(1)The Registrar General must maintain a register for the recording of information relating to marriages and the registration of marriages, which is to be known as the “marriage register”.
(2)The marriage register must be accessible in electronic form.
(3)Where a marriage is registered under section 53D(10)(a), the entry must be available to—
(a)the Registrar General, and
(b)the superintendent registrar in whose registration district the marriage was solemnized,
immediately after the entry has been made.
(4)Subject to subsection (5), information entered in the marriage register under any provision of this Act other than sections 29(1) or 53D(10)(a) must not be made available to the Registrar General.
(5)Subsection (4) does not apply to information entered in the marriage register under section 27(4) where the superintendent registrar who entered the information has agreed that it may be made available.]
Textual Amendments
F1Ss. 53A-53E inserted (27.3.2021 for specified purposes, 4.5.2021 in so far as not already in force) by virtue of The Registration of Marriages Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/411), regs. 1(2)(4)(b)(5)(a), 7 (with Sch. 2)