C1C2Part III Marriage under F8marriage schedule
Pt. III applied (S.) as to issue of certificates for marriage by Marriage (Scotland) Act 1956 (c. 70), s. 1(3)
Pt. 3 applied (13.3.2014) by Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 (c. 30), ss. 1(2)(a), 21(3); S.I. 2014/93, art. 3(a)
Marriages in registered buildings
C3C241C2 Registration of buildings F5: marriage of a man and a woman.
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Any proprietor or trustee of a F1. . . building, which has been certified as required by law as a place of religious worship may apply to the superintendent registrar of the registration district in which the building is situated for the building to be registered for the solemnization of marriages therein.
F61A
A reference in this section to the solemnization of marriage is a reference to the solemnization of marriage of a man and a woman.
F22
Any person making such an application as aforesaid shall deliver to the superintendent registrar a certificate, signed in duplicate by at least twenty householders and dated not earlier than one month before the making of the application, stating that the building is being used by them as their usual place of public religious worship and that they desire that the building should be registered as aforesaid, and both certificates shall be countersigned by the proprietor or trustee by whom they are delivered.
3
The superintendent registrar shall send both certificates delivered to him under the last foregoing subsection to the Registrar General who shall register the building in a book to be kept for that purpose in the General Register Office.
F43A
The duty imposed by subsection (3) to register the building in a book may be discharged by registering the building in an approved electronic form.
4
The Registrar General shall endorse on both certificates sent to him as aforesaid the date of the registration, and shall keep one certificate with the records of the General Register Office and shall return the other certificate to the superintendent registrar who shall keep it with the records of his office.
5
On the return of the certificate under the last foregoing subsection, the superintendent registrar shall—
a
enter the date of the registration of the building in a book to be provided for that purpose by the Registrar General;
b
give a certificate of the registration signed by him, on durable materials, to the proprietor or trustee by whom the certificates delivered to him under subsection (2) of this section were countersigned; and
c
give public notice of the registration of the building by advertisement in some newspaper circulating in the county in which the building is situated and in the London Gazette.
F76
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F37
A building may be registered for the solemnization of marriages under this section whether it is a separate building or forms part of another building.
Words in Pt. 3 heading substituted (4.5.2021) by The Registration of Marriages Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/411), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 9 (with Sch. 2)