{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-registration-of-marriages-regulations-2021/schedule-1/paragraph-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-registration-of-marriages-regulations-2021/schedule-1/paragraph-7.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/7",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Amendment of Part 2 of the 1949 Act (marriage according to the rites of the Church of England)",
  "text": "After section 21 of the 1949 Act (authorising of publication of banns and solemnization of marriages in churches and chapels of extra-parochial places), insert—\n“Issue of marriage document after publication of banns or the grant of a special or common licence\nIssue of marriage document after publication of banns or the grant of a special or common licence\n21A (1) This section applies to a marriage solemnized—\n(a) after the publication of banns,\n(b) on the authority of a special licence, or\n(c) on the authority of a common licence.\n(2) Before the solemnization of the marriage, the clergyman who is to solemnize the marriage must issue a document, or ensure a document is issued and provided to the clergyman, in any form, and with any content, that may be prescribed.\n(3) The document issued under subsection (2) is to be known as a “marriage document”.\n(4) The clergyman must retain the marriage document until it is delivered to a registrar in accordance with section 53D(2).”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 21 was applied by section 6(4) of the Sharing of Church Buildings Act 1969 (c. 38)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2021/9780348220308/schedule/1/paragraph/7",
    "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."
}