Provision of the information contained in a marriage record in portable document format
4.—(1) The Registrar General may, on request, search the Registrar General’s certified copies of entries in the marriage register and copies of entries in the conversion register(1) and provide a record of the information contained in a marriage entry in those copies, in portable document format.
(2) A request for the Registrar General to undertake a search and provide information under paragraph (1) must—
(a)be made via the public website known as www.gov.uk, and
(b)indicate whether the record is required by way of standard service or expedited service.
(3) The Registrar General may charge a fee for each record provided under paragraph (1) in accordance with regulation 6 and the fee charged is payable to the Registrar General.
Regulation 22 of the Marriage of Same Sex Couples (Conversion of Civil Partnership) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/3181) requires the Registrar General to provide a system on which to keep the records of civil partnerships which have been converted into marriages and permits those records to be kept together with other records of the Registrar General. The indexes to records in the conversion register and the marriage register are kept together.