<num>2</num>
<content>
<p>If the marriage is not solemnized within the said period of three months, the notice of marriage and the certificate, and any licence which may have been granted thereon, shall be void, and no person shall solemnize the marriage on the authority thereof.</p>
</content>
</subsection>
</section>
<section eId="section-34" period="#period6">
<num>34</num>
<heading> Marriages normally to be solemnized in registration district in which one of parties resides.</heading>
<content>
<p>
Subject to the provisions of the next following section, a superintendent registrar shall not issue a certificate for the solemnization of a marriage
<ins class="d29p15440 first last">
<noteRef href="#c6282051" marker="F25" class="commentary attribute F"/>
in a building which is not
</ins>
<ins class="d29p15443 first last">
<noteRef href="#c6282051" marker="F25" class="commentary attribute F"/>
elsewhere than
</ins>
within a registration district in which one of the persons to be married has resided, in the case of a marriage without licence, for the period of seven days immediately before the giving of the notice of marriage or, in the case of a marriage by licence, for the period of fifteen days immediately before the giving of that notice.
</p>
</content>
</section>
<section eId="section-35" period="#period1">
<num>35</num>
<heading> Marriages in registration district in which neither party resides.</heading>
<subsection eId="section-35-1">
<num>1</num>
<intro>
<p>A superintendent registrar may issue a certificate, or if the marriage is to be by licence, a certificate and a licence, for the solemnization of a marriage in a registered building which is not within a registration district in which either of the persons to be married resides, where the person giving the notice of marriage declares by endorsement thereon in the prescribed form— </p>
</intro>
<paragraph eId="section-35-1-a">
<num>
<ins class="d29p15462 first">
<noteRef href="#c6282081" marker="F26" class="commentary attribute F"/>
a
</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d29p15462 last">that the persons to be married desire the marriage to be solemnized according to a specified form, rite or ceremony, being a form, rite or ceremony of a body or denomination of christians or other persons meeting for religious worship to which one of them professes to belong.</ins>
</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-35-1-b">
<num>b</num>
<content>
<p>that, to the best of his or her belief, there is not within the registration district in which one of them resides any registered building in which marriage is solemnized according to that form, rite or ceremony;</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-35-1-c">
<num>c</num>
<content>
<p>the registration district nearest to the residence of that person in which there is a registered building in which marriage may be so solemnized; and</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-35-1-d">
<num>d</num>
<content>
<p>the registered building in that district in which the marriage is intended to be solemnized;</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<wrapUp>
<p>and where any such certificate or certificate and licence is issued, the marriage may be solemnized in the registered building stated in the notice.</p>
</wrapUp>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-35-2">
<num>
<ins class="d29p15490 first">
<noteRef href="#c6282091" marker="F27" class="commentary attribute F"/>
2
</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d29p15490 last">A superintendent registrar may issue a certificate or, if the marriage is to be by licence, a certificate and a licence, for the solemnization of a marriage in a registered building which is the usual place of worship of the persons to be married, or of one of them, notwithstanding that the building is not within a registration district in which either of those persons resides.</ins>
</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-35-3">
<num>3</num>
<content>
<p>A superintendent registrar may issue a certificate for the solemnization of a marriage in any parish church or authorised chapel which is the usual place of worship of the persons to be married, or of one of them, notwithstanding that the church or chapel is not within a registration district in which either of those persons resides.</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-35-4">
<num>4</num>
<content>
<p>A superintendent registrar may issue a certificate or, if the marriage is to be by licence, a certificate and a licence, for the solemnization of a marriage according to the usages of the Society of Friends or in accordance with the usages of persons professing the Jewish religion, notwithstanding that the building or place in which the marriage is to be solemnized is not within a registration district in which either of the persons to be married resides.</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-35-5">
<num>5</num>
<content>
<p>Where a marriage is intended to be solemnized on the authority of a certificate of a superintendent registrar issued under subsection (2) or subsection (3) of this section, the notice of marriage given to the superintendent registrar and the certificate issued by the superintendent registrar shall state, in addition to the description of the registered building or, as the case may be, the parish church or authorised chapel, in which the marriage is to be solemnized, that it is the usual place of worship of the persons to be married or of one of them and, in the latter case, shall state the name of the person whose usual place of worship it is.</p>
</content>
</subsection>
</section>
<section eId="section-36" period="#period1">
<num>36</num>
<heading> Superintendent registrar to issue licences only for marriages to be solemnized in his registration district.</heading>
<intro>
<p>Subject to the provisions of the last foregoing section, a superintendent registrar shall not issue a licence for the solemnization of a marriage—</p>
</intro>
<paragraph eId="section-36-a">
<num>a</num>
<content>
<p>in a registered building which is not within his registration district;</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-36-b">
<num>b</num>
<content>
<p>in the office of any other superintendent registrar.</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
</section>
<section eId="section-37" period="#period6">
<num>37</num>
<heading> One party resident in Scotland.</heading>
<subsection eId="section-37-1">
<num>1</num>
<intro>
<p>Where a marriage is intended to be solemnized in England on the authority of a certificate of a superintendent registrar without licence between parties of whom one is residing in Scotland and the other is residing in England, the following provisions shall have effect— </p>
</intro>
<paragraph eId="section-37-1-a">
<num>
<ins class="d29p15730 first">
