Part IV Registration of Marriages

65AF1Searches and records of information: additional provision

1

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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3

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.