{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-births-deaths-and-marriages-special-provisions-act-1957/section-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-births-deaths-and-marriages-special-provisions-act-1957/section-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Eliz2/5-6/58",
  "legislation_title": "Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Special Provisions) Act 1957",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-births-deaths-and-marriages-special-provisions-act-1957",
  "path": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Records of deaths, births and marriages among armed forces and service civilians and their families overseas.",
  "text": "(1) Her Majesty may by Order in Council provide for the keeping of records of deaths and births occurring, marriages entered into and civil partnerships formed, outside the United Kingdom among ...—\n(a) members of Her Majesty’s naval, military or air forces, or\n(b) civilians subject to service discipline.\n(2) An Order in Council under this section may provide—\n(a) for the transmission of certified copies of any such records to the Registrar General for England and Wales, and\n(b) for the transmission by the said Registrar General in such cases as may be specified in the Order of extracts from such certified copies to the Registrar General of Births, Deaths and Marriages in Scotland or the Registrar General for Northern Ireland.\n(3) An entry in a record kept under an Order in Council under this section which relates to a civilian subject to service discipline shall not be questioned on the ground that that person did not fall within any particular description of such civilians contained in the Order.\n(4) After the commencement of this Act no further entry shall be made under the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Army) Act 1879 (which, as amended under the Air Force (Constitution) Act 1917, provides for the recording of deaths, births and marriages of members of Her Majesty’s military or air forces or their families overseas), in any register kept under that Act and an Order in Council under this section may provide for the transmission of any such registers to the Registrar General for England and Wales and for the transmission by him of certified copies of entries in such registers to the Registrar General of Births, Deaths and Marriages in Scotland or the Registrar General for Northern Ireland.\n(6) In this section “ civilian subject to service discipline ” has the same meaning as in the Armed Forces Act 2006.\n(6) In this section—\n“civilian subject to service discipline” has the same meaning as in the Armed Forces Act 2006, and\n“marriages” includes a marriage resulting from—\n(a)the conversion of a civil partnership into a marriage under section 9 of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 and regulations made under that section,\n(b)the changing of a civil partnership formed under Part 3 of the Civil Partnership Act 2004 into a marriage under any order made under section 104 of the Scotland Act 1998 in consequence of the Marriage and Civil Partnership (Scotland) Act 2014.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 1(1) substituted (15.4.2005 for specified purposes, 5.12.2005 in so far as not already in force) by Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c. 33), s. 263(10)(b), Sch. 27 para. 21; S.I. 2005/1112, art. 2, Sch. 1; S.I. 2005/3175, art. 2(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 1(1) substituted (E.W.S.) (10.12.2014 for E.W., 16.12.2014 for S.) by The Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 (Consequential and Contrary Provisions and Scotland) and Marriage and Civil Partnership (Scotland) Act 2014 (Consequential Provisions) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/3168), art. 1(2)(3), Sch. para. 4(2)(a); and extended to N.I. (N.I.) (13.1.2020) by The Marriage (Same-sex Couples) and Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1514), regs. 1(2), 149(d)(i) (with regs. 6-9)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 1(1) repealed (28.3.2009 for specified purposes and 31.10.2009 in so far as not already in force) by Armed Forces Act 2006 (c. 52), s. 383(2), Sch. 16 para. 39(2)(a), Sch. 17; S.I. 2009/812, art. 3(a)(b) (with transitional provisions in S.I. 2009/1059); S.I. 2009/1167, art. 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 1(1)(b) substituted (28.3.2009 for specified purposes and 31.10.2009 in so far as not already in force) by Armed Forces Act 2006 (c. 52), s. 383(2), Sch. 16 para. 39(2)(b); S.I. 2009/812, art. 3(a)(b) (with transitional provisions in S.I. 2009/1059); S.I. 2009/1167, art. 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 1(3) substituted (28.3.2009 for specified purposes and 31.10.2009 in so far as not already in force) by Armed Forces Act 2006 (c. 52), s. 383(2), Sch. 16 para. 39(3)(a); S.I. 2009/812, art. 3(a)(b) (with transitional provisions in S.I. 2009/1059); S.I. 2009/1167, art. 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in s. 1(3) substituted (28.3.2009 for specified purposes and 31.10.2009 in so far as not already in force) by Armed Forces Act 2006 (c. 52), s. 383(2), Sch. 16 para. 39(3)(b); S.I. 2009/812, art. 3(a)(b) (with transitional provisions in S.I. 2009/1059); S.I. 2009/1167, art. 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "S. 1(6) substituted (E.W.S.) (10.12.2014 for E.W., 16.12.2014 for S.) by The Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 (Consequential and Contrary Provisions and Scotland) and Marriage and Civil Partnership (Scotland) Act 2014 (Consequential Provisions) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/3168), art. 1(2)(3), Sch. para. 4(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "S. 1(6) substituted for s. 1(5) (28.3.2009 for specified purposes and 31.10.2009 in so far as not already in force) by Armed Forces Act 2006 (c. 52), s. 383(2), Sch. 16 para. 39(4); S.I. 2009/812, art. 3(a)(b) (with transitional provisions in S.I. 2009/1059); S.I. 2009/1167, art. 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1879 c. 8."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1917 c. 51."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/5-6/58/section/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:13:32.693885+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."
}