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MATRIMONIAL CAUSES AND MARRIAGE LAW (IRELAND) AMENDMENT ACT 1870 - SECT 35

Licences for marriages.

35. Every bishop of the said Church may, by writing under his hand, nominate
persons to issue licences for marriages, and, by the same or other writings,
define in and for what districts within the episcopal superintendence of such
bishop such persons are respectively to issue the same ...; and every such
licence shall be held to authorize marriage in any churches and chapels
situate within such districts respectively in which marriages may be
solemnized under the provisions of this Act, and which shall be specified in
such licences, whenever both of the parties shall be Protestant Episcopalians,
and resident within such districts; and such licences shall be in the Form
No.I. in the schedule (A) to this Act annexed, or to the like effect; and for
every such licence such person shall be entitled to have for his own benefit,
of the party requiring the same, [the prescribed fee]; and in any case in
which such person shall refuse to grant such licence, the person applying for
the same shall be entitled to appeal to the bishop by whom such person shall
have been so appointed, or his successor, who shall thereupon either confirm
the refusal or direct the grant of the licence; and every person so appointed
shall four times in every year, on such days as shall be appointed by the
Registrar General, make a return to the Registrar General of every licence
granted by him since his last return, and of the particulars stated concerning
the parties: Provided always, that no such person shall grant any such licence
until he shall have given security by his bond in the sum of one hundred
pounds to the Registrar General for the due and faithful execution of his
office.

A licence for marriage shall not be granted by any such person until seven
days after notice shall have been given by one of the parties who shall have
dwelt for not less than seven days then next preceding in the district named
in that notice, under his or her hand, in the Form No.II. in the schedule (A)
to this Act annexed, or to the like effect, to such person, and such person
shall forthwith send a copy of such notice to the clergymen officiating at the
places of worship where the parties intending marriage have been in the habit
of attending.

Every person so appointed shall file and keep with the records of his office
every such notice, and shall also forthwith enter a true copy of such notice
fairly in a book to be for that purpose furnished to him by the Registrar
General, to be called "The Marriage Notice Book," which book shall be open at
all reasonable times, without fee, to all persons desirous of inspecting the
same, and for entering every such notice the person so appointed shall be
entitled to have [the prescribed fee] over and above the accustomed fee for
granting the licence.

Whenever a marriage shall not be had within three calendar months after the
notice shall have been so given to the person so appointed as aforesaid, the
notice, and any licence which may have been granted thereupon, shall be
utterly void.

Before any licence for marriage shall be granted by any such person one of the
parties intending marriage shall appear personally before him, and shall make
and subscribe an oath or make affirmation, which oath or affirmation such
person is hereby authorized to administer, that he or she believeth that there
is not any impediment of kindred or alliance or other lawful hindrance to the
said marriage and that one of the said parties hath for the space of fourteen
days immediately before the day of the grant of such licence had his or her
usual place of abode within the district attached in manner herein provided,
for the purpose of celebration of marriages, to the church or chapel in which
such marriage is to be solemnized, and that they are both of the full age of
[eighteen] years, or, when either of the parties shall be under the age of
[eighteen] years, that the consent of the person or persons whose consent to
such marriage is required by law has been obtained thereto, or that there is
no person having authority to give such consent, or that such person is a
widower or widow, as the case may be.


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