LegalizeThe Marriage Between Persons of Different Sexes (Prescribed Bodies) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2023
Made: 19th September 2023
Laid before the Scottish Parliament: 21st September 2023
Coming into force: 1st December 2023
In accordance with section 8(1A)(a)[^f00002] of the Marriage (Scotland) Act 1977 the body prescribed in regulation 2 has requested the Scottish Ministers to prescribe it.
Citation and commencement
1
These Regulations may be cited as the Marriage Between Persons of Different Sexes (Prescribed Bodies) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2023 and come into force on 1 December 2023.
Amendment of the Marriage Between Persons of Different Sexes (Prescribed Bodies) (Scotland) Regulations 2014
2
In the schedule of the Marriage Between Persons of Different Sexes (Prescribed Bodies) (Scotland) Regulations 2014[^f00003], after the entry relating to the Free Church of Scotland, insert—
The Free Church of Scotland (Continuing)
Signed
SIOBHIAN BROWN — Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers — 19th September 2023
Explanatory note
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
EXPLANATORY NOTE
These Regulations add the Free Church of Scotland (Continuing) to the list of religious or belief bodies whose celebrants or recognised individuals are authorised to solemnise marriages between persons of different sexes in Scotland without being individually authorised for that purpose by the Registrar General of Births, Deaths and Marriages for Scotland.
Footnotes
[^f00001]: 1977 c. 15. Section 8(1) was relevantly amended by section 22(1)(b) of the Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1980 (c. 55), and by section 12(2)(a) of the Marriage and Civil Partnership (Scotland) Act 2014 (asp 5) (“the 2014 Act”). The functions conferred on the Secretary of State by section 8(1)(a)(ii) were transferred to the Scottish Ministers by section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998 (c. 46).
[^f00002]: Section 8(1A) was inserted by section 12(2)(b) of the 2014 Act.
[^f00003]: S.S.I. 2014/304, as amended by S.S.I. 2016/427.
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