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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marriage-registrar-generals-licence-act-1970/section-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marriage-registrar-generals-licence-act-1970/section-18.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/18",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Regulations.",
  "text": "(1) The Registrar General, with the approval of the Secretary of State, may by statutory instrument make regulations prescribing anything which is required in this Act to be prescribed.\n(2) Any power to make regulations shall include power to vary or revoke those regulations.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 18 substituted (3.4.2008) by Transfer of Functions (Registration) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/678), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 9 (with art. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Functions under s. 18 transferred from the Secretary of State to the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1.4.1996) by S.I. 1996/273, art. 3(1), Sch. 1 para. 11"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 18: transfer of functions (3.4.2008) by Transfer of Functions (Registration) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/678), art. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 9 (with art. 4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1970/34/section/18",
    "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."
}