{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marriage-northern-ireland-order-2003/article-25",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marriage-northern-ireland-order-2003/article-25.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/2003/413",
  "legislation_title": "The Marriage (Northern Ireland) Order 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marriage-northern-ireland-order-2003",
  "path": "article/25",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "25",
  "heading": "Commencement of marriage",
  "text": "The parties to a marriage solemnised in accordance with this Order shall be taken to be married to each other when both of them have made a declaration in the presence of each other, the person solemnising the marriage and two witnesses that they accept each other as husband and wife or as husband and husband or as wife and wife .",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 25 inserted (13.1.2020) by The Marriage (Same-sex Couples) and Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1514), regs. 1(2), 4 (with regs. 6-9)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/2003/413/article/25",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:40:22.940880+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."
}