SCHEDULE 1Consequential and related amendments

PART 1Marriage Act 1949

Amendment of Part 6 of the 1949 Act (general)

44.

(1)

Section 75 of the 1949 Act (offences relating to solemnization of marriages)75 is amended as follows.

(2)

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

(3)

In subsection (2)—

(a)

in paragraph (a)(ii), for “certificates” substitute “(if so specified) in the marriage schedule”;

(b)

in paragraph (d), for the words from “certificates” to “notice of marriage” substitute “a marriage schedule when none of the conditions in section 31(3) is met”;

(c)

in paragraph (e), for “certificates of a superintendent registrar” substitute “a marriage schedule”.

(4)

Omit subsection (2A).

(5)

In subsection (3)—

(a)

for paragraph (a), substitute—

“(a)

issues a marriage schedule when none of the conditions in section 31(3) is met;”;

(b)

in paragraph (b), for “any certificate for marriage” substitute “a marriage schedule”;

(c)

in paragraph (c)—

(i)

for “any certificate” substitute “a marriage schedule”;

(ii)

for “such a certificate” substitute “a marriage schedule”.