# The Registration of Marriages Regulations 2021, Paragraph 9: Appeal on refusal to issue a certificate for a marriage to be solemnized on or after 4th May 2021


(1) For the purposes of section 31A of the 1949 Act (appeal on refusal under section 31(2)(a) or 31ZA), as amended by these Regulations, a refusal by a superintendent registrar to issue a certificate before 4th May 2021, which is not appealed before that date, is to be treated on and after 4th May 2021 as a refusal to issue—
(a) a marriage schedule, or
(b) where notice of the marriage concerned was given under section 1 of the 1956 Act (notice of marriage to be solemnized in Scotland), an approved certificate.
(2) An appeal under section 31A against a refusal by a superintendent registrar to issue a certificate which is ongoing immediately before 4th May 2021 is to be treated on and after that date as an appeal under section 31A, as amended by these Regulations, against a refusal to issue—
(a) a marriage schedule, or
(b) where notice of the marriage concerned was given under section 1 of the 1956 Act, an approved certificate.
(3) Where sub-paragraph (1)(a) or (2)(a) applies, section 31A applies as if—
(a) for subsection (2)(b) there were substituted—
“(b) direct the superintendent registrar for the registration district in which the marriage is to be solemnized to issue a marriage schedule, once satisfied that one of the conditions in section 31(3) of the 1949 Act, as amended by these Regulations, is met.”, and
(b) the reference, in subsection (2A)(b), to a direction that a marriage schedule be issued were a reference to a direction under subsection (2)(b).
(4) Where notice of marriage has been given under section 27 of the 1949 Act (notice of marriage) and—
(a) the Registrar General has directed, under section 31A(2)(b), before 4th May 2021, that a certificate be issued, and
(b) no certificate or marriage schedule has been issued before that date,
that direction is to be treated on and after 4th May 2021 as a direction, to the superintendent registrar for the registration district in which the marriage is to be solemnized, to issue a marriage schedule, once satisfied that one of the conditions in section 31(3) of the 1949 Act, as amended by these Regulations, is met.
(5) Where notice of marriage has been given under section 1 of the 1956 Act and—
(a) the Registrar General has directed, under section 31A(2)(b), before 4th May 2021, that a certificate be issued, and
(b) no certificate or approved certificate has been issued before that date,
that direction is to be treated on and after 4th May 2021 as a direction, to the superintendent registrar to whom notice was given, to issue an approved certificate, once satisfied that the waiting period mentioned in section 31(3)(a) of the 1949 Act, as amended by these Regulations, has expired in relation to that notice.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2021/9780348220308/schedule/2/paragraph/9 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/draft-registration-of-marriages-regulations-2021/schedule-2/paragraph-9
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