SCHEDULE 1Consequential and related amendments

PART 1Marriage Act 1949

Amendment of Part 4 of the 1949 Act (registration of marriages)

36.—(1) Section 63 of the 1949 Act (searches in register books)(1) is amended as follows.

(2) In subsection (1)—

(a)omit “registering”;

(b)for “shall at all reasonable hours” substitute “may”;

(c)omit “, and shall give a copy certified under his hand of any entry in such a book”.

(3) In subsection (2), for “having the custody of” substitute “responsible for keeping”.

(1)

Section 63(1) was amended by paragraph 15 of Schedule 15 to the Immigration Act 2016.