{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marriage-act-1983/schedule-1/paragraph-20",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marriage-act-1983/schedule-1/paragraph-20.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1983/32",
  "legislation_title": "Marriage Act 1983",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marriage-act-1983",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/20",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In section 75 (criminal offences)—\n(a) in paragraph (c) of subsection (1) after the words “special licence” there shall be inserted the words “or a marriage in pursuance of section 26(1)(dd) of this Act”;\n(b) in subsection (2)(a)(ii) for the words “or office specified” there shall be substituted the words “office or person’s residence specified as the place where the marriage was to be solemnized”;\n(c) after subsection (2)(b) there shall be inserted the following paragraph—\n“(bb) solemnizes a marriage in pursuance of section 26(1)(dd) of this Act, otherwise than according to the rites of the Church of England, in the absence of a registrar of the registration district in which the place where the marriage is solemnized is situated;”;\n(d) in subsection (3)(d) after the words “in his office” there shall be inserted the words “or, in the case of a marriage in pursuance of section 26(1)(dd) of this Act, in any other place”.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1983/32/schedule/1/paragraph/20",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:08:15.178590+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."
}