{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/domicile-and-matrimonial-proceedings-act-1973/schedule-A1/paragraph-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/domicile-and-matrimonial-proceedings-act-1973/schedule-A1/paragraph-1.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/A1/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Introduction",
  "text": "This Schedule shall have effect, subject to section 6(3) and (4), with respect to the jurisdiction of the court to entertain any of the following proceedings in relation to a marriage of a same sex couple—\n(a) proceedings for divorce, judicial separation or nullity of marriage;\n( b ) proceedings for an order which ends a marriage on the ground that one of the couple is dead; and\n(c) proceedings for a declaration of validity.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. A1 inserted (31.10.2013 for specified purposes, 13.3.2014 in so far as not already in force) by Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 (c. 30), s. 21(3), Sch. 4 para. 8; S.I. 2013/2789, art. 2(b); S.I. 2014/93, art. 3(j)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Sch. A1 para. 1(b) modified (temp.) (13.3.2014) by Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 (c. 30), s. 21(3), Sch. 4 para. 10(3); S.I. 2014/93, art. 3(j)(i)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1973/45/schedule/A1/paragraph/1",
    "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."
}