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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marriage-and-civil-partnership-prescribed-forms-scotland-regulations-2014/introduction",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2014/306",
  "legislation_title": "The Marriage and Civil Partnership (Prescribed Forms) (Scotland) Regulations 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marriage-and-civil-partnership-prescribed-forms-scotland-regulations-2014",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Civil Partnership\nRegistration Of Births, Deaths, Marriages, Etc.\nMarriage\nMade 11th November 2014\nLaid before the Scottish Parliament 13th November 2014\nComing into force 16th December 2014\nThe Registrar General makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 88(1) and (5), and 95ZA of the Civil Partnership Act 2004, section 55(2) of the Local Electoral Administration and Registration Services (Scotland) Act 2006, sections 3(1), 6(1) and 7(2) of the Marriage (Scotland) Act 1977, sections 32(1) and 54(1)(b) of the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Scotland) Act 1965 and all other powers enabling him to do so.\nIn accordance with section 126(3) of the Civil Partnership Act 2004, section 60(1) of the Local Electoral Administration and Registration Services (Scotland) Act 2006, section 25(1) of the Marriage (Scotland) Act 1977 and section 54(1) of the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Scotland) Act 1965, the Scottish Ministers have approved the making of these Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2004 c.33; section 88(5) was amended by the Local Electoral Administration and Registration Services (Scotland) Act 2006 (asp 14), Part 2, section 52(2); section 95ZA was inserted by the Marriage and Civil Partnership (Scotland) Act 2014 (asp 5), section 24(15). The Civil Partnership Act 2004, section 126(1) contains a definition of “prescribed”, and section 135 contains a definition of “Registrar General” relevant to the exercise of the statutory powers under which these Regulations are made."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2006 asp 14; section 60(1) contains a definition of “prescribed” relevant to the exercise of the powers under which these Regulations are made."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1977 c.15; section 3(1) was relevantly amended by the Local Electoral Administration and Registration Services (Scotland) Act 2006 (asp 14), Part 2, section 50(2)(a), the Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c.33), Schedule 28(4), paragraph 43(a), and the Marriage (Prohibited Degrees of Relationship) Act 1986 (c.16), section 2, Schedule 2, paragraph 3; section 6(1) was relevantly amended by the Marriage (Prohibited Degrees of Relationship) Act 1986 (c.16), sections 2, 6(6) and Schedule 2, paragraph 5; section 7(2) was relevantly amended by the Marriage and Civil Partnership (Scotland) Act 2014 (asp 5), section 18(3); the Marriage (Scotland) Act 1977 (c.15), Section 26(2) contains a definition of “prescribed” relevant to the exercise of the powers under which these Regulations are made."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "1965 c.49; section 32(1) was amended by paragraph 8 of Schedule 2 to the Marriage (Scotland) Act 1977 (c.15). Section 56(1) contains a definition of “prescribed” relevant to the exercise of the power under which these Regulations are made, and section 1 contains a definition of “Registrar General” relevant to the exercise of the statutory powers under which these Regulations are made."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "The powers to make this Order are exercised together by virtue of section 33(2) of the Interpretation and Legislative Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 (asp 10). The Order is subject to the negative procedure by virtue of section 33(4) of that Act."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2014/306/introduction",
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  "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."
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