{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/overseas-marriage-armed-forces-order-2014/article-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/overseas-marriage-armed-forces-order-2014/article-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2014/1108",
  "legislation_title": "The Overseas Marriage (Armed Forces) Order 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/overseas-marriage-armed-forces-order-2014",
  "path": "article/8",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Consent to marriage",
  "text": "(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) Where either party to the marriage is under the age of 18 and the relevant part of the United Kingdom is Northern Ireland then the same consents are required as would be required under Article 22 of the Marriage (Northern Ireland) Order 2003 in respect of a marriage solemnized in Northern Ireland.\n(4) The authorised person in whose presence the marriage is to be solemnized may dispense with the requirement to obtain those consents if the authorised person is satisfied that it is not reasonably practicable to obtain the consent of any person whose consent is so required.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 8(1) omitted (27.2.2023) by virtue of The Marriage and Civil Partnership (Minimum Age) Act 2022 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/82), regs. 1(2), 6; S.I. 2023/88, reg. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Art. 8(2) omitted (27.2.2023) by virtue of The Marriage and Civil Partnership (Minimum Age) Act 2022 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/82), regs. 1(2), 6; S.I. 2023/88, reg. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Art. 8(3)(4) inserted (13.1.2020) by The Marriage (Same-sex Couples) and Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1514), regs. 1(2), 14(5) (with regs. 6-9)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 8 in force at 3.6.2014, see art. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/1108/article/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:17:52.541920+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."
}