# Marriage (Declaration of Law) Act (Northern Ireland) 1944, Section 1: Re-marriage of divorced persons.


No clergyman in holy orders or minister of any religious denomination shall be compelled, by virtue of any provision in the Acts set out in Part I of the Schedule to this Act or any other enactment or any rule of law, to solemnize the marriage of any person whose former marriage has been dissolved on any ground and whose former husband or wife is still living, or to permit the marriage of any such person to be solemnized in the church, chapel or other place of public worship of which he is the minister.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/apni/1944/7/section/1 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/marriage-declaration-of-law-act-northern-ireland-1944/section-1
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