{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marriage-act-1949/schedule-3A/paragraph-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marriage-act-1949/schedule-3A/paragraph-4.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/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) This paragraph applies if—\n(a) the Secretary of State gives notice under section 31(5EB) of the grant of an application made under section 31(5A) (reduction of statutory period) in relation to the referred marriage, and\n(b) that notice is given at a time when the duty under section 31(2) to issue a marriage schedule in respect of the referred marriage has not arisen in accordance with paragraph 2.\n(2) The duty under subsection 31(2) to issue a marriage schedule in respect of the referred marriage arises on the giving of the notice, subject to any other requirements applicable to the issue of the marriage schedule being met.\n(3) But the requirements of paragraph 2 are not applicable in such a case.\n(4) The Secretary of State is not prevented from deciding to conduct, conducting, or continuing, an investigation if a marriage schedule in respect of the referred marriage is issued as mentioned in sub-paragraph (2).\n(5) But in such a case, nothing in the 2014 Act requires the Secretary of State to decide whether to conduct, to conduct, or to continue, an investigation.\n(6) In this paragraph “investigation” means an investigation, conducted following a decision by the Secretary of State under section 48 of the 2014 Act, whether a proposed marriage is a sham.",
  "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": "Words in Sch. 3A para. 4(1)(b) substituted (4.5.2021) by The Registration of Marriages Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/411), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 48(5) (with Sch. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 3A para. 4(2) substituted (4.5.2021) by The Registration of Marriages Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/411), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 48(5) (with Sch. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 3A para. 4(4) substituted (4.5.2021) by The Registration of Marriages Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/411), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 48(5) (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/4",
    "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."
}