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MATRIMONIAL CAUSES (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1978 - SECT 61

61.(1) In consequence of the repeal by this Order of the proviso to section 8
of the Matrimonial Causes Act (Northern Ireland) 1939 (certain marriages
between persons related by affinity to be void where a previous marriage was
terminated by divorce, although they would have been valid had the previous
marriage been terminated by death) it is hereby declared that a marriage
contracted (whether in or out of Northern Ireland) after the commencement of
that repeal between a man to whom this Article applies and a woman to whom it
applies shall not by virtue of the relationship between them be void as a
marriage between persons within the prohibited degrees of affinity.

(2) This Article applies to a man and a woman who is the sister, aunt or niece
of his divorced wife or who is the divorced wife of his brother, uncle or
nephew; and in this paragraph words of kinship apply equally to kin of the
whole and of the half blood.

(3) The said repeal and this Article do not validate a marriage if either
party to it is at the time of the marriage domiciled in a country outside
Northern Ireland and under the law of that country there cannot be a valid
marriage between the parties.

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