{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marriage-northern-ireland-order-2003/schedule-2/paragraph-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marriage-northern-ireland-order-2003/schedule-2/paragraph-4.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/2003/413",
  "legislation_title": "The Marriage (Northern Ireland) Order 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marriage-northern-ireland-order-2003",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Requests to complete the marriage schedule before expiry of 70 day period",
  "text": "(1) This paragraph applies if the Secretary of State gives the registrar notice under section 48(8A) of the 2014 Act of a decision to investigate whether the referred marriage is a sham.\n(2) A party to the referred marriage may request the registrar to complete the marriage schedule before the expiry of the relevant 70 day period.\n(3) That request shall—\n(a) be in writing, and\n(b) give the reasons why it is necessary for the marriage schedule to be completed before the expiry of the relevant 70 day period.\n(4) A registrar may not complete the marriage schedule before the expiry of the relevant 70 day period unless authorised to do so by the Registrar General.\n(5) The Registrar General may, with the consent of the Secretary of State, authorise the registrar to complete the marriage schedule on such date as the Registrar General considers necessary before the expiry of the relevant 70 day period.\n(6) But the Secretary of State’s consent is not required if the request is made because a party to the referred marriage is gravely ill and not expected to recover.\n(7) In this paragraph and paragraph 5 “relevant 70 day period” has the same meaning as in Article 7 (as modified by paragraph 3).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 inserted (1.3.2015) by The Referral and Investigation of Proposed Marriages and Civil Partnerships (Northern Ireland and Miscellaneous Provisions) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/395), art. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 4 (with art. 1(3))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/2003/413/schedule/2/paragraph/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:40:22.940880+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."
}