The Transfer of Functions (Registration and Statistics) Order 1996 No. 273

SCHEDULE 2 Consequential Amendments

The Marriage Act 1949 (c. 76)

9.  The Marriage Act 1949 shall be amended as follows.

10.  In sections 46A(1) and 46B(2)(1) (approved premises), for the words “Secretary of State” there shall be substituted the words “Chancellor of the Exchequer”.

11.  In sections 58 (quarterly returns) and 74 (regulations), for the words which are to be construed as referring to the Secretary of State there shall be substituted the words “the Chancellor of the Exchequer”.

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Section 46B was inserted by the Marriage Act 1994 (c. 34); s. 1(2).