# Marriage Act 1949 (Amendment) Act 1954, Section 1: Marriage in usual place of worship outside district of residence.


Section thirty-five of the Marriage Act, 1949 (which prescribes the circumstances in which a superintendent registrar may issue a certificate for the solemnization of a marriage in a building which is not within a registration district in which one of the persons to be married has resided in the case of a marriage without licence for the period of seven days immediately before the giving of the notice of marriage or in the case of a marriage by licence for the period of fifteen days immediately before the giving of that notice) shall be read and have effect as if the following subsection were substituted for subsection (2) of the said section that is to say—
“(2) A superintendent registrar may issue a certificate or, if the marriage is to be by licence, a certificate and a licence, for the solemnization of a marriage in a registered building which is the usual place of worship of the persons to be married, or of one of them, notwithstanding that the building is not within a registration district in which either of those persons resides.”

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/2-3/47/section/1 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/marriage-act-1949-amendment-act-1954/section-1
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