{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marriage-act-1949/schedule-3A/paragraph-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marriage-act-1949/schedule-3A/paragraph-3.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo6/12-13-14/76",
  "legislation_title": "Marriage Act 1949",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marriage-act-1949",
  "path": "schedule/3A/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The modifications in this paragraph have effect if the Secretary of State gives the superintendent registrar notice under section 48(7) of the 2014 Act of a decision to investigate whether the referred marriage is a sham.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) Section 31(4A)(a): the reference to the period of 28 days has effect as a reference to the relevant 70 day period.\n(4) Section 31(5A) ...: the reference to the 28 day period has effect as a reference to the relevant 70 day period.\n(5) Section 31(5B) does not apply.\n(6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(7) In this paragraph “relevant 70 day period” means the period—\n(a) beginning the day after notice of the proposed marriage is recorded in the marriage register in accordance with Part 3 of the Marriage Act 1949, ... and\n(b) ending at the end of the period of 70 days beginning with that day.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 3A inserted (1.3.2015) by Immigration Act 2014 (c. 22), s. 75(3), Sch. 4 para. 9 (with Sch. 9 para. 66); S.I. 2015/371, art. 2(1)(f)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 3A para. 3(2) omitted (4.5.2021) by virtue of The Registration of Marriages Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/411), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 48(4)(a) (with Sch. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 3A para. 3(4) omitted (4.5.2021) by virtue of The Registration of Marriages Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/411), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 48(4)(b) (with Sch. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Sch. 3A para. 3(6) omitted (4.5.2021) by virtue of The Registration of Marriages Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/411), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 48(4)(c) (with Sch. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 3A para. 3(7)(a) substituted (4.5.2021) by The Registration of Marriages Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/411), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 48(4)(d)(i) (with Sch. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 3A para. 3(7)(a) omitted (4.5.2021) by virtue of The Registration of Marriages Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/411), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 48(4)(d)(ii) (with Sch. 2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/12-13-14/76/schedule/3A/paragraph/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:20:09.980125+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."
}