{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-registration-of-marriages-regulations-2021/schedule-1/paragraph-48",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-registration-of-marriages-regulations-2021/schedule-1/paragraph-48.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2021/9780348220308",
  "legislation_title": "The Registration of Marriages Regulations 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-registration-of-marriages-regulations-2021",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/48",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "48",
  "heading": "Amendment of Schedule 3A to the 1949 Act (modifications if proposed marriage referred under section 28H)",
  "text": "(1) Schedule 3A to the 1949 Act (modifications if proposed marriage referred under section 28H) is amended as follows.\n(2) In the italic heading before paragraph 2 for “certificate” substitute “marriage schedule”.\n(3) In paragraph 2 (events for issue of certificate)—\n(a) in sub-paragraphs (1) and (8), for “certificate” substitute “marriage schedule”;\n(b) in sub-paragraphs (2)(a), (3)(b), (4)(a) and (c), (5)(b), (6) and (7)(a) and (c), after “the superintendent registrar” insert “or (as the case may be) superintendent registrars”.\n(4) In paragraph 3 (extension of waiting period to 70 days where marriage to be investigated)—\n(a) omit sub-paragraph (2);\n(b) in sub-paragraph (4), omit “and (5C)”;\n(c) omit sub-paragraph (6);\n(d) in sub-paragraph (7)(a)—\n(i) for “entered in the marriage book” substitute “recorded in the marriage register”;\n(ii) omit “or is entered in an approved electronic form by virtue of section 27(4A) of that Act,”.\n(5) In paragraph 4 (effect of reducing statutory period), in sub-paragraphs (1)(b), (2) and (4), for “certificate” (in each place it appears) substitute “marriage schedule”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Schedule 3A was inserted by paragraph 9 of Schedule 4 to the Immigration Act 2014."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2021/9780348220308/schedule/1/paragraph/48",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:47:45.896736+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."
}