Section 63 Searches in register books.C1

England and Wales

(1)

Every incumbent, F1... officer of the Society of Friends, secretary of a synagogue and registrar by whom a marriage register book is kept F2may allow searches to be made in any marriage register book in his keepingF3... F4...

(2)

The last foregoing subsection shall apply in the case of a registered building for which an authorised person has been appointed with the substitution for the reference to the incumbent of a reference to the person F5responsible for keeping a marriage register book in accordance with regulations made under section seventy-four of this Act.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Word in s. 63(1) omitted (4.5.2021) by virtue of The Registration of Marriages Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/411), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 36(2)(a) (with Sch. 2)
F2: Word in s. 63(1) substituted (4.5.2021) by The Registration of Marriages Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/411), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 36(2)(b) (with Sch. 2)
F3: Words in s. 63(1) omitted (4.5.2021) by virtue of The Registration of Marriages Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/411), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 36(2)(c) (with Sch. 2)
F4: Words in s. 63(1) omitted (12.7.2016) by virtue of Immigration Act 2016 (c. 19), s. 94(1), Sch. 15 para. 15; S.I. 2016/603, reg. 3(w)
F5: Words in s. 63(2) substituted (4.5.2021) by The Registration of Marriages Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/411), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 36(3) (with Sch. 2)

Modifications

C1: S. 63 modified by Parochial Registers and Records Measure 1978 (No. 2), ss. 20(3), 27(3)