<noteRef href="#c6282321" marker="F28" class="commentary attribute F"/>
a
</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d29p15730 last">the party residing in Scotland may give notice of the intended marriage in accordance with section 7 of the Marriage (Scotland) Act 1977;</ins>
</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-37-1-b">
<num>b</num>
<content>
<p>
the party residing in England may, subject to and in accordance with the provisions of sections twenty-seven
<ins class="d29p15744 first last">
<noteRef href="#c6282331" marker="F29" class="commentary attribute F"/>
27A
</ins>
and twenty-eight of this Act, give notice of the intended marriage as if both parties were residing in different registration districts in England, and the provisions of this Part of this Act relating to notices of marriage and the issue of certificates for marriage shall apply accordingly;
</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-37-1-c">
<num>
<ins class="d29p15748 first">
<noteRef href="#c6282341" marker="F30" class="commentary attribute F"/>
c
</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d29p15748 last">a certificate issued under section 7(2) of the Marriage (Scotland) Act 1977 to a party shall, for the purpose of that party’s intended marriage, have the like force and effect in all respects as a certificate for marriage issued by a superintendent registrar under this Part of this Act;</ins>
</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-37-1-d">
<num>d</num>
<content>
<p>for the purposes of section thirty-three of this Act the notice given in Scotland shall be deemed to have been entered in a marriage notice book by a superintendent registrar in England on the day on which it was given.</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-37-2">
<num>2</num>
<content>
<p>
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
<noteRef href="#c6282351" marker="F31" class="commentary F"/>
</p>
</content>
</subsection>
</section>
<section eId="section-38" period="#period6">
<num>38</num>
<heading> One party resident in Northern Ireland.</heading>
<subsection eId="section-38-1">
<num>1</num>
<content>
<p>Where a marriage is intended to be solemnized in England on the authority of a certificate of a superintendent registrar without licence between parties of whom one is residing in Northern Ireland and the other is residing in England, the party residing in Northern Ireland may give notice of marriage in the form used for that purpose in Northern Ireland or to the like effect to the registrar of the district in Northern Ireland in which he or she has resided for not less than seven days immediately before the giving of the notice.</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-38-2">
<num>2</num>
<content>
<p>
Any such notice as aforesaid shall state the name and surname, marital status, occupation, age and place of residence of each of the persons to be married and the period, not being less than seven days, during which each of them has resided in that place and the
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church or other building in which
</ins>
<ins class="d29p15793 first last">
<noteRef href="#c6282421" marker="F32" class="commentary attribute F"/>
place where
</ins>
the marriage is to be solemnized:
</p>
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<p>Provided that if either of the persons to be married has resided in the place stated in the notice for more than one month, the notice may state that he or she has resided there for more than one month.</p>
</blockContainer>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-38-3">
<num>3</num>
<content>
<p>
Any such notice as aforesaid shall be dealt with, and a certificate for marriage issued by the registrar, in the manner prescribed by the
<noteRef href="#c6282441" marker="M4" class="commentary M"/>
Marriages (Ireland) Act, 1844, as amended by the
<noteRef href="#c6282451" marker="M5" class="commentary M"/>
Marriages (Ireland) Act, 1846, and the
<noteRef href="#c6282461" marker="M6" class="commentary M"/>
Marriage Law (Ireland) Amendment Act, 1863:
</p>
<blockContainer class="BlockText">
<p>Provided that the registrar shall not issue a certificate until the expiration of twenty-one days from the day on which the notice was entered in the marriage notice book required to be kept under the said Marriages (Ireland) Act, 1844.</p>
</blockContainer>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-38-4">
<num>4</num>
<content>
<p>The production to the person by whom the marriage is to be solemnized of a certificate issued under the last foregoing subsection shall be as valid for authorising that person to solemnize the marriage as the production of a certificate for marriage of a superintendent registrar of a registration district in England would be in the case of a person residing in that district.</p>
</content>
</subsection>
</section>
<section eId="section-39" period="#period6">
<num>39</num>
<heading> Issue of certificates on board His Majesty’s ships.</heading>
<subsection eId="section-39-1" period="#period11">
<num>1</num>
<content>
<p>Where a marriage is intended to be solemnized in England on the authority of a certificate of a superintendent registrar without licence between parties of whom one is residing in England and the other is an officer, seaman, or marine borne on the books of one of His Majesty’s ships at sea, the last-mentioned party may give notice of his intention to the captain or other officer commanding the ship, together with the name and address of the other party to the marriage, and such other information as may be necessary to enable the captain or other officer to fill up a certificate under this section, and shall at the same time make and sign such a declaration as is required by section twenty-eight of this Act, and the captain or other officer may attest the declaration and thereupon issue a certificate to the officer, seaman or marine giving the notice.</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-39-2" period="#period11">
<num>2</num>
<content>
<p>
A certificate issued under this section shall be in such form as may be prescribed by the Admiralty and shall have the like force and effect as a certificate issued by a superintendent registrar under this Part of this Act, and all provisions of this Act (including penal provisions
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but
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<ins class="d29p15846 first last">
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excluding sections 27A and 27B
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</ins>
) relating to notices and declarations for obtaining certificates from superintendent registrars and to such certificates shall apply in the case of certificates issued under this section, subject to such adaptations therein as may be made by His Majesty by Order in Council.
