{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marriage-registrar-generals-licence-act-1970/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marriage-registrar-generals-licence-act-1970/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1970/34",
  "legislation_title": "Marriage (Registrar General’s Licence) Act 1970",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marriage-registrar-generals-licence-act-1970",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to permit marriages on unregistered premises; and for purposes connected therewith.\n[29th May 1970]",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Words of enactment omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1948 (c. 62), s. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Act applied (13.3.2014) by Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 (c. 30), ss. 1(2)(c), 21(3); S.I. 2014/93, art. 3(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Act wholly in force 1.1.1971 see s. 20(4)"
    }
  ],
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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."
}