PART 1Introduction and days appointed

Provisions relating to marriage and civil partnership coming into force on 1st and 2nd March 20152

1

The day appointed for the coming into force of the following provisions of the Act is 1st March 2015—

a

section 48 (decision whether to investigate)3;

b

section 49 (exempt persons), for all remaining purposes;

c

section 50 (conduct of investigation), for all remaining purposes4;

d

section 51 (investigations: supplementary), for all remaining purposes;

e

section 52 (referral of proposed marriages and civil partnerships in England and Wales), for all remaining purposes;

f

Schedule 4 (referral of proposed marriages and civil partnerships in England and Wales), for all remaining purposes;

g

section 53 (extension of scheme to Scotland and Northern Ireland), for all remaining purposes;

h

subsections (1) and (8) of section 54 (provision supplementing section 53), for all remaining purposes;

i

section 55 (meaning of “sham marriage” and “sham civil partnership”);

j

section 58 (requirement as to giving of notice of marriage or civil partnership);

k

section 73(6) (transitional and consequential provision) so far as necessary for the purpose of sub-paragraph (l);

l

paragraph 66 of Schedule 9 (transitional provision relating to marriage and civil partnership).

2

The day appointed for the coming into force of section 57 of the Act (solemnization of marriage according to rites of Church of England) is 2nd March 2015.