This Act may be cited as the Matrimonial Proceedings (Polygamous Marriages) Act 1972.

References in this Act to any enactment shall be construed as references to that enactment as amended, and as including references thereto as extended or applied, by any subsequent enactment.

In subsection (2) of this section " enactment" includes an enactment of the Parliament of Northern Ireland; and for the purposes of section 6 of the M1Government of Ireland Act 1920 this Act shall, so far as it relates to matters within the powers of the Parliament of Northern Ireland, be deemed to be an Act passed before the appointed day within the meaning of that section.