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Marriage (Secretaries of Synagogues) Act 1959

7 & 8 Eliz. 2 c. 13 · Enacted 19 February 1959 · Extends to United Kingdom

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An Act to amend the definition of “secretary of a synagogue” in section sixty-seven of the Marriage Act, 1949.

[19th February 1959]C1

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Words of enactment omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1948 (c. 62), s. 3

Contents

  1. 1Amendment of definition of “secretary of a synagogue.”
  2. 2Citation.

1Amendment of definition of “secretary of a synagogue.”C1

In section sixty-seven of the M1Marriage Act, 1949, the definition of “secretary of a synagogue” shall be amended by substituting for paragraph (c) thereof the following paragraphs:—

“(c)

the person whom twenty householders professing the Jewish religion and being members of the Liberal Jewish Synagogue, St. John’s Wood, certify in writing to the Registrar General to be the secretary of that Synagogue;

(d)

a person whom the secretary of either the West London Synagogue of British Jews or the Liberal Jewish Synagogue, St. Johns’s Wood, certifies in writing to be the secretary of some other synagogue of not less than twenty householders professing the Jewish religion, being a synagogue which is connected with the said West London Synagogue or with the said Liberal Jewish Synagogue, St. Johns’s Wood, as the case may be, and has been established for not less than one year.”

2Citation.

This Act may be cited as the Marriage (Secretaries of Synagogues) Act, 1959, and the Marriage Acts, 1949 to 1958, and this Act may be cited together as the Marriage Acts, 1949 to 1959.