49Marriage procedure: miscellaneous amendments
In section 4 of the 1977 Act (notice of intended marriages)—
(a)for subsection (2) there is substituted—
“(2)The district registrar shall maintain a list of the intended marriages in respect of which he has received a marriage notice or an approved certificate (the “district list”).
(2A)Subject to subsection (2B) below, the district list shall be displayed in a conspicuous place at the registration office.
(2B)If the registration office comprises more than one set of premises, it shall be sufficient for the purpose of subsection (2A) above if the district registrar displays the list in a conspicuous place at the principal premises only.
(2C)The district registrar shall, as soon as practicable after he has received a marriage notice or an approved certificate in relation to an intended marriage—
(a)make an entry in the district list containing the relevant particulars of the marriage; and
(b)provide (in such form and by such means as the Registrar General thinks fit) the relevant particulars of the marriage to the Registrar General.
(2D)The Registrar General shall maintain a list of proposed marriages in Scotland (the “Scottish list”).
(2E)The Registrar General shall make the Scottish list available for public inspection (at such locations, by such means and in such forms as the Registrar General thinks fit).
(2F)The Registrar General shall, as soon as practicable after the relevant particulars of a marriage are provided to him under subsection (2C)(b) above, make an entry in the Scottish list containing those particulars.
(2G)An entry in a district list or the Scottish list shall remain in that list until the proposed date of the marriage to which it relates has elapsed.”; and
(b)after subsection (3) there is inserted—
“(4)For the purpose of this section, the relevant particulars of a marriage are such particulars, extracted from the marriage notice book, as may be prescribed.”.