Part IV Registration of Marriages
65AF1Searches and records of information: additional provision
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The Secretary of State may make regulations for the purpose of enabling the Registrar General—
a
to carry out, on request, a search to find out whether F3the entries in the marriage register to which the Registrar General has access under section 53A(3) or the Registrar General's certified copies contain a particular entry;
b
to provide, on request, a record of information contained in F4such an entry, otherwise than in the form of a certified copy.
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The regulations may make provision—
a
as to how a request for a search or a record may be made;
b
as to the forms in which a record may be provided.
4
The provision that may be made in the regulations includes provision for a record to be provided in a form that does not include all of the information contained in an entry.
5
Before making regulations under this section, the Secretary of State must consult the Registrar General.
6
Regulations under this section are to be made by statutory instrument.
7
A statutory instrument containing regulations under this section is subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.
8
This section does not affect the entitlement of any person to a certified copy of an entry F5in the marriage register under section 53D(10)(a) or in the Registrar General's certified copies.
9
In this section, “the Registrar General's certified copies” means the certified copies of entries in marriage register books F6... kept in the General Register Office.