Part II Marriage according to Rites of the Church of England

Preliminary

F15A Marriages between certain persons related by affinity.

No clergyman shall be obliged—

(a)

to solemnize a marriage which, apart from the Marriage (Prohibited Degrees of Relationship) Act 1986, would have been void by reason of the relationship of the persons to be married; or

(b)

to permit such a marriage to be solemnized in the church or chapel of which he is the minister.