text: **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 marriage has been solemnized according to the 
  rites of the Church of England in a church or chapel 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 following information in relation to that 
  marriage in a register of marriage services provided 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 whose 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. 