Marriage (Scotland) Act 1977
Marriage (Scotland) Act 1977 (1977 c. 15)
- Marriage (Scotland) Act 1977 (1977 c. 15)
- Minimum age for marriage
- 1 Minimum age for marriage.
- Forbidden degrees
- 2 Marriage of related persons.
- Preliminaries to regular marriage
- 3 Notice of intention to marry.
- 3A. Additional information if party not relevant national
- 3B. Additional evidence if party not relevant national
- 3C. Declaration to accompany information and evidence
- 3D. Rejection of false information or evidence
- 3E. Marriage notice: treated as not given
- 3F. Referral of proposed marriage to Secretary of State
- 4 Marriage notice book and list of intended marriages.
- 5 Objections to marriage.
- 6 The Marriage Schedule.
- 6A. Marriage notice: false information or evidence
- 7 Marriage outside Scotland where a party resides in Scotland.
- Persons who may solemnise marriage
- 8 Persons who may solemnise marriage.
- Religious or belief marriages
- 9 Registration of nominated persons as celebrants.
- 10 Removal of celebrant’s name from register.
- 11 Alterations to register maintained under s. 9.
- 12 Temporary authorisation of celebrants.
- 13 Preliminaries to solemnisation of marriages by approved celebrants .
- 14 Form of ceremony to be used by approved celebrant.
- 15 Registration of religious or belief marriages .
- 16 Registrar’s power to require delivery of Marriage Schedule.
- Civil marriages
- 17 Appointment of authorised registrars.
- 18 Places at which civil marriages may be solemnised.
- 18A Approved places
- 19 Marriage ceremony and registration of marriage.
- 20 Second marriage ceremony.
- Void marriages
- 20A Grounds on which marriage void
- Irregular marriages
- 21 Registration of irregular marriages.
- General
- 22 Interpreters at marriage ceremony.
- 23 Cancellation of entry in register of marriages.
- 23A Validity of registered marriage.
- 24 Offences.
- 24A Form, and manner of attestation, of documents
- 25 Regulations.
- 26 Interpretation.
- 27 Transitional and saving provisions.
- 28 Consequential amendments and repeals.
- 29 Short title, commencement and extent.
- SCHEDULES
- SCHEDULE 1 DEGREES OF RELATIONSHIP
- SCHEDULE 1A Modifications if proposed marriage referred under section 3F
- Introduction
- No Marriage Schedule to be completed until decision about investigation etc.
- Marriage to be investigated: extension of 28 day period to 70 days
- Effect of reducing statutory period
- SCHEDULE 2 Consequential Amendments of Other Enactments
- The Foreign Marriage Act 1892 (c. 23)
- The Marriage with Foreigners Act 1906 (c. 40)
- The Marriage Act 1949 (c. 76)
- The Marriage (Scotland) Act 1956 (c. 70)
- The Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Scotland) Act 1965 (c. 49)
- SCHEDULE 3 Repeals
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