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Regulation 9 Qualifying marriages solemnized according to religious ritesI1

England and Wales

(1)

The Registrar General must not register in the Gender Recognition Marriage Register any particulars that would indicate that a qualifying marriage was solemnized according to religious rites or usages, or on religious premises.

(2)

Where paragraph (1) applies, the marriage is to be registered in the Gender Recognition Marriage Register as if it had been solemnized in the presence of a superintendent registrar in a register office F1by entering the particulars required for registration of a marriage on the applicable date under the Marriage Act 1949.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Words in reg. 9(2) substituted (4.5.2021) by The Registration of Marriages Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/411), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 68(5) (with Sch. 2)

Commencement

I1

Reg. 9 in force at 6.2.2015, see reg. 1