Section 2 Provisions relating to marriage.

United Kingdom

In the following enactments, that is to say—

F1(a)

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(b)

paragraph 2(c) of Part I of the Schedule to the M1Marriage with Foreigners Act 1906 (persons under 21 seeking certificate to swear that necessary consents have been obtained);

(c)

section 78(1) of the M2Marriage Act 1949 (definition of “infant ” as person under the age of 21),

for the words “twenty-one years ” there shall be substituted the words “eighteen years ”.

F2(2)

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(3)

Where for the purpose of obtaining a certificate F3. . . for marriage F4or marriage schedule under Part III of the said Act of 1949 a person declares that the consent of any person or persons whose consent to the marriage is required under the said section 3 has been obtained, the superintendent registrar may refuse to issue the certificate . . . for marriage or marriage schedule unless satisfied by the production of written evidence that the consent of that person or of those persons has in fact been obtained.

(4)

In this section any expression which is also used in the said Act of 1949 has the same meaning as in that Act.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: S. 2(1)(a) repealed by Foreign Marriage (Amendment) Act 1988 (c. 44, SIF 49:1), s. 7(2), Sch.
F2: S. 2(2) repealed (22.4.2014) by Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c. 22), s. 61(3), Sch. 11 para. 210 Table; S.I. 2014/954, art. 2(e) (with art. 3) (with transitional provisions and savings in S.I. 2014/956, arts. 3-11)
F3: Words in s. 2(3) repealed (1.1.2001) by 1999 c. 33, s. 169(1)(3), Sch. 14 para. 37, Sch. 16; S.I. 2000/2698, art. 2, Sch.
F4: Words in s. 2(3) inserted (4.5.2021) by The Registration of Marriages Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/411), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 55 (with Sch. 2)

Marginal citations

M1: 1906 c. 40.
M2: 1949 c. 76.

Modifications

C1: The text of ss. 2(1), 19(2), Sch. 1 is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and, except as specified, does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991

Extent

E1: S. 2: see s. 28(4)(b)