SCHEDULES
F1SCHEDULE 3AModifications if proposed marriage referred under section 28H
Marriage to be investigated: extension of waiting period to 70 days
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The modifications in this paragraph have effect if the Secretary of State gives the superintendent registrar notice under section 48(7) of the 2014 Act of a decision to investigate whether the referred marriage is a sham.
2
Section 31(2): the reference to the said period of 28 days has effect as a reference to the relevant 70 day period.
3
Section 31(4A)(a): the reference to the period of 28 days has effect as a reference to the relevant 70 day period.
4
Section 31(5A) and (5C): the reference to the 28 day period has effect as a reference to the relevant 70 day period.
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Section 31(5B) does not apply.
6
Section 75(3)(a): the reference to 28 days has effect as a reference to 70 days (and the reference in section 31(5C) to 28 days has effect accordingly).
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In this paragraph “relevant 70 day period” means the period—
a
beginning the day after notice of the proposed marriage is entered in the marriage book in accordance with Part 3 of the Marriage Act 1949, or is entered in an approved electronic form by virtue of section 27(4A) of that Act, and
b
ending at the end of the period of 70 days beginning with that day.
Sch. 3A inserted (1.3.2015) by Immigration Act 2014 (c. 22), s. 75(3), Sch. 4 para. 9 (with Sch. 9 para. 66); S.I. 2015/371, art. 2(1)(f)