{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-marriages-amendment-regulations-2007/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-marriages-amendment-regulations-2007/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2007/2164",
  "legislation_title": "The Registration of Marriages (Amendment) Regulations 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-marriages-amendment-regulations-2007",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Registration of Marriages Regulations 1986",
  "text": "(1) The Registration of Marriages Regulations 1986 are amended as follows.\n(2) After regulation 11(4) insert—\n“(4A) In column 7, if either party to the marriage wishes to record a step-father’s name instead of the father’s name, the registrar shall enter the word “step-father” after the surname, provided he is or has been married to the mother.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1986/1442 as amended by S.I. 1995/744, S.I. 1997/2204, S.I. 2000/3164, S.I. 2005/155 and S.I. 2005/3177."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/2164/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:47:14.910390+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."
}