{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marriage-registrar-generals-licence-act-1970/section-13",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marriage-registrar-generals-licence-act-1970/section-13.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": "section/13",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "Void marriages.",
  "text": "The provisions of section 49 of the principal Act (void marriages) shall apply to a marriage under the authority of the Registrar General’s licence:—\n(a) as if for paragraph (b) there were substituted—\n“(b) without a Registrar General’s licence;”;\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(c) with the substitution for paragraph (d) of the words “on the authority of a licence which is void by virtue of section 8(2) of the Marriage (Registrar General’s Licence) Act 1970”;\n(d) with the substitution for paragraph (e) of the words “in any place other than the place specified in the notice of marriage and the Registrar General’s licence”;\n(e) with the substitution for paragraphs (f) and (g) of the words “in the absence of a registrar or, where the marriage is by civil ceremony, of a superintendent registrar, except where the marriage is solemnised according to the usages of the Society of Friends or is a marriage between two persons professing the Jewish religion according to the usages of the Jews”.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 13(a) substituted (4.5.2021) by The Registration of Marriages Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/411), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 56(8) (with Sch. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 13(b) repealed (1.1.2001) by 1999 c. 33 , s. 169(1)(3) , Sch. 14 para. 42(b) ; S.I. 2000/2698 , art. 2 , Sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1970/34/section/13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:51:06.522269+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."
}