SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 1Amendment of Marriage Act 1949

20In section 75 (criminal offences)—

(a)in paragraph (c) of subsection (1) after the words " special licence " there shall be inserted the words " or a marriage in pursuance of section 26(1)(dd) of this Act ";

(b)in subsection (2)(a)(ii) for the words " or office specified " there shall be substituted the words " office or person's residence specified as the place where the marriage was to be solemnized ";

(c)after subsection (2)(b) there shall be inserted the following paragraph—

(bb)solemnizes a marriage in pursuance of section 26(1)(dd) of this Act, otherwise than according to the rites of the Church of England, in the absence of a registrar of the registration district in which the place where the marriage is solemnized is situated ;;

(d)in subsection (3)(d) after the words " in his office " there shall be inserted the words " or, in the case of a marriage in pursuance of section 26(1)(dd) of this Act, in any other place ".