{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marriages-approved-premises-amendment-regulations-2003/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marriages-approved-premises-amendment-regulations-2003/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2003/1961",
  "legislation_title": "The Marriages (Approved Premises) (Amendment) Regulations 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marriages-approved-premises-amendment-regulations-2003",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese regulations amend the Marriages (Approved Premises) Regulations 1995 to permit an application for the renewal of approval of premises for the solemnization of marriages at any time during the last twelve months of the approval and within a month of the expiry of the previous approval. In the latter case the expired approval is reinstated until the application is either determined or withdrawn.\nThese regulations impose no costs on business.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/1961/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:13:01.698300+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."
}