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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marriage-of-british-subjects-facilities-act-1915/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marriage-of-british-subjects-facilities-act-1915/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo5/5-6/40",
  "legislation_title": "Marriage of British Subjects (Facilities) Act 1915",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marriage-of-british-subjects-facilities-act-1915",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to facilitate Marriages between British Subjects resident in the United Kingdom and British Subjects resident in other parts of His Majesty’s Dominions or in British Protectorates.\n[19th May 1915]",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Words of enactment omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1948 (c. 62), s. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "This Act is not necessarily in the form in which it has effect in Northern Ireland"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Act repealed (S.) by Marriage (Scotland) Act 1977 (c. 15, SIF 49:2), s. 28(2), Sch. 3 (subject to a saving in s. 27(3) in relation to marriages before 1.1.1978)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "Act amended by S.I. 1980/701, Sch. para. 5"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C5",
      "text": "Act: power to amend conferred (26.5.2019) by Civil Partnerships, Marriages and Deaths (Registration etc) Act 2019 (c. 12), s. 5(1)(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo5/5-6/40/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:07:54.834000+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."
}