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Section 13 Void marriages.

England and Wales

The provisions of section 49 of the principal Act (void marriages) shall apply to a marriage under the authority of the Registrar General’s licence:—

F1(a)

as if for paragraph (b) there were substituted—

“(b)

without a Registrar General’s licence;”;

F2(b)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(c)

with the substitution for paragraph (d) of the words “on the authority of a licence which is void by virtue of section 8(2) of the Marriage (Registrar General’s Licence) Act 1970”;

(d)

with the substitution for paragraph (e) of the words “in any place other than the place specified in the notice of marriage and the Registrar General’s licence”;

(e)

with the substitution for paragraphs (f) and (g) of the words “in the absence of a registrar or, where the marriage is by civil ceremony, of a superintendent registrar, except where the marriage is solemnised according to the usages of the Society of Friends or is a marriage between two persons professing the Jewish religion according to the usages of the Jews”.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

S. 13(a) substituted (4.5.2021) by The Registration of Marriages Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/411), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 56(8) (with Sch. 2)

F2

S. 13(b) repealed (1.1.2001) by 1999 c. 33 , s. 169(1)(3) , Sch. 14 para. 42(b) ; S.I. 2000/2698 , art. 2 , Sch.