{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-marriages-regulations-2015/regulation-9C",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-marriages-regulations-2015/regulation-9C.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2015/207",
  "legislation_title": "The Registration of Marriages Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-marriages-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/9C",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "9C",
  "heading": "Prescribed content of marriage schedule: particulars about the parties’ parents",
  "text": "(1) A superintendent registrar required to issue a marriage schedule under section 31(2) of the Act must enter the particulars required in space 7 (particulars of parents) on form 11A, 11A(w), 11B or 11B(w) (as the case may be) in accordance with this regulation in relation to each party to the proposed marriage.\n(2) Where a party provides the superintendent registrar with the required particulars of a parent of that party for inclusion in the marriage schedule, the superintendent registrar must—\n(a) enter those particulars in the column relating to that party,\n(b) if informed by the party that the parent has died, enter the word “deceased” after the parent’s surname, and\n(c) if provided with the parent’s former occupation and informed by the party that the parent has or had retired from that occupation, enter the word “retired” after that occupation.\n(3) Subject to paragraph (4), where a party provides the superintendent registrar with the required particulars of a step-parent of that party for inclusion in the marriage schedule, the superintendent registrar must—\n(a) enter those particulars in the column relating to that party,\n(b) enter the word “step-parent” after the step-parent’s surname,\n(c) if informed by the party that the step-parent has died, enter the word “deceased” after the word “step-parent”, and\n(d) if provided with the step-parent’s former occupation and informed by the party that the step-parent has or had retired from that occupation, enter the word “retired” after that occupation.\n(4) The superintendent registrar must not enter any particulars of any step-parent of a party under paragraph (3) if entering all the required particulars of step-parents provided by the party for inclusion in the marriage schedule would result in particulars of more than four individuals in total being entered in space 7 in relation to that party (including particulars of any parent of the party).\n(5) The superintendent registrar must not enter any particulars of a party’s parents or step-parents other than the particulars (if any) which this regulation requires the superintendent registrar to enter.\n(6) Where the superintendent registrar is not required by this regulation to enter any particulars at all in space 7 in relation to a party, the superintendent registrar must draw a line in ink, or cause a line to be printed, through that space in the column relating to that party.\n(7) In this regulation, “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": "Regs. 9A-9C inserted (19.4.2021) by The Registration of Marriages (Amendment) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/412), regs. 1(2)(3)(e), 5"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/207/regulation/9C",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:48:07.021407+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."
}