{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/foreign-marriage-order-1970/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/foreign-marriage-order-1970/article-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1970/1539",
  "legislation_title": "The Foreign Marriage Order 1970",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/foreign-marriage-order-1970",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) In special cases, where the Secretary of State is satisfied that for some good cause the requirements of the Foreign Marriage Act 1892 as to residence and notice for a marriage intended to be solemnised under the Act cannot be complied with, and he is satisfied that the intended marriage is not clandestine and that adequate public notice of the intended marriage has been given in the place or places where each of the parties resided not less than fifteen days next preceding the giving of such notice, he may authorise the marriage officer to dispense with those requirements.\n(2) In cases falling under paragraph (1) of this Article, the oath under section 7 of the Foreign Marriage Act 1892 shall omit the matter specified in subsection (b) of that section.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Order revoked (E.W.S.) (3.6.2014) by The Consular Marriages and Marriages under Foreign Law Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/1110), arts. 1(1), 17"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 4 in force at 1.1.1971, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1970/1539/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T22:54:06.108168+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."
}