The Registration of Marriages Regulations 2021

Amendment of Part 2 of the 1949 Act (marriage according to the rites of the Church of England)

3.—(1) Section 7 of the 1949 Act (time and manner of publication of banns)(1) is amended as follows.

(2) In subsection (3), omit “and marked in the manner directed by section fifty-four of this Act for the register book of marriages”.

(3) After subsection (3) insert—

“(3A) A register book of banns must be marked as follows—

(a) every place of entry is to be numbered consecutively from the beginning to the end of the book on each side of every page, beginning with the number one;

(b) every entry is to be divided from the following entry by a printed line;

(c) every entry must contain—

(i) the names of the parties to the marriage,

(ii) the parish or other place where each party to the marriage resides, and

(iii) the dates on which the banns of matrimony in respect of the marriage were published.”.

(4) In subsection (4), for “the last foregoing subsection” substitute “subsection (3)”.

(1)

Section 7 was amended by section 2(2) of the Church of England Marriage (Amendment) Measure 2012 (No. 1).