# The Registration of Marriages Regulations 2015, Regulation 11B: Retention of signed marriage documents and schedules by superintendent registrars


(1) As soon as practicable after a registrar has registered a marriage under section 53D(10)(a) of the Act, the registrar must send the marriage document or marriage schedule to the superintendent registrar in whose district the marriage was solemnized.
(2) A superintendent registrar who receives a marriage document or marriage schedule under paragraph (1) must keep it, together with the records of the superintendent registrar’s office, for at least 5 years beginning with the day on which the superintendent registrar receives it.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/207/regulation/11B (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-marriages-regulations-2015/regulation-11B
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