{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/private-international-law-miscellaneous-provisions-act-1995/section-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/private-international-law-miscellaneous-provisions-act-1995/section-7.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1995/42",
  "legislation_title": "Private International Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/private-international-law-miscellaneous-provisions-act-1995",
  "path": "section/7",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Validity and effect in Scots law of potentially polygamous marriages.",
  "text": "(1) A person domiciled in Scotland does not lack capacity to enter into a marriage by reason only that the marriage is entered into under a law which permits polygamy.\n(2) For the avoidance of doubt, a marriage valid by the law of Scotland and entered into—\n(a) under a law which permits polygamy; and\n(b) at a time when neither party to the marriage is already married,\nhas, so long as neither party marries a second spouse during the subsistence of the marriage, the same effects for all purposes of the law of Scotland as a marriage entered into under a law which does not permit polygamy.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1995/42/section/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:32:45.822461+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."
}