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MARRIAGE (REGISTRATION OF BUILDINGS) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1967 - SECT 2

""Qualified persons'' for purposes of Part I.

2.(1) In this Part "qualified person" means a person who, at the relevant date

(a)is serving in any of the following forces raised in the United Kingdom,
namely, the Royal Navy, the Royal Marines, the regular army or the Royal Air
Force;

(b)has served in any force mentioned in paragraph (a) otherwise than with a
commission granted or under an engagement entered into only for the purpose of
a war or other national emergency;

(c)is called out on permanent service as a member of a reserve of officers, a
reserve force, the territorial and army volunteer reserve or the Royal
Auxiliary Air Force;

(d)is a woman actually employed in any capacity specified in Schedule 1, as
amended by any Order in Council for the time being in force under this
section, in the service of the Royal Navy or the Royal Marines;

(e)is a member of a visiting force or a headquarters; or

(f)is a daughter of a person qualified under paragraph (a), (b), (c), (d) or
(e).

(2) The Governor may by Order in Council direct that, subject to any
exceptions specified in the Order, there shall be added to Schedule 1, women
employed in such capacities as may be specified in the Order in the service of
the Royal Navy or the Royal Marines.

(3) A draft of any Order in Council under subsection (2) shall be subject to
negative resolution.

(4) In this section

"daughter" includes a daughter adopted in pursuance of an order made in any
part of the United Kingdom, in the Isle of Man, in any of the Channel Islands
or in the Republic of Ireland, but does not include a step-daughter;

"member of a headquarters" has the same meaning as in the Visiting Forces and
International Headquarters (Application of Law) Order 1965;

"relevant date" means the date on which notice of the marriage in question is
given to a registrar under section 13 of the Marriages (Ireland) Act 1844
(whether as amended or as applied by any enactment);

"visiting force" has the same meaning as in the said Order of 1965.


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