Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.-(1) These regulations may be cited as the Marriage (Authorised Persons) Amendment Regulations 1986 and shall come into operation on 1st October 1986.

(2) In these regulations "the principal regulations" means the Marriage (Authorised Persons) Regulations 1952(2).

Amendment of regulation 16 of the principal regulations

2. In regulation 16 of the principal regulations (entry relating to age) the words from "or, failing any such information," to the end of the regulation shall be omitted.

Amendment of regulation 17 of the principal regulations

3. In regulation 17 of the principal regulations (entry relating to marital condition)-

(a)after sub-paragraph (i) of paragraph (d)(3) there shall be inserted the following sub-paragraph-

"(iA)if the previous marriage was annulled, he shall enter the words "Previously married at -� on the -� Marriage annulled on the -�", together with the particulars of the place and date of the previous marriage and the date of its annulment; or";

(b)the words "and no further entry shall be made in column 4" shall be omitted in, and shall be inserted after, paragraph (d).

EXPLANATORY NOTE

These regulations make minor amendments to provisions of the Marriage (Authorised Persons) Regulations 1952 governing the completion of entries in marriage registers by authorised persons (authorised persons have responsibilities at religious marriages, other than those of the Church of England, the Quakers and the Jews, which are not attended by a registrar). Regulation 2 amends regulation 16 which is concerned with the completion of the entry relating to the age of the parties to a marriage and regulation 3 amends regulation 17, in particular to provide for the manner in which the marital condition is to be entered where the parties have previously been through a form of marriage with each other and that marriage was annulled, neither party having since married a third person.