{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marriage-act-1949/section-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marriage-act-1949/section-17.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo6/12-13-14/76",
  "legislation_title": "Marriage Act 1949",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marriage-act-1949",
  "path": "section/17",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Marriage under marriage schedule.",
  "text": "A marriage according to the rites of the Church of England may be solemnized on the authority of a marriage schedule in force under Part III of this Act in any church or chapel in which banns of matrimony may be published or in the case of a marriage in pursuance of section 26(1)(dd) of this Act the place specified in the notices of marriage and (if so specified) in the marriage schedule as the place where the marriage is to be solemnized:\nProvided that a marriage shall not be solemnized as aforesaid in any such church or chapel without the consent of the minister thereof or (wherever the marriage is solemnized) by any person other than a clergyman.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 17 substituted (4.5.2021) by The Registration of Marriages Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/411), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 5(b) (with Sch. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words inserted by Marriage Act 1983 (c. 32, SIF 49:1), s. 1(7), Sch. 1 para. 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 17 substituted (1.1.2001) by 1999 c. 33, s. 169(1), Sch. 14 para. 3, 6(b); S.I. 2000/2698, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 17 substituted (4.5.2021) by The Registration of Marriages Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/411), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 5(c) (with Sch. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words inserted by Marriage Act 1983 (c. 32, SIF 49:1), s. 1(7), Sch. 1 para. 2(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in s. 17 heading substituted (4.5.2021) by The Registration of Marriages Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/411), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 5(a) (with Sch. 2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/12-13-14/76/section/17",
    "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."
}