</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-39-3" period="#period11">
<num>
<noteRef href="#c6282581" marker="C9" class="commentary C"/>
3
</num>
<content>
<p>
Where a marriage is intended to be solemnized in England as aforesaid and a certificate has been issued to one of the parties under this section, the superintendent registrar of the registration district in which the other party is residing may accept notice of marriage given by that party, subject to and in accordance with the provisions of sections twenty-seven
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<noteRef href="#c6282591" marker="F35" class="commentary attribute F"/>
27A
</ins>
and twenty-eight of this Act, as if both parties were residing in different registration districts in England, and the provisions of this Part of this Act relating to notices of marriage and the issue of certificates for marriage shall apply accordingly.
</p>
</content>
</subsection>
</section>
<section eId="section-40" period="#period6">
<num>40</num>
<heading> Forms of certificates to be furnished by Registrar General.</heading>
<subsection eId="section-40-1">
<num>1</num>
<content>
<p>The Registrar General shall furnish to every superintendent registrar a sufficient number of forms of certificates for marriage.</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-40-2">
<num>2</num>
<content>
<p>In order to distinguish the certificates to be issued for marriages by licence from the certificates to be issued for marriages without licence, a watermark in the form of the word “licence”, in Roman letters, shall be laid and manufactured in the substance of the paper on which the certificates to be issued for marriage by licence are written or printed, and every certificate to be issued for marriage by licence shall be printed with red ink and every certificate to be issued for marriage without licence shall be printed with black ink, and such other distinctive marks between the two kinds of certificates as the Registrar General may from time to time think fit shall be used.</p>
</content>
</subsection>
</section>
</hcontainer>
<hcontainer name="crossheading" eId="part-III-crossheading-marriages-in-registered-buildings" period="#period7">
<heading> Marriages in registered buildings</heading>
<section eId="section-41" period="#period13">
<num>41</num>
<heading> Registration of buildings.</heading>
<subsection eId="section-41-1">
<num>1</num>
<content>
<p>
Any proprietor or trustee of a . . .
<noteRef href="#c6282721" marker="F36" class="commentary F"/>
building, which has been certified as required by law as a place of religious worship may apply to the superintendent registrar of the registration district in which the building is situated for the building to be registered for the solemnization of marriages therein.
</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-41-2">
<num>
<ins class="d29p15982 first">
<noteRef href="#c6282731" marker="F37" class="commentary attribute F"/>
2
</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d29p15982 last">Any person making such an application as aforesaid shall deliver to the superintendent registrar a certificate, signed in duplicate by at least twenty householders and dated not earlier than one month before the making of the application, stating that the building is being used by them as their usual place of public religious worship and that they desire that the building should be registered as aforesaid, and both certificates shall be countersigned by the proprietor or trustee by whom they are delivered.</ins>
</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-41-3">
<num>3</num>
<content>
<p>The superintendent registrar shall send both certificates delivered to him under the last foregoing subsection to the Registrar General who shall register the building in a book to be kept for that purpose in the General Register Office.</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-41-4">
<num>4</num>
<content>
<p>The Registrar General shall endorse on both certificates sent to him as aforesaid the date of the registration, and shall keep one certificate with the records of the General Register Office and shall return the other certificate to the superintendent registrar who shall keep it with the records of his office.</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-41-5">
<num>5</num>
<intro>
<p>On the return of the certificate under the last foregoing subsection, the superintendent registrar shall—</p>
</intro>
<paragraph eId="section-41-5-a">
<num>a</num>
<content>
<p>enter the date of the registration of the building in a book to be provided for that purpose by the Registrar General;</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-41-5-b">
<num>b</num>
<content>
<p>give a certificate of the registration signed by him, on durable materials, to the proprietor or trustee by whom the certificates delivered to him under subsection (2) of this section were countersigned; and</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-41-5-c">
<num>c</num>
<content>
<p>give public notice of the registration of the building by advertisement in some newspaper circulating in the county in which the building is situated and in the London Gazette.</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-41-6">
<num>6</num>
<content>
<p>
For every entry, certificate and notice made or given under the last foregoing subsection the superintendent registrar shall be entitled to receive, at the time of the delivery of the certificates under subsection (2) of this section, the sum of
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£88.00
</ins>
</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-41-7">
<num>
<ins class="d29p16035 first">
<noteRef href="#c6282751" marker="F39" class="commentary attribute F"/>
7
</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d29p16035 last">A building may be registered for the solemnization of marriages under this section whether it is a separate building or forms part of another building.</ins>
</p>
</content>
</subsection>
</section>
<section eId="section-42" period="#period7">
<num>42</num>
<heading> Cancellation of registration and substitution of another building.</heading>
<subsection eId="section-42-1">
<num>1</num>
<content>
<p>
Where, on an application made by or through the superintendent registrar of the registration district in which the building is situated, it is shown to the satisfaction of the Registrar General that a registered building is no longer used for the purpose of public religious worship by the congregation on whose behalf it was registered, he shall cause the registration to be cancelled . . .
