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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marriage-prescription-of-forms-scotland-amendment-regulations-2005/note",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2005/596",
  "legislation_title": "The Marriage (Prescription of Forms) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marriage-prescription-of-forms-scotland-amendment-regulations-2005",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Marriage (Prescription of Forms) (Scotland) Regulations 1997.\nRevised forms relating to the marriage notice (form M10 – regulation 3), the declaration to be made by parties to a marriage who are related by affinity (form DSR – regulation 4), the marriage schedule (regulation 5) and the certificate of no impediment (form M1 – regulation 6) are substituted to reflect changes brought about by the Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c. 33).\nIn addition, the prescribed particulars to be entered in the marriage notice book for the purposes of section 4(1) of the Marriage (Scotland) Act 1977 (c. 15) are amended to include a reference to civil partnership status",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2005/596/note",
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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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