{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-births-deaths-and-marriages-scotland-act-1965/section-48",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-births-deaths-and-marriages-scotland-act-1965/section-48.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1965/49",
  "legislation_title": "Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Scotland) Act 1965",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-births-deaths-and-marriages-scotland-act-1965",
  "path": "section/48",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "48",
  "heading": "Decrees of court altering status.",
  "text": "Where a decree altering the status of any person has been granted by any competent court the clerk of court shall, where no appeal has been made against such decree, on the expiration of the time within which such an appeal may be made, or where an appeal has been made against such a decree, on the conclusion of any appellate proceedings, notify the import of such decree in the prescribed form to the Registrar General who shall thereupon cause an appropriate entry to be made—\n(a) where the decree is of divorce or of declarator of nullity of marriage, in the Register of Divorces; and\n(b) in any other case,\nin the Register of Corrections Etc.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words inserted by Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1985 (c. 73, SIF 105), s. 50(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1965/49/section/48",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:57:33.835387+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."
}