{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-registration-of-marriages-regulations-2021/schedule-2/paragraph-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-registration-of-marriages-regulations-2021/schedule-2/paragraph-15.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/2/paragraph/15",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Period of validity of Registrar General’s licence and offence of solemnization of marriage after one month from date of entry of notice",
  "text": "(1) This paragraph applies in a case where—\n(a) a notice of marriage is entered in a marriage notice book in accordance with section 2 of the Marriage (Registrar General’s Licence) Act 1970 (notice of marriage) before 4th May 2021, and\n(b) the marriage is not solemnized before that date.\n(2) Sections 8(1) and 16(1)(c) of the Marriage (Registrar General’s Licence) Act 1970 (period of validity of licence and offence of solemnising marriage after expiry of validity of Registrar General’s licence) have effect as if the amendments made by these Regulations had not been made.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1970 c. 34. Section 2 was amended by paragraph 24 of Schedule 7 to the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2021/9780348220308/schedule/2/paragraph/15",
    "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."
}