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Notes:
  1. The certificate of approval scheme under the Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants etc) Act 2004 came into effect 1 February 2005, to prevent the use of marriage to circumvent UK immigration control (‘sham marriages’). This scheme was abolished on 9 May 2011.
  2. The marriage rate shows the number of marriages per 1,000 unmarried males/females aged 16 and over.
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