{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-marriages-welsh-language-regulations-1999/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-marriages-welsh-language-regulations-1999/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/1621",
  "legislation_title": "The Registration of Marriages (Welsh Language) Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-marriages-welsh-language-regulations-1999",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS, DEATHS, MARRIAGES, ETC\nENGLAND AND WALES\nMade 9th June 1999\nComing into force 1st July 1999\nThe Registrar General, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 27(1) and (2), 31(2) and (5), 32(2) and (4) and 74(b) of the Marriage Act 1949 and section 20(a) of the Registration Service Act 1953 as extended by section 26(3) of the Welsh Language Act 1993 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, with the approval of the Chancellor of the Exchequer hereby makes the following Regulations:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1949 c. 76. See section 78 for definition of “prescribed”."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1953 c. 37."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1993 c. 38."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "The approval of the Chancellor of Exchequer is required by section 74 of the Marriage Act 1949, as amended by Article 5(1) and paragraph 11 of Schedule 2 to the Transfer of Functions (Registration and Statistics) Order 1996 (S.I. 1996/273)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/1621/introduction",
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  },
  "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."
}