{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marriage-keeping-of-records-in-churches-and-chapels-regulations-2021/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marriage-keeping-of-records-in-churches-and-chapels-regulations-2021/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2021/538",
  "legislation_title": "The Marriage (Keeping of Records in Churches and Chapels) Regulations 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marriage-keeping-of-records-in-churches-and-chapels-regulations-2021",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Duty of parochial church councils to provide registers of marriage services",
  "text": "(1) The parochial church council of a parish must provide books for the purpose of making records under regulation 3 to each church and chapel of the Church of England in that parish in which banns of matrimony may be published.\n(2) Books provided under paragraph (1) are to be known as “registers of marriage services”.\n(3) A register of marriage services provided under paragraph (1) must meet the requirements of paragraphs (4) and (5).\n(4) The register must be made of durable material.\n(5) For the purposes of enabling a record to be made in the register under regulation 3 in respect of a marriage, the register must be printed in such a way that it—\n(a) indicates the descriptions of information required by each of sub-paragraphs (a) to (h) of regulation 3(2) in relation to the marriage, and\n(b) provides corresponding spaces for recording information required by each of those sub-paragraphs in relation to the marriage.\n(6) A register of marriage services provided under paragraph (1) by a parochial church council belongs to that parochial church council.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 78(2) of the Marriage Act 1949 provides for references to the Church of England to be construed as including references to the Church in Wales."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2021/538/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:14:05.257871+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."
}