Regulation 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation

These Regulations may be cited as the Registration of Marriages (Welsh Language) Regulations 1999 and shall come into operation on [X May 1999].

In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, “the principal Regulations” means the Registration of Marriages Regulations 1986^f1 and any expression in these Regulations which is also used in the principal Regulations has the same meaning as in those Regulations.