<noteRef href="#c6282961" marker="F4" class="commentary F"/>
</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-42-2">
<num>2</num>
<content>
<p>
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
<noteRef href="#c6282971" marker="F5" class="commentary F"/>
</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-42-3">
<num>3</num>
<content>
<p>
Where the Registrar General cancels the registration of any building, . . .
<noteRef href="#c6282961" marker="F4" class="commentary F"/>
, under this section, he shall inform the superintendent registrar who shall enter that fact and the date thereof in the book provided for the registration of buildings, and shall certify and publish the cancellation . . .
<noteRef href="#c6282961" marker="F4" class="commentary F"/>
, in the manner provided by subsection (5) of the last foregoing section in the case of the . . .
<noteRef href="#c6282961" marker="F4" class="commentary F"/>
registration of a building.
</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-42-4">
<num>4</num>
<content>
<p>
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
<noteRef href="#c6282971" marker="F5" class="commentary F"/>
</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-42-5">
<num>5</num>
<content>
<p>
Where the registration of any building has been cancelled, . . .
<noteRef href="#c6282961" marker="F4" class="commentary F"/>
under this section, it shall not be lawful to solemnize any marriage in the disused building, unless the building has been registered again in accordance with the provisions of this Part of this Act.
</p>
</content>
</subsection>
</section>
<section eId="section-43" period="#period7">
<num>43</num>
<heading> Appointment of authorised persons.</heading>
<subsection eId="section-43-1">
<num>1</num>
<content>
<p>For the purpose of enabling marriages to be solemnized in a registered building without the presence of a registrar, the trustees or governing body of that building may authorise a person to be present at the solemnization of marriages in that building and, where a person is so authorised in respect of any registered building, the trustees or governing body of that building shall, within the prescribed time and in the prescribed manner, certify the name and address of the person so authorised to the Registrar General and to the superintendent registrar of the registration district in which the building is situated.</p>
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Provided that, in relation to a building which becomes registered after the thirty-first day of December, nineteen hundred and fifty-eight, the power conferred by this subsection to authorise a person to be present as aforesaid shall not be exercisable before the expiration of one year from the date of registration of the building or, where the congregation on whose behalf the building is registered previously used for the purpose of public religious worship another building of which the registration has been cancelled not earlier than one month before the date of registration aforesaid, one year from the date of registration of that other building.
</ins>
</p>
</blockContainer>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-43-2">
<num>2</num>
<content>
<p>Any person whose name and address have been certified as aforesaid is in this Act referred to as an “authorised person”.</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-43-3">
<num>3</num>
<content>
<p>Nothing in this section shall be taken to relate or have any reference to marriages solemnized according to the usages of the Society of Friends or of persons professing the Jewish religion.</p>
</content>
</subsection>
</section>
<section eId="section-44" period="#period4">
<num>44</num>
<heading> Solemnization of marriage in registered building.</heading>
<subsection eId="section-44-1">
<num>1</num>
<content>
<p>Subject to the provisions of this section, where a notice of marriage and certificate issued by a superintendent registrar state that a marriage between the persons named therein is intended to be solemnized in a registered building, the marriage may be solemnized in that building according to such form and ceremony as those persons may see fit to adopt:</p>
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<p>Provided that no marriage shall be solemnized in any registered building without the consent of the minister or of one of the trustees, owners, deacons or managers thereof, or in the case of a registered building of the Roman Catholic Church, without the consent of the officiating minister thereof.</p>
</blockContainer>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-44-2">
<num>2</num>
<intro>
<p>Subject to the provisions of this section, a marriage solemnized in a registered building shall be solemnized with open doors in the presence of two or more witnesses and in the presence of either—</p>
</intro>
<paragraph eId="section-44-2-a">
<num>a</num>
<content>
<p>a registrar of the registration district in which the registered building is situated, or</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-44-2-b">
<num>b</num>
<content>
<p>an authorised person whose name and address have been certified in accordance with the last foregoing section by the trustees or governing body of that registered building or of some other registered building in the same registration district.</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-44-3">
<num>
<noteRef href="#c6283041" marker="C10" class="commentary C"/>
3
</num>
<content>
<p>Where a marriage is solemnized in a registered building each of the persons contracting the marriage shall, in some part of the ceremony and in the presence of the witnesses and the registrar or authorised person, make the following declaration:—</p>
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“I do solemnly declare that I know not of any lawful impediment why I,
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, may not be joined in matrimony to
<em>
<abbr class="Acronym" title="Compact Disc">CD</abbr>
</em>
</p>
</blockContainer>
<p>and each of them shall say to the other:—</p>
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<p>
“I call upon these persons here present to witness that I,
<em>AB</em>
, do take thee,
<em>
<abbr class="Acronym" title="Compact Disc">CD</abbr>
</em>
, to be my lawful wedded wife [
<em>or</em>
husband]”:
</p>
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<item>
<p>Provided that if the marriage is solemnized in the presence of an authorised person without the presence of a registrar, the persons to be married, instead of saying each to the other the last-mentioned form of words, may say:—</p>
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<p>
“I,
<em>AB</em>
, do take thee,
<em>
<abbr class="Acronym" title="Compact Disc">CD</abbr>
</em>
, to be my wedded wife [
<em>or</em>
husband]”.
