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MARRIAGE (REGISTRATION OF BUILDINGS) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1967 - SECT 3

Solemnization of marriage in chapel registered under Part I.

3.(1) While any chapel is registered under this Part, then if the registrar
has issued a certificate under section 16 (whether as amended or as applied by
any enactment), or a licence under section 21, of the
Marriages (Ireland) Act 1844, there may be solemnized in that chapel the
marriage of the persons to whom the certificate or licence relates if at least
one of them is a qualified person.

(2) A marriage solemnized under subsection (1) shall be solemnized

(a)in accordance with the rites or usages of any church, denomination or body
of Christians of which at least one of the parties to the marriage is a
member;

(b)by a person authorised to solemnize marriages by the church, denomination
or body in accordance with whose rites or usages the marriage is solemnized;
and

(c)in the presence of the registrar.

(3) Section 3 of the Marriages (Ireland) Act 1844 (saving for Roman Catholic
marriages) shall have effect for the purposes of this Part as it has effect
for the purposes of that Act, but as if the references therein to that Act
included a reference to this Part.


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