{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marriage-act-1949/section-49",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marriage-act-1949/section-49.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo6/12-13-14/76",
  "legislation_title": "Marriage Act 1949",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marriage-act-1949",
  "path": "section/49",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "49",
  "heading": "Void marriages.",
  "text": "If any persons knowingly and wilfully intermarry under the provisions of this Part of this Act—\n(a) without having given due notice of marriage to the superintendent registrar;\n(b) without a marriage schedule having been duly issued by the superintendent registrar of the registration district in which the marriage was solemnized;\n(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(d) on the authority of a marriage schedule which is void by virtue of subsection (2) of section thirty-three of this Act;\n(e) in any place other than the church, chapel, registered building, office or other place specified in the notices of marriage and (if so specified) in the marriage schedule;\n(ee) in the case of a marriage purporting to be in pursuance of section 26(1)(bb) of this Act, on any premises that at the time the marriage is solemnized are not approved premises;\n(f) in the case of a marriage in a registered building (not being a marriage in the presence of an authorised person), in the absence of a registrar of the registration district in which the registered building is situated; ...\n(g) in the case of a marriage in the office of a superintendent registrar, in the absence of the superintendent registrar or of a registrar of the registration district of that superintendent registrar; ...\n(gg) in the case of a marriage on approved premises, in the absence of the superintendent registrar of the registration district in which the premises are situated or in the absence of a registrar of that district; or\n(h) in the case of a marriage to which section 45A of this Act applies, in the absence of any superintendent registrar or registrar whose presence at that marriage is required by that section;\nthe marriage shall be void.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 49(b) substituted (4.5.2021) by The Registration of Marriages Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/411), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 34(2) (with Sch. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 49(c) repealed (1.1.2001) by 1999 c. 33, s. 169(1), Sch. 14 paras. 3, 27(b); S.I. 2000/2698, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 49(d) substituted (4.5.2021) by The Registration of Marriages Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/411), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 34(3) (with Sch. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 49(e) substituted (1.1.2001) by 1999 c. 33, s. 169(1), Sch. 14 paras. 3, 27(d); S.I. 2000/2698, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 49(e) substituted (4.5.2021) by The Registration of Marriages Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/411), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 34(4) (with Sch. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "S. 49(ee) inserted (1.4.1995) by 1994 c. 34, s. 1(3), Sch. para. 3(a); S.I. 1995/424, art. 2(2)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Word in s. 49(f)(g) omitted (1.4.1995) by virtue of 1994 c. 34, s. 1(3), Sch. para. 3(b); S.I. 1995/424, art. 2(2)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "S. 49(h) and word “or” immediately preceding it inserted (E.W.) by Marriage Act 1983 (c. 32, SIF 49:1), s. 1(7), Sch. 1 para. 13"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "S. 49(gg) inserted (1.4.1995) by 1994 c. 34, s. 1(3), Sch. para. 3(c); S.I. 1995/424, art. 2(2)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 49 applied (with modifications) by Marriage (Registrar General's Licence) Act 1970 (c. 34), s. 13"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/12-13-14/76/section/49",
    "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."
}