The Same Sex Marriage (Prescribed Bodies) (Scotland) Regulations 2014

Made: 11th November 2014

Laid before the Scottish Parliament: 13th November 2014

Coming into force: 16th December 2014

In accordance with section 8(1C)(a)[^f00002] of the Marriage (Scotland) Act 1977 the bodies prescribed in regulation 2 have requested the Scottish Ministers to prescribe them.

Citation and commencement

1

These Regulations may be cited as the Same Sex Marriage (Prescribed Bodies) (Scotland) Regulations 2014 and come into force on 16th December 2014.

Prescribed bodies

2

The bodies prescribed for the purposes of section 8(1B)(a)(i) of the Marriage (Scotland) Act 1977 are listed in the Schedule to these Regulations.

SCHEDULE

• Humanist Society Scotland

• The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)

• The Scottish Unitarian Association

Signed

ALEX NEIL — A member of the Scottish Government — 11th November 2014

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

These Regulations prescribe the religious or belief bodies whose ministers, clergymen, pastors, priests or other celebrants are entitled to solemnise same sex marriage without the need to be registered as approved celebrants or authorised to solemnise marriages between persons of the same sex.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1977 c.15; section 8(1B) was inserted by the Marriage and Civil Partnership (Scotland) Act 2014 (asp 5) (“the 2014 Act”) section 12(2)(b).

[^f00002]: Section 8(1C)(a) was inserted by section 12 of the 2014 Act.

Editorial notes

[^key-5d6f8e16c70de7021efbe78663840d19]: Reg. 1 in force at 16.12.2014, see reg. 1

[^key-2e0093c42c3dd3da725176bd67280eeb]: Reg. 2 in force at 16.12.2014, see reg. 1

[^key-7081fc5a89d587b7a724b85edacd6494]: Words in sch. inserted (14.2.2017) by The Civil Partnership, Marriage Between Persons of Different Sexes and Same Sex Marriage (Prescribed Bodies) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2016 (S.S.I. 2016/427), regs. 1, 4