The Registration of Marriages Regulations 2021

Amendment of Part 3 of the 1949 Act (marriage under superintendent registrar’s certificate)

26.  In section 37(1) of the 1949 Act (one party resident in Scotland)(1)—

(a) for “certificates of a superintendent registrar” substitute “a marriage schedule”;

(b) in paragraph (b), for “certificates for marriage shall apply accordingly” substitute “a marriage schedule apply accordingly”;

(c) for paragraph (c) substitute—

“(c) if a certificate is issued under section 7(2) of the Marriage (Scotland) Act 1977 that certificate must be provided for the purposes of section 31(3)(b) of this Act to the superintendent registrar in the registration district in which the marriage is to be solemnized before the marriage schedule is issued;

(ca) the superintendent registrar must, as soon as reasonably practicable, record in the marriage register the fact that the superintendent registrar has been provided with the certificate issued under section 7(2) of the Marriage (Scotland) Act 1977;”;

(d) in paragraph (d), for “entered in a marriage notice book” substitute “recorded in the marriage register”.

(1)

Section 37 was amended by paragraph 4 of Schedule 2 and Schedule 3 to the Marriage (Scotland) Act 1977, paragraph 19 of Schedule 14 to the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 and paragraph 13 of Schedule 4 and Schedule 16 to the Immigration Act 2014.