[F144ABuilding subject to Sharing of Church Buildings Act 1969: registrationU.K.
(1)This section applies to a registration application relating to a building that is—
(a)subject to a sharing agreement, or
(b)used as mentioned in section 6(4) of the 1969 Act.
(2)The registration application must be made in accordance with section 43A (as read with section 26A(3)).
(3)But those provisions have effect subject to the following provisions of this section.
(4)Each of the sharing churches is a relevant religious organisation for the purposes of section 26A(3).
(5)A consent given under section 26A(3) (a “consent to marriages of same sex couples”) by the relevant governing authority of any of the sharing churches is therefore sufficient for the registration application to be made in compliance with section 26A(3) (and references to the consent of the relevant governing authority in section 43A are to be read accordingly).
(6)But the registration application may not be made unless the relevant governing authorities of each of the sharing churches (other than those which have given consents to marriages of same sex couples) have given a separate written consent to the use of the shared building for the solemnization of marriages of same sex couples (a “consent to use”).
(7)The registration application must also be accompanied by—
(a)a certificate, given by the applicant and dated not more than one month before the making of the application, that the relevant governing authorities mentioned in subsection (6) have given written consents to use, and
(b)copies of those consents.
(8)The superintendent registrar must also send to the Registrar General—
(a)the certificate, and
(b)the copies of the consents,
which accompany the application in accordance with subsection (7).
(9)The Registrar General must not register the shared building unless and until subsection (8) and the requirements of section 43A have been complied with.
(10)The Secretary of State may by statutory instrument make regulations containing such provision supplementing this section as the Secretary of State thinks appropriate.]
Textual Amendments
F1Ss. 44A-44D inserted (31.10.2013 for specified purposes, 13.3.2014 in so far as not already in force) by Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 (c. 30), s. 21(3), Sch. 1 para. 3; S.I. 2013/2789, art. 2(a); S.I. 2014/93, art. 3(g)
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1Pt. 3 applied (13.3.2014) by Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 (c. 30), ss. 1(2)(a), 21(3); S.I. 2014/93, art. 3(a)