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

32.—(1) Section 46 of the 1949 Act (register office marriage followed by religious ceremony)(1) is amended as follows.

(2) In subsection (1D), in the definition of “relevant governing authority”, for “section 53(c)” substitute “section 53D”.

(3) In subsection (2), for “any marriage register book kept under Part IV of this Act” substitute “the marriage register”.

(1)

Section 46 was amended by paragraph 13 of Schedule 7 to the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 and S.I. 2014/3168.