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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-registration-of-marriages-regulations-2021/schedule-2/paragraph-16",
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  "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/16",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Marriage of British Subjects (Facilities) Act 1915 and Marriage of British Subjects (Facilities) Amendment Act 1916",
  "text": "(1) This paragraph applies in a case where—\n(a) a marriage is to be solemnized or contracted in a part of Her Majesty’s dominions outside the United Kingdom to which section 1 of the Marriage of British Subjects (Facilities) Act 1915 (facilities for marriages between British subjects resident in the United Kingdom and British subjects resident elsewhere) applies between a British subject resident in that part and a British subject resident in England or Wales, and\n(b) immediately before 4th May 2021—\n(i) a notice of marriage, given under the 1949 Act, is in force, and\n(ii) a certificate for marriage has not been issued under the 1949 Act.\n(2) On and after 4th May 2021, the Marriage of British Subjects (Facilities) Act 1915, the Marriage of British Subjects (Facilities) Amendment Act 1916 and the 1949 Act have effect as if the amendments made by these Regulations had not been made.\n(3) Regulation 10 of, and Schedule 1 to, the Registration of Marriages Regulations 2015 (forms of certificate and Registrar General’s licence for marriage) 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": "1916 c. 21. The Marriage of British Subjects (Facilities) Amendment Act 1916 was repealed in Scotland by Schedule 3 of the Marriage (Scotland) Act 1977, save that by section 27(3) nothing in that Act affect the validity of any marriage solemnised or contracted before 1st January 1978."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2021/9780348220308/schedule/2/paragraph/16",
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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."
}