The Marriage and Civil Partnership (Scotland) Act 2014 and Civil Partnership Act 2004 (Consequential Provisions and Modifications) Order 2014

Provision disapplying the effect of Schedule 1 etc. in respect of the common law

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4.—(1) Paragraph 1(1) and (2) of Schedule 1 do not affect any rule of law concerning the right of a person—

(a)who marries, or who is married to, the King Regnant, to the title of Queen; or

(b)who marries, or who is married to, the Prince of Wales, to the title of Princess of Wales.

(2) Paragraph 1(1) and (2) of Schedule 1 does not affect any rule of law concerning the acquisition of a right to, or interest in, a peerage, and all titles, rights, offices, privileges and precedence attaching to it, by a person who marries or who is married to a peer holding that peerage.