1. These Regulations may be cited as the Registration of Marriages Regulations 2015 and come into force on 2nd March 2015.
2.—(1) In these Regulations—
“the Act” means the Marriage Act 1949;
“1970 Act” means the Marriage (Registrar General’s Licence) Act 1970;
“entry” (unless the context otherwise requires), means a record of the particulars relating to a marriage completed in the appropriate places in form 15;
“occupation” includes rank or profession.
(2) In these Regulations, any reference to a numbered form is to the form bearing that number in Schedule 1, and any reference to a numbered column on a form, is to the column bearing that number on that form.
3.—(1) Forms 1(w) to 6(w), 9(w) to 12(w) and 15(w) in Schedule 1 must be completed in English and must also be completed in Welsh if—
(a)in the case of—
(i)forms 1(w) to 6(w), 9(w), 11(w) and 12(w), the party giving notice of the marriage, and
(ii)form 10(w), the person making the declaration,
so elects, and provides the required particulars in both languages, and the person by whom the notice, or as the case may be the declaration, is attested can understand and write Welsh;
(b)in the case of form 15(w), the parties to the marriage so elect and provide the required particulars in both languages, and the person who registers the marriage can understand and write Welsh.
(2) Where a form of words set out in column 1 of Schedule 2 to these Regulations is used in completing a form in English, the corresponding form of words set out in column 2 must be used where the form is also completed in Welsh.