{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-marriages-regulations-2015/regulation-11J",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2015/207",
  "legislation_title": "The Registration of Marriages Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-marriages-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/11J",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "11J",
  "heading": "Correction of marriage document",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies where a marriage is to be solemnized—\n(a) after the publication of banns,\n(b) on the authority of a special licence, or\n(c) on the authority of a common licence.\n(2) Where it appears to the clergyman by whom the marriage is to be solemnized, before the marriage is solemnized, that the marriage document for the marriage requires correction, the clergyman may make amendments to the marriage document to correct it, so far as it appears to require correction.\n(3) But a marriage document may only be corrected—\n(a) in a manner permitted by this regulation, and\n(b) before the marriage is solemnized.\n(4) For the purposes of this regulation, a marriage document requires correction so far as—\n(a) any particulars (other than signatures) are missing from any of spaces 1 to 6, 8, 10 and 11 on the marriage document form,\n(b) any particulars in spaces 1 to 7 on the form have been incorrectly entered or are otherwise inaccurate,\n(c) particulars are included, in relation to a party, in space 7 (particulars of parents or step-parents) on the form about any person whose particulars the party does not wish the marriage document to include, or\n(d) there are no particulars in that space, in relation to a party, about a parent or step-parent of that party whose particulars the party wishes the marriage document to include, and the party has provided the required particulars of that parent or step-parent to the clergyman by whom the marriage is to be solemnized.\n(5) So far as a marriage document appears to require correction for the reason in paragraph (4)(b), it may only be amended in such a way that the incorrectly entered or inaccurate particulars remain legible.\n(6) So far as a marriage document appears to require correction for the reason in paragraph (4)(d), it may only be corrected—\n(a) by entering the particulars of the parent or step-parent provided by the party in space 7 on the marriage document form as required by regulation 10C(2) or (3) (as the case may be) in relation to the entering of particulars of a parent or step-parent by a person required to issue a marriage document under section 21A(2) of the Act, and\n(b) if the result would be that, when the marriage is solemnized, space 7 in the column relating to that party on the form contains particulars of no more than four individuals in total.\n(7) No amendment is permitted to the particulars in space 4 (condition of the parties) on the marriage document form except an amendment which results in particulars being entered in that space as required by regulation 10B in relation to the entering of particulars in that space by a person required to issue a marriage document under section 21A(2) of the Act.\n(8) So far as a marriage document issued in Wales appears to require correction for the reason in paragraph (4)(a) or (b)—\n(a) an amendment made to add missing particulars which were required to be entered in English, or to correct incorrectly entered or inaccurate particulars which were entered or required to be entered in English, may only be made in English, and\n(b) an amendment made to add missing particulars which were required to be entered in Welsh, or to correct incorrectly entered or inaccurate particulars which were entered or required to be entered in Welsh, may only be made in Welsh.\n(9) Where the marriage document was issued in Wales, contains particulars entered in Welsh and appears to require correction for the reason in paragraph (4)(d), any necessary amendment may only be made by adding particulars in English and Welsh.\n(10) For the purposes of paragraph (4)(b), particulars in space 7 on a marriage document form—\n(a) are not inaccurate by reason only of the fact that any particular person either is or is not included as a parent or step-parent of the party, but\n(b) are inaccurate so far as they fail to include—\n(i) the word “deceased” in relation to a parent or step-parent who has died, or\n(ii) the word “retired” in relation to a parent or step-parent who has retired from a former occupation stated in the particulars relating to that parent or step-parent.\n(11) For the purposes of paragraph (4)(b), particulars in space 4 on a marriage document form are not inaccurate so far as they describe a party as “Single” as a result of that word having been entered in relation to that party in that space at that party’s request in accordance with these Regulations.\n(12) For the purposes of paragraph (4)(d), the “required particulars” of a parent or step-parent are the parent’s or step-parent’s—\n(a) name and surname, and\n(b) current occupation or, if the parent or step-parent has no current occupation or has died, former occupation (if any).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pts. 2A-2C inserted (4.5.2021) by The Registration of Marriages (Amendment) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/412), regs. 1(2), 10"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}