{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marriage-registrar-generals-licence-act-1970/section-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marriage-registrar-generals-licence-act-1970/section-8.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/8",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Period of validity of licence.",
  "text": "(1) A marriage may be solemnised on the authority of the Registrar General’s licence at any time within one month from the day on which the notice of marriage was entered in the marriage register.\n(2) If the marriage is not solemnised within the said period of one month, the notice of marriage and the licence shall be void, and no person shall solemnise the marriage on the authority thereof.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 8(1) substituted (4.5.2021) by The Registration of Marriages Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/411), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 56(6) (with Sch. 2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1970/34/section/8",
    "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."
}