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Power to make marriage regulations.
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21.—(1) Her Majesty the Queen in Council may make regulations (in this Act referred to as the marriage regulations)—
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(a) Prohibiting or restricting the exercise by marriage officers of their powers under this Act in cases where the exercise of those powers appears to Her Majesty to be inconsistent with international law or the comity of nations, or in places where sufficient facilities appear to Her Majesty to exist without the exercise of those powers, for the solemnization of marriages to which a British subject is a party; and
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(b) Determining what offices, chapels, or other places are, for the purposes of marriage under this Act, to be deemed to be part of the official house or the office of a marriage officer; and
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(c) Modifying in special cases or classes of cases the requirements of this Act as to residence and notice, so far as such modification appears to Her Majesty to be consistent with the observance of due precautions against clandestine marriages; and
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(d) Prescribing the forms to be used under this Act; and
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(e) Adapting this Act to marriages on board one of Her Majesty’s ships; and to marriages by or before a governor, high commissioner, resident, or other officer, and authorizing the appointment of a person to act under this Act in the place of a high commissioner or resident; and
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(f) Determining who is to be the marriage officer for the purpose of a marriage in the official house of a British ambassador, or on board one of Her Majesty’s ships, whether such officer is described in the regulations or named in pursuance thereof, a authorizing such officer to act without any marriage warrant; and
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(g) Determining the conditions under which and the made in which marriages solemnized in accordance with the local law of a foreign country may be registered under this Act; and
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(h) Making such provisions as seem necessary or proper in carrying into effect this Act or any marriage regulations; and
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(i) Varying or revoking any marraige regulations previous made.
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(2) All regulations purporting to be made in pursuance this section may be made either generally or with reference any particular case or class of cases, and shall be published under the authority of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, and laid before both Houses of Parliament, and deemed to be within the powers of this Act, and shall while in force have effect as if enacted by this Act.
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(3) Any marriage regulations which dispense for any reason whether residence out of the district or otherwise, with the requirements of this Act as to residence and notice, may require as a condition or consequence of the dispensation, the production of such notice, certificate, or document, and the taking of such oath, and may authorize the publication or grant of such notice certificate, or document, and the charge of such fees as may be prescribed by the regulations; and the provisions of this Act including those enacting punishments with reference to any false notice or oath, shall apply as if the said notice, certificate or document were a notice, and such oath were an oath, within the meaning of those provisions.
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