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The Registration of Marriages Regulations 2021

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Amendment of Schedule 3A to the 1949 Act (modifications if proposed marriage referred under section 28H)

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48.—(1) Schedule 3A to the 1949 Act (modifications if proposed marriage referred under section 28H)(1) is amended as follows.

(2) In the italic heading before paragraph 2 for “certificate” substitute “marriage schedule”.

(3) In paragraph 2 (events for issue of certificate)—

(a)in sub-paragraphs (1) and (8), for “certificate” substitute “marriage schedule”;

(b)in sub-paragraphs (2)(a), (3)(b), (4)(a) and (c), (5)(b), (6) and (7)(a) and (c), after “the superintendent registrar” insert “or (as the case may be) superintendent registrars”.

(4) In paragraph 3 (extension of waiting period to 70 days where marriage to be investigated)—

(a)omit sub-paragraph (2);

(b)in sub-paragraph (4), omit “and (5C)”;

(c)omit sub-paragraph (6);

(d)in sub-paragraph (7)(a)—

(i)for “entered in the marriage book” substitute “recorded in the marriage register”;

(ii)omit “or is entered in an approved electronic form by virtue of section 27(4A) of that Act,”.

(5) In paragraph 4 (effect of reducing statutory period), in sub-paragraphs (1)(b), (2) and (4), for “certificate” (in each place it appears) substitute “marriage schedule”.

(1)

Schedule 3A was inserted by paragraph 9 of Schedule 4 to the Immigration Act 2014.

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