Article 7 Transitional Provisions as to Notices, etc,. under the 1949 Act
The Registrar General shall designate a superintendent registrar to be the successor to the superintendent registrar for a district which is to be abolished on 1st April 1996.
The superintendent registrar of any district which will be abolished on 1st April 1996 shall for one month before that date display the name and address of the successor superintendent registrar in a conspicuous position in his office, and shall give that information to every person giving notice of marriage.
Where a notice of marriage is given before 1st April 1996 to any superintendent registrar whose district will be altered or abolished on that date and the marriage has not been solemnized before that date, the following provisions shall apply—
where the district is altered, the provisions of the 1949 Act with regard to the issue of a certificate or a certificate and licence shall apply as if the alteration had not taken place;
where the district is abolished, the notice of marriage shall have effect as if it has been given to the successor superintendent registrar, and
the successor superintendent registrar shall cause any notice of marriage or exact copy of particulars entered in the marriage notice book and required to be displayed under subsection (1) of section 31 of the 1949 Act to be affixed in some conspicuous place in his office from 1st April 1996 for any unexpired portion of the period mentioned in that subsection;
the successor superintendent registrar, and any other superintendent registrar so empowered by the 1949 Act may in accordance with the provisions of that Act issue a certificate or a certificate and licence for the solemnization of the marriage notwithstanding that the building in which the marriage is to be solemnized is not within his district or within the district where one of the persons to be married resides; and
the successor superintendent registrar may arrange for the solemnization of the marriage in his office where the persons to be married had stated in the notice of marriage that they wished to be married in the office of the superintendent registrar to whom the notice was given.
Where notice of a marriage is given before 1st April 1996 and that marriage is to be solemnized in the office of a superintendent registrar for a district which is to be altered or abolished on that date and the marriage has not been solemnized before that date, the following provisions shall apply—
where the district is altered the notice of marriage shall be treated as though it specified the office of the superintendent registrar for the altered district; and
where the district is abolished the notice of marriage shall be treated as though it specified the office of the successor superintendent registrar.
For the purpose of any notice of marriage to be given on or after 1st April 1996, the alteration or establishment of any registration district by an approved registration scheme shall be deemed to have taken effect 32 days before 1st April 1996.