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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/reporting-of-suspicious-marriages-and-registration-of-marriages-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2000/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2000/3164",
  "legislation_title": "The Reporting of Suspicious Marriages and Registration of Marriages (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/reporting-of-suspicious-marriages-and-registration-of-marriages-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2000",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations set out the procedure for reporting certain marriages to the Secretary of State where it is suspected that the marriage is to be or has been entered into for immigration purposes.\nThey also amend the Marriage (Authorised Persons) Regulations 1952, the Registration of Marriages Regulations 1986 (“the principal Regulations”) and the Registration of Marriages (Welsh Language) Regulations 1999 (“the Welsh Regulations”) respectively to reflect amendments made to the Marriage Act 1949 by the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999. In particular, they remove references to marriage by certificate and licence and omit the relevant forms for this. The Regulations also substitute new forms 1 and 1A for marriage by certificate and amend the form of instructions (form 12 in the principal Regulations and form 8 in the Welsh Regulations).\nThey also insert into the principal Regulations a new regulation which sets out the procedure, where there are exceptional circumstances, for making an application to the Registrar General to reduce the 15 day waiting period imposed under section 31 of the Marriage Act 1949, as amended by the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999, for all marriages which are to be solemnized on the authority of certificates issued by a superintendent registrar and they insert a new form 8A into Schedule 1 to those Regulations and the Welsh Regulations for that purpose.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/3164/note",
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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."
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