MARRIAGES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1954

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MARRIAGES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1954 - SECT 1



1.(1) Notwithstanding any enactment or rule of law to the contrary, no person
shall

(a)issue a licence, special licence or registrar's certificate authorizing; or

(b)solemnize, under the authority of publication of banns or under any other
authority whatsoever other than a licence, special licence or registrar's
certificate, being a licence, special licence or registrar's certificate
issued in Northern Ireland;

(2) The consent required by virtue of the foregoing provisions of this section
shall be in writing in such form as may be prescribed and shall be produced to
and signed by the person solemnizing the marriage at such time or times as may
be prescribed.

(3) Any person who knowingly and wilfully acts in contravention of the
provisions of this section or who knowingly and wilfully conspires with any
other person to act in contravention thereof shall be guilty of an offence and
shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding fifty
pounds.

(4) Nothing in section thirty-two of the Marriages (Ireland) Act, 1844, shall
operate to prevent evidence being given on any prosecution for an offence
under this section to prove that the marriage to which the prosecution relates
was authorized or solemnized in contravention of this section and on any such
prosecution either of the parties to the marriage shall, notwithstanding any
rule of law to the contrary, be competent and compellable to give evidence as
if the marriage had never been solemnized.

(5) A marriage which, apart from this section, would be a valid marriage shall
not be deemed to be invalid by reason of any contravention of this section.

(6) Nothing in this Act shall dispense with the necessity of obtaining the
consent of the High Court to the marriage of a ward of court.

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Northern Irish Legislation

MARRIAGES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1954 - SECT 1