The Registration of Marriages Regulations 2021

Amendment of Part 2 of the 1949 Act (marriage according to the rites of the Church of England)

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8.—(1) Section 25 of the 1949 Act (void marriages)(1) is amended as follows.

(2) In subsection (2)(b)—

(a)for “certificates” substitute “a marriage schedule”;

(b)omit “by a superintendent registrar to whom due notice of marriage has been given”.

(3) In subsection (2)(c), for “certificates of a superintendent registrar which are” substitute “a marriage schedule which is”.

(4) In subsection (2)(d)—

(a)for “certificates of a superintendent registrar” substitute “a marriage schedule”;

(b)for “and certificates” substitute “and (if so specified) in the marriage schedule”.

(1)

Section 25 was amended by paragraph 3 of Schedule 1 to the Marriage Act 1983, paragraph 7 of Schedule 14 to the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 and paragraph 4 of Schedule 7 to the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013.