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</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-44-4">
<num>4</num>
<content>
<p>A marriage shall not be solemnized in a registered building without the presence of a registrar until duplicate marriage register books have been supplied by the Registrar General under Part IV of this Act to the authorised person or to the trustees or governing body of the building.</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-44-5">
<num>5</num>
<content>
<p>If the Registrar General is not satisfied with respect to any building registered or proposed to be registered for the solemnization of marriages therein that sufficient security exists for the due registration of marriages by an authorised person under Part IV of this Act and for the safe custody of marriage register books, he may in his discretion attach to the continuance of the registration, or to the registration, of the building a condition that no marriage may be solemnized therein without the presence of a registrar.</p>
</content>
</subsection>
</section>
</hcontainer>
<hcontainer name="crossheading" eId="part-III-crossheading-marriages-in-register-offices" period="#period7">
<heading> Marriages in register offices</heading>
<section eId="section-45" period="#period4">
<num>45</num>
<heading> Solemnization of marriage in register office.</heading>
<subsection eId="section-45-1">
<num>1</num>
<content>
<p>Where a marriage is intended to be solemnized on the authority of a certificate of a superintendent registrar, the persons to be married may state in the notice of marriage that they wish to be married in the office of the superintendent registrar or one of the superintendent registrars, as the case may be, to whom notice of marriage is given, and where any such notice has been given and the certificate or certificate and licence, as the case may be, has or have been issued accordingly, the marriage may be solemnized in the said office, with open doors, in the presence of the superintendent registrar and a registrar of the registration district of that superintendent registrar and in the presence of two witnesses, and the persons to be married shall make the declarations and use the form of words set out in subsection (3) of the last foregoing section in the case of marriages in registered buildings in the presence of a registrar.</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-45-2">
<num>2</num>
<content>
<p>No religious service shall be used at any marriage solemnized in the office of a superintendent registrar.</p>
</content>
</subsection>
</section>
<section eId="section-45A" period="#period4">
<num>
<ins class="d29p16631">45A</ins>
</num>
<heading>
<ins class="d29p16631 first">
<noteRef href="#c6283161" marker="F40" class="commentary attribute F"/>
Solemnization of certain marriages.
</ins>
</heading>
<subsection eId="section-45A-1">
<num>
<ins class="d29p16631">1</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d29p16631">This section applies to marriages solemnized, otherwise than according to the rites of the Church of England, in pursuance of section 26(1)(</ins>
<em>
<ins class="d29p16631">dd</ins>
</em>
<ins class="d29p16631">) of this Act at the place where a person usually resides.</ins>
</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-45A-2">
<num>
<ins class="d29p16631">2</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d29p16631">The marriage may be solemnized according to a relevant form, rite or ceremony in the presence of a registrar of the registration district in which the place where the marriage is solemnized is situated and of two witnesses and each of the persons contracting the marriage shall make the declaration and use the form of words set out in subsection (3) of section 44 of this Act in the case of marriages in registered buildings in the presence of a registrar.</ins>
</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-45A-3">
<num>
<ins class="d29p16631">3</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d29p16631">Where the marriage is not solemnized in pursuance of subsection (2) of this section it shall be solemnized in the presence of the superintendent registrar and a registrar of the registration district in which the place where the marriage is solemnized is situated and in the presence of two witnesses, and the persons to be married shall make the declarations and use the form of words set out in subsection (3) of section 44 of this Act in the case of marriages in registered buildings in the presence of a registrar.</ins>
</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-45A-4">
<num>
<ins class="d29p16631">4</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d29p16631">No religious service shall be used at any marriage solemnized in the presence of a superintendent registrar.</ins>
</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-45A-5">
<num>
<ins class="d29p16631">5</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d29p16631">In subsection (2) of this section a “</ins>
<term refersTo="#term-relevant-form-rite-or-ceremony">
<ins class="d29p16631">relevant form, rite or ceremony</ins>
</term>
<ins class="d29p16631 last">” means a form, rite or ceremony of a body of persons who meet for religious worship in any registered building being a form, rite or ceremony in accordance with which members of that body are married in any such registered building.</ins>
</p>
</content>
</subsection>
</section>
<section eId="section-46" period="#period7">
<num>46</num>
<heading> Register office marriage followed by religious ceremony.</heading>
<subsection eId="section-46-1">
<num>1</num>
<content>
<p>
If the parties to a marriage
<ins class="d29p2875 first last">
<noteRef href="#c6283201" marker="F7" class="commentary attribute F"/>
solemnized in the office of a superintendent registrar
</ins>
<ins class="d29p2878 first last">
<noteRef href="#c6283201" marker="F7" class="commentary attribute F"/>
solemnised in the presence of a superintendent registrar
</ins>
desire to add the religious ceremony ordained or used by the church or persuasion of which they are members, they may present themselves, after giving notice of their intention so to do, to the clergyman or minister of the church or persuasion of which they are members, and the clergyman or minister, upon the production of a certificate of their marriage before the superintendent registrar and upon the payment of the customary fees (if any), may, if he sees fit, read or celebrate in the church or chapel of which he is the regular minister the marriage service of the church or persuasion to which be belongs or nominate some other minister to do so.
