The Registration of Marriages (Amendment) Regulations 1997

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Registration of Marriages (Amendment) Regulations 1997 and shall come into force on 1st October 1997.

Amendment of the Registration of Marriages Regulations 1986

2.  In the Registration of Marriages Regulations 1986(1) in Schedule 1 (prescribed forms) for forms 1 (notice of marriage without licence), 2 (notice of marriage with licence), 9 (certificate for marriage), 10 (certificate and licence for marriage) and 12 (instructions for the solemnization of a marriage in a registered building without the presence of a registrar) there shall be substituted respectively the forms 1, 2, 9, 10 and 12 in Schedule 1 to these Regulations.

Amendment of the Registration of Marriages (Welsh Language) Regulations 1986

3.  In the Registration of Marriages (Welsh Language) Regulations 1986(2) in Schedule 1 (prescribed forms) for forms 1 (notice of marriage without licence), 2 (notice of marriage with licence), 6 (certificate for marriage), 7 (certificate and licence for marriage) and 8 (instructions for the solemnization of a marriage in a registered building without the presence of a registrar) there shall be substituted respectively the forms 1, 2, 6, 7 and 8 in Schedule 2 to these Regulations.

Transitional provision

4.  Regulations 2 and 3 of these Regulations shall not apply in relation to a marriage in respect of which the notice of marriage was entered in the marriage notice book before the day on which these Regulations come into force.

Give under my hand on

Dr D. Holt

Registrar General

8th September 1997

I approve,

Signed by authority of the Chancellor of the Exchequer

Helen Liddell

Economic Secretary to the Treasury

9th September 1997