{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/overseas-marriage-armed-forces-order-2014/article-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/overseas-marriage-armed-forces-order-2014/article-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2014/1108",
  "legislation_title": "The Overseas Marriage (Armed Forces) Order 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/overseas-marriage-armed-forces-order-2014",
  "path": "article/7",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Certificate of Commanding Officer",
  "text": "(1) Before any marriage can be solemnized under this Order, there is to be produced to the authorised person in whose presence the marriage is to be solemnized a certificate signed by or on behalf of the commanding officer notified under article 6 that states that the conditions specified in paragraph 8(2) of Schedule 6 to the Act are met.\n(2) If any information is brought to the attention of the commanding officer that the conditions specified in paragraph 8(2) of Schedule 6 to the Act are not met, the certificate under paragraph (1) shall not be signed until the commanding officer has carried out such inquiries as he sees fit.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 7 in force at 3.6.2014, see art. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/1108/article/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:17:52.541920+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."
}