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The Registration of Marriages Regulations 2021

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Amendment of Part 3 of the 1949 Act (marriage under superintendent registrar’s certificate)

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15.—(1) Section 27B of the 1949 Act (provisions relating to section 1(3) marriages)(1) is amended as follows.

(2) In subsection (1), for “certificates of a superintendent registrar” substitute “a marriage schedule”.

(3) In subsection (2), for “enter notice of the marriage in the marriage notice book, or in an approved electronic form by virtue of section 27(4A)” substitute “record notice of the marriage in the marriage register”.

(4) In subsection (3), for “marriage notice book” substitute “marriage register”.

(5) Omit subsection (3A).

(6) In subsection (4), for “the superintendent registrar shall not issue a certificate” substitute “a marriage schedule may not be issued”.

(7) In subsection (5), for the words from “marriage notice book” to “may issue a certificate” substitute “marriage register and a marriage schedule may be issued”.

(8) In subsection (6), for “certificate” substitute “marriage schedule”.

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Section 27B was inserted by paragraph 5 of Schedule 1 to the Marriage (Prohibited Degrees of Relationship) Act 1986 amended by paragraph 10 of Schedule 14 and Schedule 16 to the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999, paragraph 14 of Schedule 11 to the Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c. 22) and S.I. 2009/2821.

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