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MARRIAGE AND MATRIMONIAL CAUSES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1946

MARRIAGE AND MATRIMONIAL CAUSES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1946 - LONG
TITLE

An Act to extend the hours within which marriages may lawfully be
solemnized; to require the age in years of each of the parties to
be stated on the registration of a marriage; to confer on the
Supreme Court temporary jurisdiction in certain matrimonial causes
where the relevant marriage took place on or after the third day
of September, nineteen hundred and thirty-nine and before the first
day of January, nineteen hundred and forty-six; and for purposes
connected with the matters aforesaid.
[29th August 1946]
Hours of solemnization, and provisions as to registration of,
marriagesExtension of hours for solemnization of marriages.

MARRIAGE AND MATRIMONIAL CAUSES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1946 - SECT 1

1.(1) The enactments specified in the Schedule to this Act (being
enactments which as amended by the Marriages (Ireland) Act, 1918,
require that marriages solemnized at certain places or in certain
circumstances shall be solemnized between the hours of eight in the
morning and three in the afternoon) shall be amended by the
substitution of the words "six in the afternoon" for the words
"three in the afternoon," and, in any enactment incorporating the
requirement aforesaid, references to the hours first mentioned shall
be construed as references to the hours as extended by this
section.

(2) The forms of marriage licences shall be altered so as to give
effect to the foregoing provisions.

Subs.(3) rep. by SLR (NI) 1952

MARRIAGE AND MATRIMONIAL CAUSES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1946 - SECT 2
Age in years of parties to be stated on registration of marriage.

2.(1) After the passing of this Act every entry of the particulars
relating to a marriage required by law to be made in a marriage
register book, register book or register of marriages, and every
certificate issued for the purpose of the registration of a marriage
and certifying that a marriage has been solemnized shall contain a
statement of [the date of birth and] the age in years, on the
date of the marriage, of each party thereto.

(2) Schedule G of the Marriages (Ireland) Act, 1844 (which contains
the form in which entries are to be made in a marriage register
book), Form (A) of the Schedule to the Registration of Marriages
(Ireland) Act, 1863, and the Schedule to the Matrimonial Causes and
Marriage Law (Ireland) Amendment Act, 1871 (which relate to
certificates issued for the purpose of the registration of marriages)
shall have effect subject to the provisions of this section.

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c.110

and thirty-eight.

Amendment Act, 1870.

Section 1(1).