Section 19 England and Wales

the person is exempt from immigration control, and

the notice of marriage is accompanied by the specified evidence required by section 28C(2) of the 1949 Act that the person is exempt from immigration control.

shall be given to the superintendent registrar of a registration district F3which is specified for the purpose of this paragraph by regulations made by the Secretary of State F4and is the appropriate registration district,

shall be delivered to the superintendent registrar in person by the two parties to the marriage,

may be given only if each party to the marriage has been resident in a registration district for the period of seven days immediately before the giving of his or her notice (but the district need not be that in which the notice is given and the parties need not have resided in the same district), and

shall state, in relation to each party, the registration district by reference to which paragraph (c) is satisfied.

if the parties have resided in the same specified registration district for the period of seven days immediately before the giving of the notice (“the 7 day period”), that specified registration district,

if one or both of the parties have resided in a specified registration district (but not the same specified registration district) for the 7 day period, the specified registration district in which one of them has resided for that period, or

if neither of the parties has resided in a specified registration district for the 7 day period, any specified registration district.

a reference to a person being a relevant national, or being exempt from immigration control, has the same meaning as in section 49 of the Immigration Act 2014;

“notice of marriage” means a notice of marriage given under section 27 of the 1949 Act.