2014 No. 305
Marriage
The Same Sex Marriage (Prescribed Bodies) (Scotland) Regulations 2014
Made
Laid before the Scottish Parliament
Coming into force
The Scottish Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 8(1B)(a)(i) of the Marriage (Scotland) Act 19771 and all other powers enabling them to do so.
In accordance with section 8(1C)(a)2 of the Marriage (Scotland) Act 1977 the bodies prescribed in regulation 2 have requested the Scottish Ministers to prescribe them.
Citation and commencement1.
These Regulations may be cited as the Same Sex Marriage (Prescribed Bodies) (Scotland) Regulations 2014 and come into force on 16th December 2014.
Prescribed bodies2.
The bodies prescribed for the purposes of section 8(1B)(a)(i) of the Marriage (Scotland) Act 1977 are listed in the Schedule to these Regulations.
ALEX NEIL
A member of the Scottish Government
St Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
SCHEDULE
The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)
The Scottish Unitarian Association
EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations prescribe the religious or belief bodies whose ministers, clergymen, pastors, priests or other celebrants are entitled to solemnise same sex marriage without the need to be registered as approved celebrants or authorised to solemnise marriages between persons of the same sex.