Amendment of Part 4 of the 1949 Act (registration of marriages)
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36.—(1) Section 63 of the 1949 Act (searches in register books)(1) is amended as follows.
(2) In subsection (1)—
(a)omit “registering”;
(b)for “shall at all reasonable hours” substitute “may”;
(c)omit “, and shall give a copy certified under his hand of any entry in such a book”.
(3) In subsection (2), for “having the custody of” substitute “responsible for keeping”.
(1)
Section 63(1) was amended by paragraph 15 of Schedule 15 to the Immigration Act 2016.