{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/matrimonial-causes-act-1973/section-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/matrimonial-causes-act-1973/section-15.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1973/18",
  "legislation_title": "Matrimonial Causes Act 1973",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/matrimonial-causes-act-1973",
  "path": "section/15",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Application of sections 8 and 9 to proceedings for a nullity of marriage order",
  "text": "Section 8 (intervention of Queen's Proctor) and section 9 (proceedings before divorce order has been made final: general powers of court) apply in relation to proceedings for a nullity of marriage order as if for any reference in those sections to a divorce order there were substituted a reference to a nullity of marriage order.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 15 substituted (6.4.2022) by Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Act 2020 (c. 11), s. 8(1)(8), Sch. para. 14 (with s. 8(6)); S.I. 2022/283, reg. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1973/18/section/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:47:46.859204+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."
}