Statutory Instrument 1997 No. 2349 (S.158)

The Marriage (Prescription of Forms) (Scotland) Regulations 1997

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Forms etc. for use in connection with preliminaries to and registration of marriage
     3. The notice prescribed for the purposes of section 3(1) shall be in the form set out in Schedule 1.

     4. The declaration prescribed for the purposes of section 3(1)(d) shall be in the form set out in Schedule 2.

     5. The prescribed particulars to be extracted from a marriage notice or an approved certificate and entered in the marriage notice book for the purposes of section 4(1) shall be-

(a) the surname and name;

(b) the address;

(c) the marital status;

(d) the date of birth; and

(e) the proposed date of the marriage,

of the person who has submitted the notice or approved certificate.

     6. The Marriage Schedule prescribed for the purposes of section 6(1) shall be in the form set out in Schedule 3.

     7. The certificate prescribed for the purposes of section 7(2) shall be in the form set out in Schedule 4.

     8. The notices prescribed for the purposes of section 16(1) and (2) shall be in the forms set out in Schedules 5 and 6 respectively.

Revocation
     9. The following Regulations are hereby revoked so far as still in force:-

(a) the Marriage (Prescription of Forms) (Scotland) Regulations 1977[2];

(b) the Marriage (Prescription of Forms) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1986[3];

(c) the Marriage (Prescription of Forms) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 1986[4];

(d) the Marriage (Prescription of Forms) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1995[5].

James Meldrum
Registrar General for Scotland

New Registrar House, Edinburgh
22nd September 1997



Approved by the Secretary of State


Henry B McLeish
Minister of State, Scottish Office

St Andrew's House, Edinburgh
24th September 1997