</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-46-2">
<num>
<noteRef href="#c6283221" marker="C1" class="commentary C"/>
2
</num>
<content>
<p>
Nothing in the reading or celebration of a marriage service under this section shall supersede or invalidate any marriage previously
<ins class="d29p2889 first last">
<noteRef href="#c6283201" marker="F7" class="commentary attribute F"/>
solemnized in the office of a superintendent registrar
</ins>
<ins class="d29p2892 first last">
<noteRef href="#c6283201" marker="F7" class="commentary attribute F"/>
solemnised in the presence of a superintendent registrar
</ins>
, and the reading or celebration shall not be entered as a marriage in any marriage register book kept under Part IV of this Act.
</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-46-3">
<num>
<noteRef href="#c6283221" marker="C1" class="commentary C"/>
3
</num>
<content>
<p>No person who is not entitled to solemnize marriages according to the rites of the Church of England shall by virtue of this section be entitled to read or celebrate the marriage service in any church or chapel of the Church of England.</p>
</content>
</subsection>
</section>
</hcontainer>
<hcontainer name="crossheading" eId="part-III-crossheading-marriages-on-approved-premises" period="#period15">
<heading>
<ins class="d29p2905 first last">
<noteRef href="#c6283261" marker="F8" class="commentary attribute F"/>
Marriages on approved premises
</ins>
</heading>
<section eId="section-46A" period="#period14">
<num>
<noteRef href="#c6283271" marker="F47" class="commentary F"/>
46A
</num>
<heading> Approval of premises.</heading>
<subsection eId="section-46A-1" period="#period8">
<num>1</num>
<content>
<p>The Secretary of State may by regulations make provision for and in connection with the approval by local authorities of premises for the solemnization of marriages in pursuance of section 26(1)(bb) of this Act.</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-46A-2">
<num>2</num>
<intro>
<p>The matters dealt with by the regulations may include—</p>
</intro>
<paragraph eId="section-46A-2-a">
<num>a</num>
<content>
<p>the kinds of premises in respect of which approvals may be granted;</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-46A-2-b">
<num>b</num>
<content>
<p>the procedure to be followed in relation to applications for approval;</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-46A-2-c">
<num>c</num>
<content>
<p>the considerations to be taken into account by a local authority in determining whether to approve any premises;</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-46A-2-d">
<num>d</num>
<content>
<p>the duration and renewal of approvals;</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-46A-2-e">
<num>e</num>
<content>
<p>the conditions that must or may be imposed by a local authority on granting or renewing an approval;</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-46A-2-f">
<num>f</num>
<content>
<p>the determination and charging by local authorities of fees in respect of applications for the approval of premises and in respect of the renewal of approvals;</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-46A-2-g">
<num>g</num>
<content>
<p>the circumstances in which a local authority must or may revoke an approval;</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-46A-2-h">
<num>h</num>
<content>
<p>the review of any decision to refuse an approval or the renewal of an approval, to impose conditions on granting or renewing an approval or to revoke an approval;</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-46A-2-i">
<num>i</num>
<content>
<p>the notification to the Registrar General of all approvals granted, renewed or revoked;</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-46A-2-j">
<num>j</num>
<content>
<p>the keeping by local authorities of registers of approved premises;</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-46A-2-k">
<num>k</num>
<content>
<p>the issue by the Registrar General of guidance supplementing the provision made by the regulations.</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-46A-3">
<num>3</num>
<content>
<p>
In this section “
<term refersTo="#term-local-authority">local authority</term>
” means a county council, metropolitan district council or London borough council.
