Marriage Ceremony (Prescribed Words) Act 1996
In section 44(3) of the Marriage Act 1949 (which sets out a declaration and words of contract required to be made and used by the parties in the course of a marriage ceremony in a registered building) for the proviso there shall be substituted—
Those alternatives shall also be available in other cases where the declaration and form of words in section 44(3) are required to be made and used and accordingly— and in the said sections 45(1), 45A(2) and (3) and 46B(3) the words “in the presence of a registrar” shall be omitted.
in sections 45(1) and 45A(2) and (3) of the Marriage Act 1949 (register office marriages and marriages of persons who are house-bound or detained) after “subsection (3)” there shall be inserted “ or (3A) ”;
in section 46B(3) of that Act and section 10(3) of the Marriage (Registrar-General’s Licence) Act 1970 (marriages on approved premises and marriages of seriously ill persons) after “section 44(3)” there shall be inserted “ or (3A) ”;
In section 52 of the Marriage Act 1949 (Welsh translation of declaration and form of words in section 44(3)) for “declaration and form of words”, in both places, there shall be substituted “ declarations and forms of words ”.
This Act may be cited as the Marriage Ceremony (Prescribed Words) Act 1996.
This Act shall come into force on such day as the Secretary of State may appoint by an order made by statutory instrument.
This Act does not extend to Scotland or Northern Ireland.