{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/matrimonial-causes-act-1965/section-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/matrimonial-causes-act-1965/section-8.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1965/72",
  "legislation_title": "Matrimonial Causes Act 1965",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/matrimonial-causes-act-1965",
  "path": "section/8",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Remarriage of divorced persons.",
  "text": "(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) No clergyman of the Church of England or the Church in Wales shall be compelled—\n(a) to solemnise the marriage of any person whose former marriage has been dissolved and whose former spouse is still living; or\n(b) to permit the marriage of such a person to be solemnised in the church or chapel of which he is the minister.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 1–8(1), 9–24, 25(2)(3) repealed by Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 (c. 18), s. 54(1), Sch. 3"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1965/72/section/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:57:04.095362+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."
}