Marriage (Registrar General’s Licence) Act 1970

13 Void marriages.E+W

The provisions of section 49 of the principal Act (void marriages) shall apply to a marriage under the authority of the Registrar General’s licence:—

[F1(a)as if for paragraph (b) there were substituted—

(b)without a Registrar General’s licence;;]

F2(b). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(c)with the substitution for paragraph (d) of the words “on the authority of a licence which is void by virtue of section 8(2) of the Marriage (Registrar General’s Licence) Act 1970”;

(d)with the substitution for paragraph (e) of the words “in any place other than the place specified in the notice of marriage and the Registrar General’s licence”;

(e)with the substitution for paragraphs (f) and (g) of the words “in the absence of a registrar or, where the marriage is by civil ceremony, of a superintendent registrar, except where the marriage is solemnised according to the usages of the Society of Friends or is a marriage between two persons professing the Jewish religion according to the usages of the Jews”.