63 Searches in register books.E+W
(1)Every incumbent, F1... officer of the Society of Friends, secretary of a synagogue and registrar by whom a marriage register book is kept [F2may] allow searches to be made in any marriage register book in his keepingF3... F4...
(2)The last foregoing subsection shall apply in the case of a registered building for which an authorised person has been appointed with the substitution for the reference to the incumbent of a reference to the person [F5responsible for keeping] a marriage register book in accordance with regulations made under section seventy-four of this Act.
Textual Amendments
F1Word in s. 63(1) omitted (4.5.2021) by virtue of The Registration of Marriages Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/411), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 36(2)(a) (with Sch. 2)
F2Word in s. 63(1) substituted (4.5.2021) by The Registration of Marriages Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/411), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 36(2)(b) (with Sch. 2)
F3Words in s. 63(1) omitted (4.5.2021) by virtue of The Registration of Marriages Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/411), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 36(2)(c) (with Sch. 2)
F4Words in s. 63(1) omitted (12.7.2016) by virtue of Immigration Act 2016 (c. 19), s. 94(1), Sch. 15 para. 15; S.I. 2016/603, reg. 3(w)
F5Words in s. 63(2) substituted (4.5.2021) by The Registration of Marriages Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/411), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 36(3) (with Sch. 2)
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1S. 63 modified by Parochial Registers and Records Measure 1978 (No. 2), ss. 20(3), 27(3)