
2011 No. 2678
Immigration
The Immigration (Procedure for Marriage) Regulations 2011
Made 7th November 2011
Laid before Parliament 10th November 2011
Coming into force 1st December 2011

The Secretary of State has consulted with the Registrar General, the Registrar General for Scotland and the Registrar General for Northern Ireland in accordance with sections 20(4), 22(2) and 24(2) of the Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc.) Act 2004.

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 19(2)(a), 21(2)(a) and 23(2)(a) of that Act, having regard to the meanings of “prescribed” in sections 22(2) and 24(2), makes the following Regulations.
Citation, commencement and interpretation
1 

(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Immigration (Procedure for Marriage) Regulations 2011 and shall come into force on 1st December 2011.
(2) In these Regulations, “the 2004 Act” means the Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc.) Act 2004.
Specified registration districts in England and Wales
2 
The registration districts in England and Wales listed in the Schedule are specified for the purposes of section 19(2)(a) of the 2004 Act.
Prescribed registration districts in Scotland
3 
Every registration district in Scotland is prescribed for the purposes of section 21(2)(a) of the 2004 Act.
Prescribed registrars in Northern Ireland
4 
The registrar of every register office in Northern Ireland is prescribed for the purposes of section 23(2)(a) of the 2004 Act.
Revocation
5 
The Immigration (Procedure for Marriage) Regulations 2005 are revoked.
Damian Green
Minister of State
Home Office
7th November 2011
SCHEDULE
SPECIFIED REGISTRATION DISTRICTS IN ENGLAND AND WALES
Regulation 2


 Barking and Dagenham
 Barnet
 Birmingham
 Blackburn with Darwen
 Brent
 Brighton and Hove
 Bristol
 Cambridgeshire
 Camden
 Cardiff
 Cardiganshire North
 Conwy
 Cornwall
 Coventry
 Croydon
 Cumbria
 Devon
 Ealing
 Enfield
 Essex
 Gloucestershire
 Greenwich
 Hackney
 Hammersmith and Fulham
 Hampshire
 Haringey
 Harrow
 Havering
 Hertfordshire
 Hillingdon
 Hounslow
 Hull
 Islington
 Kensington and Chelsea
 Kent
 Kingston upon Thames
 Lambeth
 Leeds
 Leicester
 Lewisham
 Lincolnshire
 Liverpool
 Luton
 Manchester
 Merton
 Middlesbrough
 Milton Keynes
 Newcastle upon Tyne
 Newham
 Norfolk
 Northamptonshire
 Nottingham
 Oxfordshire
 Pembrokeshire
 Peterborough
 Plymouth
 Powys
 Reading
 Redbridge
 Sheffield
 Shropshire
 Slough
 Southampton
 Southwark
 Stoke on Trent
 Suffolk
 Surrey
 Swansea
 Swindon
 Tower Hamlets
 Waltham Forest
 Wandsworth
 Westminster
 West Sussex
 Wrexham
