Article 10 Register of marriages

A registration officer for the consular district, nominated by the Secretary of State for these purposes, must maintain a register and therein register the details provided in accordance with article 4(3) of every marriage solemnized in the consular district in accordance with this Order.

The entry in the register of every marriage must be signed by the registration officer solemnizing the marriage, by both the parties married and by two witnesses to the marriage.

Every nominated registration officer must, at such times as are determined by the Secretary of State, send to the Registrar General for England and Wales a copy of all the entries of marriages in the register kept by the registration officer entered since such details were last sent, and if there has been no such entry, confirmation of that fact.

Where the Registrar General for England and Wales receives a copy of an entry of marriage in the register under paragraph (3) in relation to which the parties elected Scotland as the relevant part of the United Kingdom for the purposes of the marriage, the Registrar General for England and Wales must send a certified copy of the entry to the Registrar General for Scotland.

Any person shall be entitled, upon payment of a fee, to obtain from the Registrar General for England and Wales or the Registrar General for Scotland, as the case may be, a certified copy of an entry of marriage in the register received under paragraph (3) or (4).

The fee payable under paragraph (5) shall be the same fee as is for the time being charged by that Registrar General for the provision of a certified copy of, and any necessary search for, an entry in the records in his custody of marriages performed in England and Wales or Scotland, as the case may be.