{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-registration-of-marriages-regulations-2021/schedule-2/paragraph-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-registration-of-marriages-regulations-2021/schedule-2/paragraph-6.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/6",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Effect of forbidding before 4th May 2021 in relation to the issue of a certificate by a superintendent registrar",
  "text": "(1) This paragraph applies in a case where—\n(a) a person (“P”) has, before 4th May 2021, forbidden the issue of a certificate for marriage by a superintendent registrar under section 30 of the 1949 Act (forbidding of issue of certificate),\n(b) the marriage concerned is not solemnized before that date, and\n(c) immediately before that date, either or both of the persons to be married still require consent under section 3 of the 1949 Act (marriages of persons under eighteen) from P.\n(2) Where notice of the marriage concerned was given under section 27 of the 1949 Act (notice of marriage), P is to be treated, on and after 4th May 2021, as having forbidden the issue of a marriage schedule under section 30(1) of the 1949 Act as amended by these Regulations.\n(3) Where notice of the marriage concerned was given under section 1 of the 1956 Act (notice of marriage to be solemnized in Scotland), P is to be treated, on and after 4th May 2021, as having forbidden the issue of an approved certificate under section 30(1) of the 1949 Act as amended by these Regulations and as modified by section 1 of the 1956 Act, as so amended.\n(4) The relevant superintendent registrar must, as soon as reasonably practicable, ensure the following is recorded in the marriage register—\n(a) that P forbids the issue of a marriage schedule or (as the case may be) approved certificate,\n(b) P’s name and place of residence, and\n(c) P’s capacity, in relation to either or both of the persons to be married, in which P forbids the issue of a marriage schedule or (as the case may be) approved certificate.\n(5) The relevant superintendent registrar must also ensure that information recorded under sub-paragraph (4) is open to inspection free of charge at all reasonable hours.\n(6) In this paragraph “relevant superintendent registrar” means—\n(a) in a case where the issue of a certificate for marriage was forbidden in accordance with subsection (2) of section 30 of the 1949 Act, the superintendent registrar mentioned in paragraph (a) of that subsection, or\n(b) in any other case, the superintendent registrar who keeps the marriage notice book mentioned in subsection (1) of that section.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 30 was amended by paragraph 13 of Schedule 14 to the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 and S.I. 2009/2821."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2021/9780348220308/schedule/2/paragraph/6",
    "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."
}