{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/foreign-marriage-order-1970/article-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/foreign-marriage-order-1970/article-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1970/1539",
  "legislation_title": "The Foreign Marriage Order 1970",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/foreign-marriage-order-1970",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "For the purpose of marriages to be solemnised by or before a consular officer who is a marriage officer, every place within the curtilage or precincts of the building which is for the time being used for the purpose of his office shall be part of the official house of such marriage officer, and every place to which the public have ordinary access in such official house shall be deemed to be part of the office of such marriage officer.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Order revoked (E.W.S.) (3.6.2014) by The Consular Marriages and Marriages under Foreign Law Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/1110), arts. 1(1), 17"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 5 in force at 1.1.1971, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1970/1539/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T22:54:06.108168+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."
}