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An Act to amend the Marriage of British Subjects (Facilities) Act, 1915.
[19th July 1916]
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1Words of enactment omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1948 (c. 62), s. 3
C2This Act is not necessarily in the form in which it has effect in Northern Ireland
C3Act repealed (S.) by Marriage (Scotland) Act 1977 (c. 15), s. 28(2), Sch. 3 (subject to a saving in s. 27(3) in relation to marriages before 1.1.1978)
C4Act: power to amend conferred (26.5.2019) by Civil Partnerships, Marriages and Deaths (Registration etc) Act 2019 (c. 12), ss. 5(1)(a), 6(3)
If His Majesty is satisfied that, for the purposes of a marriage to be solemnized or contracted in any part of His Dominions outside the United Kingdom between a British subject resident in that part and a British subject resident in [F1Scotland] or Ireland, no notice of the marriage is, under the law in force in that part of His Dominions, required on the part of the person resident in [F1Scotland] or Ireland, His Majesty may by Order in Council declare that section one of the M1Marriage of British Subjects (Facilities) Act, 1915, shall apply to that part of His Dominions, notwithstanding that the law in force in that part does not make provision for the recognition of certificates for marriage issued in [F1Scotland] and Ireland, and of certificates of proclamation of banns issued in Scotland, as sufficient notice in respect of such marriages as aforesaid, provided that the other conditions required by that section are fulfilled.
Textual Amendments
F1Word in s. 1 substituted (4.5.2021) by The Registration of Marriages Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/411), regs. 1(2), 9 (with Sch. 2)
Marginal Citations
This Act may be cited as the Marriage of British Subjects (Facilities) Amendment Act, 1916, and the Marriage of British Subjects (Facilities) Act, 1915, and this Act may be cited together as the Marriage of British Subjects (Facilities) Acts, 1915 and 1916.