{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/foreign-marriage-act-1947/section-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/foreign-marriage-act-1947/section-4.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo6/10-11/33",
  "legislation_title": "Foreign Marriage Act 1947",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/foreign-marriage-act-1947",
  "path": "section/4",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Repeal of certain provisions relating to marriages on board H.M.’s ships.",
  "text": "(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) In subsection (2) of section thirteen of the said Act the words “or on board one of Her Majesty’s ships” shall be omitted, in paragraph (e) of subsection (1) of section twenty-one of the said Act the words “to marriages on board one of Her Majesty’s ships and” shall be omitted, and in paragraph (f) of that subsection the words “or on board one of Her Majesty’s ships” shall be omitted.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 4(1) repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1950 (c. 6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "The text of ss. 2, 4(2) and 6 is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/10-11/33/section/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:23:59.129699+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."
}