SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 29Minor and consequential amendments: Northern Ireland
Matrimonial Causes (Northern Ireland) Order 1978 (S.I. 1978/1045 (N.I. 15))
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Amend Article 17 (marriages governed by foreign law or celebrated abroad under certain enactments or common law) as follows.
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In paragraph (1), at the beginning insert “
Subject to paragraph (3)
”
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After paragraph (2) insert—
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No marriage is to be treated as valid by virtue of paragraph (1) if, at the time when it purports to have been celebrated, either party was already a civil partner.