{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/domicile-and-matrimonial-proceedings-act-1973/schedule-1/paragraph-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/domicile-and-matrimonial-proceedings-act-1973/schedule-1/paragraph-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1973/45",
  "legislation_title": "Domicile and Matrimonial Proceedings Act 1973",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/domicile-and-matrimonial-proceedings-act-1973",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "“Matrimonial proceedings” means any proceedings so far as they are one or more of the five following kinds (whether relating to a marriage of a man and a woman or a marriage of a same sex couple), namely, proceedings for—\ndivorce,\njudicial separation,\nnullity of marriage,\na declaration as to the validity of a marriage of the applicant, and\na declaration as to the subsistence of such a marriage.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 2 inserted (13.3.2014) by Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 (c. 30), s. 21(3), Sch. 4 para. 9; S.I. 2014/93, art. 3(j)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 1 para. 2 substituted (6.4.2022) by The Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Act 2020 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/237), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 1(3)(a) (with reg. 3); S.I. 2022/283, reg. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1973/45/schedule/1/paragraph/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:46:58.722887+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}