9.—(1) Regulation 6(1) and (2) do not apply to the common law concerning—
(a)the right of a person who marries, or is married to, the King Regnant, to the title of Queen,
(b)the right of a person who marries, or is married to, the Prince of Wales, to the title of Princess of Wales, or
(c)the acquisition of a right to, or interest in, a peerage, and all titles, rights, offices, privileges and precedence attaching to it, by a person who marries or who is married to a peer holding that peerage.
(2) Regulation 6(1) and (2) do not apply to EU instruments.
(3) Regulations 6(1) and (2) and 7(1) to (3) do not apply to a provision listed in paragraph 5 of Schedule 2 to the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 (Consequential and Contrary Provisions and Scotland) Order 2014(1), so far as the provision forms part of the law of Northern Ireland.
Commencement Information
I1Reg. 9 in force at 13.1.2020, see reg. 1(2)