Schedule 1

NEW ZEALAND—Sub-section (1) of section 7 of the Marriage Amendment Act 1946 reads as follows:—

“Any Service marriage solemnised out of New Zealand by any member of the forces who is a chaplain or is duly authorised in that behalf shall be deemed to have been and to be valid as if it had been solemnised in New Zealand in accordance with the Principal Act^f1 by a person duly authorised in that behalf.”

AUSTRALIA—Section 14 of the Marriage (Overseas) Act 1955 reads as follows:—

“(1)

Subject to this Act a marriage between parties of whom one at least is a member of the Defence Force may be solemnised in an overseas country by a chaplain.

(2)

A marriage solemnised under this part being a marriage which if it had been solemnised in the Australian Capital Territory and the forms required by the law in force in that Territory had been duly observed would under the law of a State or Territory of the Commonwealth have been a valid marriage is, by force of this Act, valid in that State or Territory.

(3)

The Governor General may by proclamation declare that a part of the Queen's Dominions which has been occupied by a state at war with the Commonwealth and in which facilities for marriage in accordance with the local law have not, in the opinion of the Governor General, been adequately restored shall be deemed to be an overseas country for the purposes of this section.”