{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marriage-act-1949/section-63",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marriage-act-1949/section-63.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo6/12-13-14/76",
  "legislation_title": "Marriage Act 1949",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marriage-act-1949",
  "path": "section/63",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "63",
  "heading": "Searches in register books.",
  "text": "(1) Every incumbent, ... officer of the Society of Friends, secretary of a synagogue and registrar by whom a marriage register book is kept may allow searches to be made in any marriage register book in his keeping... ...\n(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 responsible for keeping a marriage register book in accordance with regulations made under section seventy-four of this Act.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "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)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "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)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "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)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "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)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "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)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 63 modified by Parochial Registers and Records Measure 1978 (No. 2), ss. 20(3), 27(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/12-13-14/76/section/63",
    "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."
}