The Registration of Marriages etc. (Electronic Communications and Electronic Storage) Order 2009

Modification of section 58 of the 1949 Act

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10.  In section 58 of the 1949 Act (quarterly returns to be made by superintendent registrar to Registrar General) after subsection (2) insert—

(2A) Where a superintendent registrar has received a certified copy of an entry in an approved electronic form by virtue of section 57(2A) and (2B), the duty imposed by subsection (1) to send the copy to the Registrar General is to be discharged by sending the copy to the Registrar General in an approved electronic form (but in any other case, that duty may not be discharged by sending the copy in an electronic form).

(2B) The duty imposed by subsection (2) may be discharged by storing the copies in an approved electronic form.