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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/same-sex-marriage-prescribed-bodies-scotland-regulations-2014/note",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2014/305",
  "legislation_title": "The Same Sex Marriage (Prescribed Bodies) (Scotland) Regulations 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/same-sex-marriage-prescribed-bodies-scotland-regulations-2014",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations prescribe the religious or belief bodies whose ministers, clergymen, pastors, priests or other celebrants are entitled to solemnise same sex marriage without the need to be registered as approved celebrants or authorised to solemnise marriages between persons of the same sex.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2014/305/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:32:58.971187+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."
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