The Marriage (Same-sex Couples) and Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2019

Marriage overseas: consular, and armed forces, marriages

13.—(1) A person is entitled, on payment of a fee, to obtain from the Registrar General for Northern Ireland—

(a) a certified copy of any entry in a marriage register book transmitted to the Registrar General under article 6 of the Foreign Marriage Order 1970(1);

(b) a certified copy of any of the following documents transmitted to the Registrar General in accordance with article 7 of that Order—

(i) a certificate of a foreign marriage;

(ii) any translation of such a certificate;

(iii) any certificate produced by a consular officer regarding the accuracy of the translation.

(2) The fee payable under sub-paragraph (1) is the amount equal to the sum of the fees for the time being charged by the Registrar General for Northern Ireland for—

(a) the provision of a document relating to an entry in a marriage registration record, and

(b) a search of the indexes to marriage registration records in the Registrar General’s custody.

(3) A certified copy provided under sub-paragraph (1)(a) is sufficient evidence of the marriage.

(4) A certified copy provided under sub-paragraph (1)(b) of any entry in the register under the Foreign Marriage Act 1892 is sufficient evidence of the formation of a foreign marriage.

(5) In this regulation “foreign marriage” means a marriage solemnized outside the United Kingdom.

(1)

S.I. 1970/1539, made under 1892 c.23 and revoked in relation to England and Wales, and Scotland, by article 17 of S.I. 2014/1110.