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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/deregulation-validity-of-civil-preliminaries-to-marriage-order-1997/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/986",
  "legislation_title": "The Deregulation (Validity of Civil Preliminaries to Marriage) Order 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/deregulation-validity-of-civil-preliminaries-to-marriage-order-1997",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order amends the Marriage Act 1949 so that a marriage may be solemnized up to twelve months after entry of notice given to a superintendent registrar in the marriage notice book (Article 2(2) and (3)). The relevant period was previously three months.\nThe extended period of validity of civil preliminaries to marriage does not apply to the marriage of a person who is housebound or detained, or to marriages where one of the parties is resident in Scotland or Northern Ireland (Article 2(3)).\nThe Order makes consequential amendments to the provisions on offences relating to solemnization of marriages (Article 2(4)) and transitional provision for notices entered in the marriage notice book prior to the date on which it comes into force (Article 3).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/986/note",
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  "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."
}