http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/12-13-14/76/section/24/1991-02-01Marriage Act 1949An Act to consolidate certain enactments relating to the solemnization and registration of marriages in England with such corrections and improvements as may be authorised under the Consolidation of Enactments (Procedure) Act, 1949.1974-12-31texttext/xmlenStatute Law Database2024-08-141991-02-01 Part II Marriage according to Rites of the Church of England Miscellaneous Provisions Proof of residence not necessary to validity of marriage by banns or common licence.241Where any marriage has been solemnized after the publication of banns of matrimony, it shall not be necessary in support of the marriage to give any proof of the residence of the parties or either of them in any parish or other ecclesiastical district in which the banns were published, and no evidence shall be given to prove the contrary in any proceedings touching the validity of the marriage.2Where any marriage has been solemnized on the authority of a common licence, it shall not be necessary in support of the marriage to give any proof that the usual place of residence of one of the parties was for fifteen days immediately before the grant of the licence in the parish or other ecclesiastical district in which the marriage was solemnized, and no evidence shall be given to prove the contrary in any proceedings touching the validity of the marriage.Pt. II applied by Sharing of Church Buildings Act 1969 (c. 38), s. 6(2)
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