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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-births-deaths-and-marriages-regulations-1968/regulation-77",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1968/2049",
  "legislation_title": "The Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages Regulations 1968",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-births-deaths-and-marriages-regulations-1968",
  "path": "regulation/77",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "77",
  "heading": "Correction of marriage entry",
  "text": "Where it appears or is represented to the superintendent registrar or the registrar that there is in a completed entry in a register of marriages in his custody an error to which section 61 of the Marriage Act 1949 relates, he shall send a report to the Registrar General about the alleged error, giving such information as the Registrar General may require, together with a copy of the entry, and shall comply with any instruction which the Registrar General may give for the purpose of verifying the facts of the case and of ascertaining whether the parties or witnesses will be available to witness a correction of the entry.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1968/2049/regulation/77",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T23:16:20.581505+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."
}