</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-46A-4">
<num>4</num>
<content>
<p>Regulations under this section may make different provision for different cases or circumstances.</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-46A-5">
<num>5</num>
<content>
<p>Any regulations under this section shall be made by statutory instrument, subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.</p>
</content>
</subsection>
</section>
<section eId="section-46B" period="#period14">
<num>
<noteRef href="#c6283351" marker="F48" class="commentary F"/>
46B
</num>
<heading> Solemnization of marriage on approved premises.</heading>
<subsection eId="section-46B-1">
<num>1</num>
<intro>
<p>Any marriage on approved premises in pursuance of section 26(1)(bb) of this Act shall be solemnized in the presence of—</p>
</intro>
<paragraph eId="section-46B-1-a">
<num>a</num>
<content>
<p>two witnesses, and</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-46B-1-b">
<num>b</num>
<content>
<p>the superintendent registrar and a registrar of the registration district in which the premises are situated.</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-46B-2">
<num>2</num>
<content>
<p>Without prejudice to the width of section 46A(2)(e) of this Act, the Secretary of State shall exercise his power to provide for the imposition of conditions as there mentioned so as to secure that members of the public are permitted to attend any marriage solemnized on approved premises in pursuance of section 26(1)(bb) of this Act.</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-46B-3">
<num>3</num>
<content>
<p>Each of the persons contracting such a marriage shall make the declaration and use the form of words set out in section 44(3) of this Act in the case of marriages in registered buildings in the presence of a registrar.</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-46B-4">
<num>4</num>
<content>
<p>No religious service shall be used at a marriage on approved premises in pursuance of section 26(1)(bb) of this Act.</p>
</content>
</subsection>
</section>
</hcontainer>
<hcontainer name="crossheading" eId="part-III-crossheading-marriages-according-to-usages-of-society-of-friends" period="#period7">
<heading> Marriages according to usages of Society of Friends</heading>
<section eId="section-47" period="#period6">
<num>47</num>
<heading> Marriages according to usages of Society of Friends.</heading>
<subsection eId="section-47-1">
<num>1</num>
<content>
<p>No person who is not a member of the Society of Friends shall be married according to the usages of that Society unless he or she is authorised to be so married under or in pursuance of a general rule of the said Society in England.</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-47-2">
<num>2</num>
<intro>
<p>A marriage solemnized according to the said usages shall not be valid unless either—</p>
</intro>
<paragraph eId="section-47-2-a">
<num>a</num>
<content>
<p>the person giving notice of marriage declares, either verbally or, if so required, in writing, that each of the parties to the marriage is either a member of the Society of Friends or is in profession with or of the persuasion of that Society; or</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-47-2-b">
<num>b</num>
<content>
<p>there is produced to the superintendent registrar, at the time when notice of marriage is given, a certificate purporting to be signed by a registering officer of the Society of Friends in England to the effect that any party to the marriage who is not a member of the Society of Friends or in profession with or of the persuasion of that Society, is authorised to be married according to the said usages under or in pursuance of a general rule of the said Society in England.</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-47-3">
<num>3</num>
<content>
<p>Any such certificate as aforesaid shall be for all purposes conclusive evidence that any person to whom it relates is authorised to be married according to the usages of the said Society, and the entry of the marriage in a marriage register book under Part IV of this Act, or a certified copy thereof made under the said Part IV, shall be conclusive evidence of the production of such a certificate.</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-47-4">
<num>4</num>
<content>
<p>A copy of any general rule of the Society of Friends purporting to be signed by the recording clerk for the time being of the said Society in London shall be admitted as evidence of the general rule in all proceedings touching the validity of any marriage solemnized according to the usages of the said Society.</p>
</content>
</subsection>
</section>
</hcontainer>
<hcontainer name="crossheading" eId="part-III-crossheading-miscellaneous-provisions" period="#period7">
<heading> Miscellaneous Provisions</heading>
<section eId="section-48" period="#period6">
<num>48</num>
<heading>
Proof of certain matters not necessary to validity of marriages.
<noteRef href="#c6283431" marker="C11" class="commentary C"/>
</heading>
<subsection eId="section-48-1">
<num>1</num>
<intro>
<p>Where any marriage has been solemnized under the provisions of this Part of this Act, it shall not be necessary in support of the marriage to give any proof—</p>
</intro>
<paragraph eId="section-48-1-a">
<num>a</num>
<content>
<p>that before the marriage either of the parties thereto resided, or resided for any period, in the registration district stated in the notice of marriage to be that of his or her place of residence;</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-48-1-b">
<num>b</num>
<content>
<p>that any person whose consent to the marriage was required by section three of this Act had given his consent;</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-48-1-c">
<num>c</num>
<content>
<p>that the registered building in which the marriage was solemnized had been certified as required by law as a place of religious worship;</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-48-1-d">
<num>d</num>
<content>
<p>that that building was the usual place of worship of either of the parties to the marriage; or</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-48-1-e">
<num>e</num>
<content>
<p>that the facts stated in a declaration made under subsection (1) of section thirty-five of this Act were correct;</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<wrapUp>
<p>nor shall any evidence be given to prove the contrary in any proceedings touching the validity of the marriage.</p>
</wrapUp>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-48-2">
<num>2</num>
<content>
<p>A marriage solemnized in accordance with the provisions of this Part of this Act in a registered building which has not been certified as required by law as a place of religious worship shall be as valid as if the building had been so certified.</p>
</content>
</subsection>
</section>
<section eId="section-49" period="#period12">
<num>49</num>
<heading>
Void marriages.
