{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marriage-prohibited-degrees-of-relationship-act-1986/section-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marriage-prohibited-degrees-of-relationship-act-1986/section-3.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1986/16",
  "legislation_title": "Marriage (Prohibited Degrees of Relationship) Act 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marriage-prohibited-degrees-of-relationship-act-1986",
  "path": "section/3",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Marriage according to rites of Church of England or the Church in Wales.",
  "text": "In the Marriage Act 1949 after section 5 there shall be inserted the following section—\n“ Marriages between certain persons related by affinity.\n5A No clergyman shall be obliged—\n(a) to solemnize a marriage which, apart from the Marriage (Prohibited Degrees of Relationship) Act 1986, would have been void by reason of the relationship of the persons to be married; or\n(b) to permit such a marriage to be solemnized in the church or chapel of which he is the minister.”",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1949 c. 76."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1986/16/section/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:59:25.536294+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."
}