The Registration of Marriages Regulations 2021 No. 411

SCHEDULE 1 Consequential and related amendments

PART 1 Marriage Act 1949

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

33.—(1) Section 47 of the 1949 Act (marriages according to usages of Society of Friends)(1) is amended as follows.

(2) In subsection (2)(b), for “a registering” substitute “an”.

(3) In subsection (3), for “the entry of the marriage in a marriage register book under Part IV of this Act, or a certified copy thereof made under the said Part IV,” substitute “a certified copy of the entry of the marriage in the marriage register made under Part 4 of this Act”.

(1)

Section 47 was amended by paragraph 25 of Schedule 14 to the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999.