text: **Requirements about the keeping of registers of marriage services**
  
  **4.**—(1) The rector, vicar or curate in charge of a church 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 regulation 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. 