{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/births-deaths-marriages-and-civil-partnerships-records-regulations-2016/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/births-deaths-marriages-and-civil-partnerships-records-regulations-2016/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2016/980",
  "legislation_title": "The Births, Deaths, Marriages and Civil Partnerships Records Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/births-deaths-marriages-and-civil-partnerships-records-regulations-2016",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Provision of the information contained in a marriage record in electronic format",
  "text": "(1) The Registrar General may provide a record of information contained in a marriage entry in the Registrar General’s certified copies of entries in any marriage register book, entries in the marriage register made under section 53D(10)(a) of the Marriage Act 1949 and conversion register, in electronic format, following—\n(a) a request for the Registrar General to search for the entry and provide the record of information, or\n(b) in the case of an entry in any marriage register book, a request made via the online view service.\n(2) A request for the Registrar General to undertake a search and provide information under paragraph (1) (a) must be made via the website for the General Register Office.\n(2A) A record of information provided by the Registrar General in response to a request made via the online view service must be provided via the website for the General Register Office.\n(3) The Registrar General may charge a fee for each record provided under paragraph (1) ... and the fee charged is payable to the Registrar General.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 4(1) substituted (9.11.2020) by The Births, Deaths and Marriages (Records and Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1093), regs. 1(2), 2(5)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 4(1) substituted (4.5.2021) by The Registration of Marriages Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/411), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 72(2) (with Sch. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 4(1)(b) substituted (4.5.2021) by The Registration of Marriages Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/411), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 72(3) (with Sch. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Word in reg. 4(2) inserted (9.11.2020) by The Births, Deaths and Marriages (Records and Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1093), regs. 1(2), 2(5)(c)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 4(2) substituted (28.5.2024) by The Registration of Births, Deaths, Marriages and Civil Partnerships (Fees and Records) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/598), regs. 1(2), 7(3) (with reg. 8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Reg. 4(2A) inserted (9.11.2020) by The Births, Deaths and Marriages (Records and Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1093), regs. 1(2), 2(5)(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in reg. 4(3) omitted (16.2.2019) by virtue of The Registration of Births, Deaths, Marriages and Civil Partnerships (Fees) (Amendment) and Multilingual Standard Forms Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1268), regs. 1(2), 7(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Word in reg. 4 heading substituted (9.11.2020) by The Births, Deaths and Marriages (Records and Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1093), regs. 1(2), 2(5)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 4 in force at 7.11.2016, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/980/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:19:29.212160+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}