{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marriage-act-1949/section-50",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marriage-act-1949/section-50.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo6/12-13-14/76",
  "legislation_title": "Marriage Act 1949",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marriage-act-1949",
  "path": "section/50",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "50",
  "heading": "Person to whom marriage schedule to be delivered.",
  "text": "(A1) This section applies where the parties to a marriage have been issued a marriage schedule under section 31(4).\n(1) The parties to the marriage must deliver the marriage schedule to the following person :—\n(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(b) if the marriage is to be solemnized in a registered building without the presence of a registrar, the authorised person in whose presence the marriage is to be solemnized;\n(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(cc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(d) if the marriage is to be solemnized according to the usages of the Society of Friends, an officer of that Society for the place where the marriage is to be solemnized;\n(e) if the marriage is to be solemnized according to the usages of persons professing the Jewish religion, the officer of a synagogue by whom the marriage schedule is required to be signed in accordance with section 53C;\n(f) if the marriage is to be solemnized according to the rites of the Church of England, the officiating clergyman.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 50(A1) inserted (4.5.2021) by The Registration of Marriages Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/411), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 35(3) (with Sch. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 50(1) substituted (4.5.2021) by The Registration of Marriages Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/411), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 35(4)(a) (with Sch. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 50(1)(a) omitted (4.5.2021) by virtue of The Registration of Marriages Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/411), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 35(4)(b) (with Sch. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 50(1)(c) omitted (4.5.2021) by virtue of The Registration of Marriages Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/411), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 35(4)(b) (with Sch. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "S. 50(1)(cc) omitted (4.5.2021) by virtue of The Registration of Marriages Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/411), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 35(4)(b) (with Sch. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Word in s. 50(1)(d) substituted (4.5.2021) by The Registration of Marriages Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/411), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 35(4)(c) (with Sch. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in s. 50(1)(e) substituted (4.5.2021) by The Registration of Marriages Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/411), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 35(4)(d) (with Sch. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "S. 50(2) repealed (1.1.2001) by 1999 c. 33, s. 169(1)(3), Sch. 14 paras. 3, 28(b), Sch. 16; S.I. 2000/2698, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "S. 50(3) omitted (4.5.2021) by virtue of The Registration of Marriages Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/411), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 35(5) (with Sch. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Words in s. 50 heading substituted (4.5.2021) by The Registration of Marriages Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/411), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 35(2) (with Sch. 2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/12-13-14/76/section/50",
    "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."
}