The Local Government Changes for England Regulations 1994

Registration service

22.—(1) In this regulation, “the 1949 Act” means the Marriage Act 1949(1).

(2) Where notice of marriage is given before the reorganisation date to any superintendent registrar whose district will be altered or abolished by the order and the marriage is not solemnised before that date, the following shall apply:

(a) where the district is altered, the provisions of the 1949 Act with regard to the issue of a certificate or a certificate and licence shall apply as if the alteration had not taken place;

(b) where the district is abolished, section 15(1) of the Registration Service Act 1953(2) shall apply with the modification, for the purposes of this regulation only, as if there were inserted after the words “to such person as the Registrar General may designate” the words “and in an case where a district has been abolished the Registrar General shall authorise the superintendent registrar for any other district to act for the purposes of the Local Government Changes for England Regulations 1994 as superintendent registrar for the district which has been abolished”, and a superintendent registrar so appointed is referred to in this regulation as an “authorised superintendent registrar”, and

(i) the notice of marriage shall have effect as if it had been given to the authorised superintendent registrar, and the authorised superintendent registrar shall cause any notice or exact copy of particulars entered in the marriage notice book and required to be displayed under section 31(1) of the 1949 Act to be affixed in some conspicuous place in his or her office from the reorganisation date for any unexpired portion of the period mentioned in that subsection;

(ii) the authorised superintendent registrar, and any other superintendent registrar so empowered by the 1949 Act may issue a certificate or a certificate and licence for the solemnisation of the marriage notwithstanding that the building in which the marriage is solemnised is not within that superintendent registrar’s district or within the district where one of the persons to be married has resided; and

(iii) the authorised superintendent registrar may arrange for the solemnisation of the marriage in his or her office where the persons to be married had stated in the notice that they wished to be married in the office of the superintendent registrar to whom notice was given.

(3) For the purposes of any notice of marriage to be given on or after the reorganisation date, the alteration or establishment of any registration district by the order shall be deemed to take effect 32 days before the reorganisation date.

(4) The superintendent registrar of any registration district which will be abolished on the relevant date shall for one month before that date display the name and address of the successor registrar in a conspicuous position in his or her office, and shall give that information to every person giving notice of marriage.

(5) Where any birth (including a still-birth) or death—

(a) occurs before the reorganisation date in a registration sub-district which is altered or abolished by the order on that date; and

(b) the birth or death is not registered before that date—

the birth or death shall be registered by the registrar of births and deaths for the sub-district in which the place of birth or death is located on that date.

(1)

12 & 13 Geo. 6, Ch. 76.

(2)

1953 c. 37.