The Registration of Marriages Regulations 2021

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

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34.—(1) Section 49 of the 1949 Act (void marriages)(1) is amended as follows.

(2) For paragraph (b) substitute—

(b)without a marriage schedule having been duly issued by the superintendent registrar of the registration district in which the marriage was solemnized;.

(3) In paragraph (d), for “certificates which are” substitute “a marriage schedule which is”.

(4) In paragraph (e), for “certificates of the superintendent registrar” substitute “(if so specified) in the marriage schedule”.

(1)

Section 49 was amended by paragraph 13 of Schedule 1 to the Marriage Act 1983, paragraph 3 of the Schedule to the Marriage Act 1994 and paragraph 27 of Schedule 14 to the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999.