{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/protection-of-freedoms-act-2012/section-114",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/protection-of-freedoms-act-2012/section-114.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2012/9",
  "legislation_title": "Protection of Freedoms Act 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/protection-of-freedoms-act-2012",
  "path": "section/114",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "114",
  "heading": "Removal of restrictions on times for marriage or civil partnership",
  "text": "(1) In the Marriage Act 1949—\n(a) omit section 4 (solemnization of marriages to take place at any time between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m.), and\n(b) omit section 75(1)(a) (offence of solemnizing a marriage outside the permitted hours).\n(2) In section 16(4) of the Marriage (Registrar General's Licence) Act 1970 (disapplication of certain provisions of the Act of 1949) for “sections 75(1)(a) and” substitute “ section ”.\n(3) In section 17(2) of the Civil Partnership Act 2004 (registration as civil partners under the standard procedure to take place on any day in the applicable period between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m.)—\n(a) for “on any day in” substitute “ at any time during ”, and\n(b) omit “between 8 o'clock in the morning and 6 o'clock in the evening”.\n(4) Omit section 31(2)(ab) of that Act (offence of officiating at the signing of a civil partnership schedule outside the permitted hours).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 114 in force at 1.10.2012 by S.I. 2012/2234, art. 3(m)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2012/9/section/114",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:08:55.374488+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."
}