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MARRIAGES VALIDITY ACT 1899

MARRIAGES VALIDITY ACT 1899 - LONG TITLE

An Act to remove doubts as to the Validity of certain Marriages.
[9th August 1899]
Validation of certain marriages.

MARRIAGES VALIDITY ACT 1899 - SECT 1

1. No marriage ... to be hereafter solemnised, in any church ...
in Ireland, after publication of banns in such church, shall be ...
invalid by reason only that one of the parties to such marriage
was ... resident in England, and that banns may have been published
in any church of the parish or place in which such party was
resident, according to the law or custom there prevailing, and not
in the manner required for the publication of banns in the part of
the United Kingdom in which the marriage has been solemnised.

MARRIAGES VALIDITY ACT 1899 - SECT 2
Short title.

2. This Act may be cited as the Marriages Validity Act, 1899.