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Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013

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4(1)Section 25 (void marriages) is amended as follows.U.K.

(2)At the beginning insert—

(1)A marriage shall be void in any of the following cases..

(3)The existing wording of section 25 becomes subsection (2) of that section; and, at the beginning of that subsection, for “If any persons” substitute—

(2)Case A is where any persons.

(4)For the words after paragraph (d) substitute—

(3)Case B is where any persons knowingly and wilfully consent to or acquiesce in the solemnization of a Church of England marriage between them by a person who is not in Holy Orders.

(4)Case C is where any persons of the same sex consent to or acquiesce in the solemnization of a Church of England marriage between them.

(5)In subsections (3) and (4) “Church of England marriage” means a marriage according to the rites of the Church of England..

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I1Sch. 7 para. 4 in force at 13.3.2014 by S.I. 2014/93, art. 3(k)(i)

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