1995 No. 744
REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS, DEATHS, MARRIAGES, ETC. ENGLAND AND WALES

The Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1995

Made
Coming into force
The Registrar General in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 55(1) and 74(b) of the Marriage Act 19491 and sections 6(2) and 20(d) of the Registration Service Act 19532 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, with the approval of the Secretary of State for Health3, hereby makes the following Regulations—

Citation and commencement1.

These Regulations may be cited as the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1995 and shall come into force on 1st April 1995.

Amendment of regulation 12 of the Registration of Marriages Regulations 19862.

In regulation 12 of the Registration of Marriages Regulations 19864 (entry of attestation) after paragraph (b) there shall be inserted—

“(bb)

if the marriage has been solemnized on approved premises in pursuance of section 26(1)(bb) of the Act5, the description of the approved premises and the word “certificate” or, as the case may be, “licence”;”.

Amendment of regulation 4 of the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages Regulations 19683.

In regulation 4 of the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages Regulations 19686 (qualifications for appointment), paragraphs (b), (c) and (d) and the proviso to that regulation shall be omitted.

Given under my hand on 13th March 1995.

P. J. Wormald
Registrar General

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health

Tom Sackville
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,
Department of Health
(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations make a minor amendment to the Registration of Marriages Regulations 1986 consequent upon the coming into force of those provisions of the Marriage Act 1994 which enable civil ceremonies of marriage to take place on premises approved by the local authority (regulation 2). The amendment provides for the relevant particulars to be entered by the registrar in the form of attestation of marriage.

In addition, the Regulations amend the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages Regulations 1968 to remove the age restrictions on appointment to a registration office (regulation 3).