SCHEDULE 1Consequential and related amendments

PART 1Marriage Act 1949

Amendment of Part 3 of the 1949 Act (marriage under superintendent registrar’s certificate)23

1

Section 33 of the 1949 Act (period of validity of certificate)54 is amended as follows.

2

In the heading, for “certificate” substitute “marriage schedule”.

3

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

4

In subsection (2)—

a

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

b

in paragraph (b) for “those certificates” substitute “that marriage schedule”.

5

In subsection (3), for “entered in the marriage notice book, or in an approved electronic form by virtue of section 27(4A),” substitute “recorded in the marriage register”.

6

In subsection (4), for “given” (in the second place it appears) substitute “recorded in the marriage register”.