The Reporting of Suspicious Marriages and Registration of Marriages (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2000

Statutory Instruments

2000 No. 3164

REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS, DEATHS, MARRIAGES, ETC. ENGLAND AND WALES

The Reporting of Suspicious Marriages and Registration of Marriages (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2000

Made

29th November 2000

Coming into force

1st January 2001

The Registrar General, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 27(1), 27B(2)(b), 31(2), (5) and (5D), and 74 of the Marriage Act 1949(1) (as extended by section 26(3) of the Welsh Language Act 1993(2)), section 20(a) of the Registration Service Act 1953(3) and section 24(3) of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999(4) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, with the approval of the Chancellor of the Exchequer(5), hereby makes the following Regulations:—

(1)

1949 c. 76. Section 27 was amended by the Marriage Act 1983 (c. 32). Section 27B was inserted by the Marriage (Prohibited Degrees of Relationship) Act 1986 (c. 16), Schedule 1, paragraph 5. Section 31(5D) was inserted by section 160(6) of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 (c. 33).

(2)

1993 c. 38.

(3)

1953 c. 37.

(4)

1999 c. 33.

(5)

The approval of the Chancellor of the Exchequer is required by section 74 of the Marriage Act 1949, as amended by Article 5(1) of, and paragraph 11 of Schedule 2 to, the Transfer of Functions (Registration and Statistics) Order 1996 (S.I. 1996/273) and section 24(4) of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 (c. 33).