{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marriage-regulations-northern-ireland-2003/regulation-27",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marriage-regulations-northern-ireland-2003/regulation-27.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2003/468",
  "legislation_title": "The Marriage Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marriage-regulations-northern-ireland-2003",
  "path": "regulation/27",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "27",
  "heading": "Fees for attendance of Registrars",
  "text": "An authority may determine a fee in respect of the attendance by the registrar at approved places and any such fee shall –\n(a) be the amount which reasonably represents the costs incurred or to be incurred directly or indirectly by the authority in respect of that attendance; and\n(b) be payable to the authority by the parties to an intended civil marriage not less than 14 days, or such lesser period as the authority may determine, prior to the solemnisation of the marriage.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 27 in operation at 1.1.2004, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2014/296",
      "affecting_title": "The Marriage (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014"
    },
    {
      "type": "modified",
      "affecting": "uksi/2020/1143",
      "affecting_title": "The Marriage and Civil Partnership (Northern Ireland) (No. 2) Regulations 2020"
    },
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "nisr/2003/468",
      "affecting_title": "The Marriage Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2003/468/regulation/27",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:00:38.097059+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."
}