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MARRIAGE WITH FOREIGNERS ACT 1906 - SECT 1

1.(1) Any British subject who desires to be married in a foreign country to a
foreigner according to the law of that country may, if it is desired for the
purpose of complying with the requirement of the law of that country to obtain
the certificate hereinafter mentioned, give notice of the marriage, if
resident in [any part of the United Kingdom other than Scotland], to the
registrar, and if resident abroad, to the marriage officer, and apply to the
registrar or officer for a certificate that after proper notices have been
given no legal impediment to the marriage has been shown to the registrar or
officer to exist, and the registrar or officer shall, after the conditions set
out in the Schedule to this Act have been complied with, give the certificate
applied for, unless the certificate is forbidden or a caveat is in operation
as provided in that Schedule, or some legal impediment to the marriage is
shown to the registrar or officer to exist.

Subs.(2) rep. by 1979 NI19 art.19(2) sch.2

(3) If any person enters a caveat on grounds which the registrar or officer
or, in case of appeal, the Registrar-General declares to be frivolous, that
person shall be liable to pay as a debt to the applicant for the certificate
such sum as the registrar or officer or, in the case of appeal, the
Registrar-General considers to be proper compensation for the damage caused to
the applicant by the entering of the caveat.

(4) Such fees may be charged in respect of any notice of an intended marriage,
or any application for or grant of a certificate or the entering of a caveat
under this section, as may be fixed, as respects certificates to be granted by
or caveats entered with registrars, by the Registrar-General, with the consent
of His Majesty in Council, and, as respects certificates to be granted by or
caveats entered with a marriage officer, as may be fixed by Order under the
[Consular Fees Act 1980].

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