The Same Sex Marriage (Prescribed Bodies) (Scotland) Regulations 2014

JurisdictionScotland

2014No. 305

MARRIAGE

The Same Sex Marriage (Prescribed Bodies) (Scotland) Regulations 2014

11thNovember2014

13thNovember2014

16thDecember2014

The Scottish Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 8(1B)(a)(i) of the Marriage (Scotland) Act 1977( 1) and all other powers enabling them to do so.

In accordance with section 8(1C)(a)( 2) of the Marriage (Scotland) Act 1977 the bodies prescribed in regulation 2 have requested the Scottish Ministers to prescribe them.

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Same Sex Marriage (Prescribed Bodies) (Scotland) Regulations 2014 and come into force on 16th December 2014.

Prescribed bodies

2. The bodies prescribed for the purposes of section 8(1B)(a)(i) of the Marriage (Scotland) Act 1977 are listed in the Schedule to these Regulations.

ALEX NEIL

A member of the Scottish Government

St Andrew's House,

Edinburgh

11th November 2014

SCHEDULE

Regulation 2

The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)

The Scottish Unitarian Association

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations prescribe the religious or belief bodies whose ministers, clergymen, pastors, priests or other celebrants are entitled to solemnise same sex marriage without the need to be registered as approved celebrants or authorised to solemnise marriages between persons of the same sex.

(1) 1977 c.15; section 8(1B) was inserted by the Marriage and Civil Partnership (Scotland) Act 2014 (asp 5)("the 2014 Act") section 12(2)(b).

(2) Section 8(1C)(a) was inserted by section 12 of the 2014 Act.

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