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This is a draft item of legislation. This draft has since been made as a UK Statutory Instrument: The Marriage of Same Sex Couples (Registration of Shared Buildings) Regulations 2014 No. 544
2. In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—
“the 1949 Act” means the Marriage Act 1949;
“the 1969 Act” means the Sharing of Church Buildings Act 1969(1);
“consent to marriages of same sex couples” means consent given, under section 26A(3) of the
1949 Act, by a relevant governing authority of a sharing church;
“registration” means registration of a building under section 43A of the 1949 Act;
“relevant superintendent registrar” means the superintendent registrar of the registration district in which the building which is, or is to be, registered is situated;
“sharing church” means one of the sharing churches.
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