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(a)  indicates the descriptions of information required by each of sub-paragraphs (a) to (h) of 
regulation 3(2) in relation to the marriage, and 
(b)  provides corresponding spaces for recording informa tion required by each of those sub-
paragraphs in relation to the marriage. 
(6)  A register of marriage services provided under para graph (1) by a parochial church council 
belongs to that parochial church council. 
Duty to record information about marriages solemnized according to the rites of the Church 
of England or Church in Wales 
3. —(1) Paragraphs (2), (3) and (4) apply where a marr iage has been solemnized according to the 
rites of the Church of England in a church or chape l in which banns of matrimony may be 
published. 
(2)  As soon as practicable after the marriage has been solemnized, the clergyman by whom the 
marriage was solemnized must make a record of the f ollowing information in relation to that 
marriage in a register of marriage services provide d to the church or chapel under regulation 
2(1)— 
(a)  the date and place of the marriage; 
(b)  the name and surname of each party; 
(c)  the date of birth of each party; 
(d)  the occupation (if any) of each party; 
(e)  the address of each party at the time of the marriage; 
(f)  the names and surnames of each party’s parents, so far as those names and surnames are 
known to the clergyman who solemnized the marriage; 
(g)  the name and surname of each of the witnesses in wh ose presence the marriage was 
solemnized; 
(h)  the name and surname of the clergyman by whom the marriage was solemnized. 
(3)  The clergyman must record the information required by paragraph (2) in English, and may 
also record information required by that paragraph in Welsh where the church or chapel is situated 
in Wales. 
(4)  After making a record under paragraph (2) the clergyman must sign it. 
(5)  This regulation does not apply in relation to a marriage solemnized before 4th May 2021. 
Requirements about the keeping of registers of marriage services 
4. —(1) The rector, vicar or curate in charge of a chu rch or chapel to which a register of marriage 
services has been provided under regulation 2(1) must— 
(a)  ensure that the register is kept in that church or chapel, and 
(b)  do everything that is reasonably practicable to ensure that the register is protected against 
theft, loss or damage. 
(2)  Where there is no rector, vicar or curate in charge of a church or chapel to which a register of 
marriage services has been provided under regulatio n 2(1), the obligations under paragraph (1) in 
respect of that register fall on the churchwardens of the parish in which the church or chapel is 
situated. 
 
 
Given under my hand on 29th April 2021 
 
 Abi Tierney 
 Registrar General