{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-and-asylum-act-1999/section-162",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-and-asylum-act-1999/section-162.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1999/33",
  "legislation_title": "Immigration and Asylum Act 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-and-asylum-act-1999",
  "path": "section/162",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "162",
  "heading": "Power to require evidence.",
  "text": "(1) In the Marriage Act 1949, after section 28, insert—\n“ Power to require evidence.\n28A (1) A superintendent registrar to whom a notice of marriage is given under section 27, or any other person attesting a declaration accompanying such a notice, may require the person giving the notice to provide him with specified evidence—\n(a) relating to that person; or\n(b) if the superintendent registrar considers that the circumstances are exceptional, relating to each of the persons to be married.\n(2) Such a requirement may be imposed at any time—\n(a) on or after the giving of the notice of marriage; but\n(b) before the superintendent registrar issues his certificate under section 31.\n(3) “Specified evidence”, in relation to a person, means such evidence of that person’s—\n(a) name and surname,\n(b) age,\n(c) marital status, and\n(d) nationality,\nas may be specified in guidance issued by the Registrar General.”\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 162(2) repealed (N.I.) (1.1.2004) by The Marriage (Northern Ireland) Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/413), art. 1(2), Sch.; S.R. 2003/466, art. 2(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 162 wholly in force at 1.1.2001, see s. 170(4) and S.I. 2000/2698, art. 2, Sch. (as amended by S.I. 2000/3099, art. 4) subject to the transitional provision in art. 3 (as inserted by art. 4 of the said S.I. 2000/3099)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1999/33/section/162",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:21:34.566084+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."
}