{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marriage-act-1949-amendment-act-1954/section-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marriage-act-1949-amendment-act-1954/section-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Eliz2/2-3/47",
  "legislation_title": "Marriage Act 1949 (Amendment) Act 1954",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marriage-act-1949-amendment-act-1954",
  "path": "section/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Marriage by ceremony of appropriate denomination outside district of residence.",
  "text": "In subsection (1) of the said section thirty-five (which provides for the marriage of persons in a registered building in a district in which neither of them resides where the notice is given by a person professing to belong to a body of christians) the following paragraph shall be substituted for paragraph (a), that is to say:—\n“(a) that the persons to be married desire the marriage to be solemnized according to a specified form, rite or ceremony, being a form, rite or ceremony of a body or denomination of christians or other persons meeting for religious worship to which one of them professes to belong.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "The text of ss. 1 and 2 is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/2-3/47/section/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:15:57.510539+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."
}