The Registrar General may make Regulations prescribing anything which by the Marriage Act 1949 is required to be prescribed. (Prescribed is defined in section 78 of the Act).

The Registrar General with the approval of the Secretary of State may make Regulations prescribing anything which by the Marriage Act 1949 is required to be prescribed, and may make Regulations under the provisions of Part 2, Chapter 1 of the Civil Partnership Act 2004 (with some exceptions, not relevant here). The function of approving Regulations was transferred to the Secretary of State for the Home Department by articles 3(1) and 5(1) and paragraphs 5(e) and 14(d) of Schedule 1 to the Transfer of Functions (Registration) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/678).

1949 c. 76. Section 27A was inserted by paragraph 6 of Schedule 1 to the Marriage Act 1983 (c. 32) and amended by paragraph 9 of Schedule 14 to the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 (c. 33) and paragraph 5 of Schedule 7 to the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 (c. 30). It is also amended by section 75(3)(a) of the Victims and Prisoners Act 2024 (c. 21), not yet in force. Section 74 was amended by paragraph 19 of Schedule 15 to the Immigration Act 2016 (c. 19), paragraph 5(1)(d) of Schedule 2 to S.I. 2008/678 and article 12 of S.I. 2009/2821. There are other amendments to sections 27A and 74 not relevant to these Regulations.

2004 c. 33. Section 19 is amended by section 76(7) of the Victims and Prisoners Act 2024, not yet in force. Section 36 was amended by Schedule 2, paragraph 14(d) to S.I. 2008/678. There are other amendments to sections 19 and 36 not relevant to these Regulations.

1993 c. 38.