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The Registration of Marriages Regulations 2021

Amendment of Part 3 of the 1949 Act (marriage under superintendent registrar’s certificate)

This section has no associated Explanatory Memorandum

25.—(1) Section 35 of the 1949 Act (marriages in registration district in which neither party resides)(1) is amended as follows.

(2) In subsections (1), (2), (2A), (2B), (3), (3A) and (4), for “certificate” (in each place it appears) substitute “marriage schedule”.

(3) In subsection (1), omit “in respect of each of the persons to be married”.

(4) In subsection (2A), for “the office of another superintendent registrar” substitute “the superintendent registrar’s office”.

(5) In subsections (5) and (6)—

(a)for “certificates of a superintendent registrar” substitute “a marriage schedule”;

(b)omit “given to the superintendent registrar”;

(c)for “each certificate issued by the superintendent registrar” substitute “the marriage schedule”.

(1)

Section 35 was amended by section 1 and section 2 of the Marriage Act 1949 (Amendment) Act 1954 (c. 47), section 2(1) of the Marriage Act 1994, paragraph 17 of Schedule 14 and Schedule 16 to the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 and paragraph 12(1), paragraph 12(2) and paragraph 12(3) of Schedule 4 to the Immigration Act 2014.