(a) in the case of a marriage solemnized according to the rites of the Church of England, by the clergyman by whom the marriage is solemnized; ....
(a) the rector, vicar or curate in charge of every church and chapel in which marriages may be solemnized according to the rites of the Church of England (in this Part called 'the incumbent'); ....such number of register books for making entries of marriages in the prescribed form, and such number of forms for making certified copies of those entries, as may be required for the purposes of this Part.
(2) Marriage register books so furnished shall be of durable materials, and the heads of information required to be known and registered in relation to marriages shall be printed on each side of every leaf thereof, and every page of a marriage register book, and every place of entry therein, shall be numbered progressively from the begining to the end of the book, beginning with the number one, and every entry shall be divided from the following entry by a printed line.
(2) Every entry made in a marriage register book by virtue of this section shall be signed by the clergyman, minister or registrar by whom the marriage is solemnized, as the case may be, and by the parties to the marriage and 2 witnesses.
(3) Every entry made in a marriage register book by virtue of this section shall be made in consecutive order from the beginning to the end of each book and, in the case of an entry made otherwise than by a registrar, the number of the entry shall be the same in each duplicate marriage register book.
(a) make and deliver to the Chief Registrar, on forms supplied by the Chief Registrar, a true copy certified by him in the prescribed manner of all entries of marriages made in the marriage register book kept by him during the period of 3 months ending with the last day of the previous month; or(2) The Chief Registrar shall pay or cause to be paid the prescribed fee to every incumbent or minister by whom a certified copy is delivered under subsection (1).
(b) if no marriage has been registered in the book during that period, deliver to the Chief Registrar a certificate to that effect under his hand, on a form supplied by the Chief Registrar.
(3) The certified copies sent to the Chief Registrar under this section and the register books sent to him under section 45(1) and (2) shall be kept at such place or places in such order and such manner as the Chief Registrar, subject to any directions of the Clerk of the Rolls, may think fit.
(a) in the case of a register book kept by an incumbent, shall remain in the custody of the incumbent and be kept by him with the registers of baptisms and burials of the parish in which the marriages registered therein have been solemnized; ....
(2) Any such marginal entry shall be signed by the person by whom the entry is made and shall be attested by the persons in whose presence the entry is required to be made under subsection (1), and the person by whom the entry is made shall add the date when it is made.
(3) Where any such marginal entry is made by a person who is required to register marriages in duplicate under this Part that person shall make the like entry, attested in the like manner, in the duplicate marriage register book.
(4) Any person who makes any such marginal entry aforesaid shall make the like entry in the certified copy of the register book required to be made by him under this Part or, if a certified copy has already been delivered to the Chief Registrar, shall make and deliver to the Chief Registrar a separate certified copy of the original erroneous entry and of the marginal correction made therein.
(2) Any incumbent to whom any marriage register books have been delivered under subsection (1)-
(a) shall, when he next delivers to the Chief Registrar under this Part a certified copy of the entries in the marriage register books of marriages solemnized in the parish church, deliver also a copy of all entries which have been made in the first mentioned marriage register books after the date of the last entry therein of which a certified copy has already been delivered to the Chief Registrar; and
(b) shall, unless the said first mentioned marriage register books are the only register books in use for the parish, forward such of the said books as have not been filled to the Chief Registrar in order that they may be formally closed.
(2) Any person shall be entitled to search the said indexes at any time when the General Registry is open for that purpose, and to have a certified copy of any entry in the said certified copies of marriage register books, on payment to the Chief Registrar of the prescribed fee.
(3) Any certified copy of an entry given in the General Registry shall be signed by or on behalf of the Chief Registrar; and any certified copy of an entry purporting to be so signed shall be received as evidence of the marriage to which it relates without any further or other proof of the entry.
(2) The Treasury may by regulations prescribe any fee which by this Act may be prescribed.
(a) solemnizes a marriage at any other time than between the hours of 7 a.m. and 6 p.m. (not being a marriage by special licence);shall be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction on information to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years, or to a fine, or to both.
(b) solemnizes a marriage according to the rites of the Church of England without banns having been duly published (not being a marriage solemnized on the authority of a special licence or a common licence);
(c) solemnizes a marriage according to the said rites (not being a marriage by special licence) in any place other than a church or other building in which banns may be published;
(d) solemnizes a marriage according to the said rites falsely pretending to be in Holy Orders;
(2) Any person who knowingly and wilfully —
(a) solemnizes a marriage (not being a marriage by special licence), in any place other than —(i) a church or chapel in which marriages may be solemnized according to the rites of the Church of England, or
(4) No prosecution under this section shall be commenced after the expiration of 3 years from the commission of the offence.
(2) Where any person who is required under Part V to make and deliver to the Chief Registrar a certified copy of entries made in the marriage register book kept by him, or a certificate that no entries have been made therein since the date of the last certified copy, refuses to deliver any such copy or certificate, or fails to deliver any such copy or certificate during any month in which he is required to do so, he shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £2,500. ....
'banns' means banns of matrimony;
'clergyman' means a clerk in Holy Orders of the Church of England, and includes a clerk in Holy Orders of the Church in Wales or the Church of Ireland;
'common licence' has the meaning assigned to it by section 5;
'Deemster's licence' means a licence under Part IV;
'marriage notice book' has the meaning assigned to it by section 20(4);
'parish' means an ecclesiastical parish and includes a parochial district;
'prescribed' means prescribed by regulations made under section 51;
'public chapel' means a chapel licensed by the Bishop under section 14(1) for the solemnization of marriages;
'registered building' means a building registered under section 29;
'registrar' means a registrar of marriages;
'registration district' means a registration district for the purpose of the Civil Registration Act 1984;
'special licence' has the meaning assigned to it by section 5.
| Mother | Father |
| Adoptive mother or former adoptive mother | Adoptive father or former adoptive father |
| Daughter | Son |
| Adoptive daughter or former adoptive daughter | Adoptive son or former adoptive son |
| Father's mother | Father's father |
| Mother's mother | Mother's father |
| Son's daughter | Son's son |
| Daughter's daughter | Daughter's son |
| Sister | Brother |
| Wife's mother | Husband's father |
| Wife's daughter | Husband's son |
| Father's wife | Mother's husband |
| Son's wife | Daughter's husband |
| Father's father's wife | Father's mother's husband |
| Mother's father's wife | Mother's mother's husband |
| Wife's father's mother | Husband's father's father |
| Wife's mother's mother | Husband's mother's father |
| Wife's son's daughter | Husband's son's son |
| Wife's daughter's daughter | Husband's daughter's son |
| Son's son's wife | Son's daughter's husband |
| Daughter's son's wife | Daughter's daughter's husband |
| Father's sister | Father's brother |
| Mother's sister | Mother's brother |
| Brother's daughter | Brother's son |
| Sister's daughter | Sister's son |