{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/matrimonial-proceedings-polygamous-marriages-act-1972/section-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/matrimonial-proceedings-polygamous-marriages-act-1972/section-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1972/38",
  "legislation_title": "Matrimonial Proceedings (Polygamous Marriages) Act 1972",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/matrimonial-proceedings-polygamous-marriages-act-1972",
  "path": "section/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Matrimonial relief and declarations as to validity in respect of polygamous marriages: Scotland.",
  "text": "(1) A court in Scotland shall not be precluded from entertaining proceedings for, or granting, any such decree as is mentioned in subsection (2) below by reason only that either party to the marriage is, or has during the subsistence of the marriage been, married to more than one person.\n(2) The decrees referred to in subsection (1) above are—\n(a) a decree of divorce;\n(b) a decree of nullity of marriage;\n(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(d) a decree of separation;\n(e) a decree of aliment;\n(f) a decree of declarator that a marriage is valid or invalid;\n(g) any other decree involving a determination as to the validity of a marriage;\nand the reference in subsection (1) above to granting such a decree as aforesaid includes a reference to making any ancillary or incidentalorder which the court has power to make in proceedings for such a decree.\n(3) Provision may be made by rules of court—\n(a) for requiring notice of proceedings brought by virtue of this section to be served on any additional spouse of a party to the marriage in question; and\n(b) for conferring on any such additional spouse the right to be heard in the proceedings,\nin such cases as may be specified in the rules.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 2(1) substituted (8.1.1996) by 1995 c. 42, ss. 8, 16(2), Sch. para. 1(2) (with s. 8(1)(3))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 2(2)(c) repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1986 (c. 12), s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt. I"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 2(2)(d) and (e) substituted by virtue of Family Law (Scotland) Act 1985 (c. 37, SIF 49:3), ss. 28(1), 29, Sch. 1 para. 8(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words inserted by Family Law (Scotland) Act 1985 (c. 37, SIF 49:3), ss. 28(1), 29, Sch. 1 para. 8(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "S. 2(3) substituted (8.1.1996) by 1995 c. 42, ss. 8, 16(2), Sch. para. 1(3) (with s. 8(1)(3))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1972/38/section/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:48:54.308658+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."
}