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Statutory Instruments
Immigration
Made
7th November 2011
Laid before Parliament
10th November 2011
Coming into force
1st December 2011
The Secretary of State has consulted with the Registrar General, the Registrar General for Scotland and the Registrar General for Northern Ireland in accordance with sections 20(4), 22(2) and 24(2) of the Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc.) Act 2004(1).
The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 19(2)(a), 21(2)(a) and 23(2)(a) of that Act, having regard to the meanings of "prescribed" in sections 22(2) and 24(2), makes the following Regulations.
1.-(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Immigration (Procedure for Marriage) Regulations 2011 and shall come into force on 1st December 2011.
(2) In these Regulations, "the 2004 Act" means the Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc.) Act 2004.
2. The registration districts in England and Wales listed in the Schedule are specified for the purposes of section 19(2)(a) of the 2004 Act.
3. Every registration district in Scotland is prescribed for the purposes of section 21(2)(a) of the 2004 Act.
4. The registrar of every register office in Northern Ireland is prescribed for the purposes of section 23(2)(a) of the 2004 Act.
5. The Immigration (Procedure for Marriage) Regulations 2005(2) are revoked.
Damian Green
Minister of State
Home Office
7th November 2011
Regulation 2
Barking and Dagenham
Barnet
Birmingham
Blackburn with Darwen
Brent
Brighton and Hove
Bristol
Cambridgeshire
Camden
Cardiff
Cardiganshire North
Conwy
Cornwall
Coventry
Croydon
Cumbria
Devon
Ealing
Enfield
Essex
Gloucestershire
Greenwich
Hackney
Hammersmith and Fulham
Hampshire
Haringey
Harrow
Havering
Hertfordshire
Hillingdon
Hounslow
Hull
Islington
Kensington and Chelsea
Kent
Kingston upon Thames
Lambeth
Leeds
Leicester
Lewisham
Lincolnshire
Liverpool
Luton
Manchester
Merton
Middlesbrough
Milton Keynes
Newcastle upon Tyne
Newham
Norfolk
Northamptonshire
Nottingham
Oxfordshire
Pembrokeshire
Peterborough
Plymouth
Powys
Reading
Redbridge
Sheffield
Shropshire
Slough
Southampton
Southwark
Stoke on Trent
Suffolk
Surrey
Swansea
Swindon
Tower Hamlets
Waltham Forest
Wandsworth
Westminster
West Sussex
Wrexham
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
Section 19(2)(a) of the Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc.) Act 2004 provides that where a marriage is to be solemnised in England and Wales, notices under section 27 of the Marriage Act 1949 must be given to the superintendant registrar of a registration district. These Regulations specify the relevant registration districts within England and Wales. A similar provision is made in respect of a marriage to be solemnised in Scotland (by section 21(2)) and Northern Ireland (by section 23(2)) of the 2004 Act and the Regulations prescribe every registration district in both Scotland and Northern Ireland for the purposes of the Act.
These Regulations revoke and replace the Immigration (Procedure for Marriage) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/15). They update the list of registered districts and also reflect the withdrawal of the requirement to seek the Secretary of State's permission to marry following the Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc.) Act 2004 (Remedial) Order 2011(S.I. 2011/1158) by removing the provisions which set out how permission was to be applied for.
A full regulatory impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no impact on the private or voluntary sectors is foreseen.
S.I. 2005/15 as amended by S.I. 2011/1158.