<noteRef href="#c6283461" marker="C12" class="commentary C"/>
</heading>
<intro>
<p>If any persons knowingly and wilfully intermarry under the provisions of this Part of this Act—</p>
</intro>
<paragraph eId="section-49-a">
<num>a</num>
<content>
<p>without having given due notice of marriage to the superintendent registrar;</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-49-b">
<num>b</num>
<content>
<p>without a certificate for marriage having been duly issued by the superintendent registrar to whom notice of marriage was given;</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-49-c">
<num>c</num>
<content>
<p>without a licence having been so issued, in a case in which a licence is necessary;</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-49-d">
<num>d</num>
<content>
<p>on the authority of a certificate which is void by virtue of subsection (2) of section thirty-three of this Act;</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-49-e">
<num>e</num>
<content>
<p>in any place other than the church, chapel, registered building, office or other place specified in the notice of marriage and certificate of the superintendent registrar;</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-49-f">
<num>f</num>
<content>
<p>in the case of a marrige in a registered building (not being a marriage in the presence of an authorised person), in the absence of a registrar of the registration district in which the registered building is situated; or</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-49-g">
<num>g</num>
<content>
<p>
in the case of a marriage in the office of a superintendent registrar, in the absence of the superintendent registrar or of a registrar of the registration district of that superinentdent registrar;
<ins class="d29p16830 first">
<noteRef href="#c6283471" marker="F41" class="commentary attribute F"/>
or
</ins>
</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-49-h">
<num>
<ins class="d29p16830">h</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d29p16830 last">in the case of a marriage to which section 45A of this Act applies, in the absence of any superintendent registrar or registrar whose presence at that marriage is required by that section;</ins>
</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<wrapUp>
<p>the marriage shall be void.</p>
</wrapUp>
</section>
<section eId="section-50" period="#period3">
<num>50</num>
<heading> Person to whom certificate to be delivered.</heading>
<subsection eId="section-50-1">
<num>1</num>
<intro>
<p>Where a marriage is intended to be solemnized on the authority of a certificate of a superintendent registrar, the certificate or, if notice of marriage has been given to more than one superintendent registrar, the certificates shall be delivered to the following person, that is to say:—</p>
</intro>
<paragraph eId="section-50-1-a">
<num>a</num>
<content>
<p>
if the marrige is to be solemnized in a registered building
<ins class="d29p16945 first last">
<noteRef href="#c6283651" marker="F42" class="commentary attribute F"/>
or at a person’s residence
</ins>
in the presence of a registrar, that registrar;
</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-50-1-b">
<num>b</num>
<content>
<p>if the marriage is to be solemnized in a registered building without the presence of a registrar, the authorised person in whose presence the marriage is to be solemnized;</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-50-1-c">
<num>c</num>
<content>
<p>if the marriage is to be solemnized in the office of a superintendent registrar, the registrar in whose presence the marriage is to be solemnized;</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-50-1-d">
<num>d</num>
<content>
<p>if the marriage is to be solemnized according to the usages of the Society of Friends, the registering officer of that Society for the place where the marriage is to be solemnized;</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-50-1-e">
<num>e</num>
<content>
<p>if the marriage is to be solemnized according to the usages of persons professing the Jewish religion, the officer of a synagogue by whom the marriage is required to be registered under Part IV of this Act;</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
<paragraph eId="section-50-1-f">
<num>f</num>
<content>
<p>if the marriage is to be solemnized according to the rites of the Church of England, the officiating clergyman.</p>
</content>
</paragraph>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-50-2">
<num>2</num>
<content>
<p>In the application of the last foregoing subsection to a marriage solemnized otherwise than according to the rites of the Church of England, the reference therein to a certificate shall, if the marriage is by licence, be construed as a reference to the certificate and licence.</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-50-3">
<num>3</num>
<content>
<p>Where a marriage is solemnized in a registered building without the presence of a registrar, the certificate or certificate and licence, as the case may be, shall be kept in the prescribed custody and shall be produced with the marriage register books kept by the authorised person under Part IV of this Act as and when required by the Registrar General.</p>
</content>
</subsection>
</section>
<section eId="section-51" period="#period13">
<num>
<noteRef href="#c6283811" marker="C13" class="commentary C"/>
51
</num>
<heading> Fees of registrars for attending marriages.</heading>
<subsection eId="section-51-1">
<num>
<ins class="d29p17123 first last">
<noteRef href="#c6283821" marker="F43" class="commentary attribute F"/>
1
</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
A registrar shall be entitled to receive from persons married under this Part of this Act in his presence the sum of
<ins class="d29p17129 first last">
<noteRef href="#c6283831" marker="F44" class="commentary attribute F"/>
£1.50
</ins>
if the marriage is by licence and, in any other case, the sum of
<ins class="d29p17133 first last">
<noteRef href="#c6283831" marker="F44" class="commentary attribute F"/>
£1.50
</ins>
.
</p>
</content>
</subsection>
<subsection eId="section-51-2">
<num>
<ins class="d29p17137 first">
<noteRef href="#c6283851" marker="F45" class="commentary attribute F"/>
2
</ins>
</num>
<content>
<p>
<ins class="d29p17137">A superintendent registrar shall be entitled to receive from persons married in his presence in pursuance of section 26(1)(</ins>
<em>
<ins class="d29p17137">dd</ins>
</em>
<ins class="d29p17137">) of this Act the sum of </ins>
<ins class="d29p17137">
<ins class="d29p17147 first last">
<noteRef href="#c6283861" marker="F46" class="commentary attribute F"/>
£30.00
</ins>
</ins>
<ins class="d29p17137 last">.</ins>
</p>
</content>
</subsection>
</section>
<section eId="section-52" period="#period4">
<num>52</num>
<heading> Provision for marriages in Welsh language.</heading>
<content>
<p>The Registrar General shall furnish to every registrar in Wales and in every place in which the Welsh language is commonly used a true and exact translation into the Welsh language of the declaration and form of words required to be used under section forty-four of this Act, and the said translation may be used in any place in which the Welsh language is commonly used in the same manner as is prescribed by the said section forty-four for the use of the declaration and form of words in the English language.</p>
</content>
</section>
</hcontainer>
</part>
</portionBody>
</portion>
</akomaNtoso>