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MARRIAGE (REGISTRATION OF BUILDINGS) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1967

MARRIAGE (REGISTRATION OF BUILDINGS) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1967 -
LONG TITLE

An Act to make provision in respect of the solemnization of
marriages in naval, military and air force chapels and to make
further provision in relation to buildings licensed or registered for
the solemnization of marriages under the Marriages (Ireland) Act
1844, the Mariage Law (Ireland) Amendment Act 1863 or the
Matrimonial Causes and Marriage Law (Ireland) Amendment Act 1870.
[14th December 1967]
PART I

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SECT 1

1.(1) This Part shall apply only to chapels which are certified by
the Secretary of State to be naval, military or air force chapels.

(2) The Registrar General shall, on the application of the Secretary
of State, register any chapel to which this Part applies for the
solemnization therein of marriages to which this Part applies.

(3) The Registrar General shall, on the application of the Secretary
of State, cancel the registration of any chapel registered by him
under this section.

(4) Immediately after registering, or cancelling the registration of,
any chapel under this section, the Registrar General shall cause
notice of that fact to be published in the Belfast Gazette and in
a newspaper circulating in the locality in which the chapel is
situated and to be given to the Secretary of State and to the
registrar of marriages for the registration district in which the
chapel is situated (in this Part referred to as "the registrar"),
and that registrar shall record the registration or cancellation in
such manner as the Registrar General may direct.

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SECT 2
""Qualified persons'' for purposes of Part I.

2.(1) In this Part "qualified person" means a person who, at the
relevant date

(a)is serving in any of the following forces raised in the United
Kingdom, namely, the Royal Navy, the Royal Marines, the regular army
or the Royal Air Force;

(b)has served in any force mentioned in paragraph (a) otherwise than
with a commission granted or under an engagement entered into only
for the purpose of a war or other national emergency;

(c)is called out on permanent service as a member of a reserve of
officers, a reserve force, the territorial and army volunteer reserve
or the Royal Auxiliary Air Force;

(d)is a woman actually employed in any capacity specified in
Schedule 1, as amended by any Order in Council for the time being
in force under this section, in the service of the Royal Navy or
the Royal Marines;

(e)is a member of a visiting force or a headquarters; or

(f)is a daughter of a person qualified under paragraph (a), (b),
(c), (d) or (e).

(2) The Governor may by Order in Council direct that, subject to
any exceptions specified in the Order, there shall be added to
Schedule 1, women employed in such capacities as may be specified
in the Order in the service of the Royal Navy or the Royal
Marines.

(3) A draft of any Order in Council under subsection (2) shall be
subject to negative resolution.

(4) In this section

"daughter" includes a daughter adopted in pursuance of an order made
in any part of the United Kingdom, in the Isle of Man, in any of
the Channel Islands or in the Republic of Ireland, but does not
include a step-daughter;

"member of a headquarters" has the same meaning as in the Visiting
Forces and International Headquarters (Application of Law) Order 1965;

"relevant date" means the date on which notice of the marriage in
question is given to a registrar under section 13 of the Marriages
(Ireland) Act 1844 (whether as amended or as applied by any
enactment);

"visiting force" has the same meaning as in the said Order of
1965.

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SECT 3
Solemnization of marriage in chapel registered under Part I.

3.(1) While any chapel is registered under this Part, then if the
registrar has issued a certificate under section 16 (whether as
amended or as applied by any enactment), or a licence under section
21, of the Marriages (Ireland) Act 1844, there may be solemnized in
that chapel the marriage of the persons to whom the certificate or
licence relates if at least one of them is a qualified person.

(2) A marriage solemnized under subsection (1) shall be solemnized

(a)in accordance with the rites or usages of any church,
denomination or body of Christians of which at least one of the
parties to the marriage is a member;

(b)by a person authorised to solemnize marriages by the church,
denomination or body in accordance with whose rites or usages the
marriage is solemnized; and

(c)in the presence of the registrar.

(3) Section 3 of the Marriages (Ireland) Act 1844 (saving for Roman
Catholic marriages) shall have effect for the purposes of this Part
as it has effect for the purposes of that Act, but as if the
references therein to that Act included a reference to this Part.

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SECT 4
Application of marriage enactments to marriages under Part I.

4. Subject to the provisions of this Part, the enactments for the
time being in force relating to marriages and the registration of
marriages shall, subject to the exceptions and modifications specified
in Schedule 2, apply in relation to a chapel to which this Part
applies and to a marriage solemnized in such a chapel or intended
to be solemnized therein as if the chapel was a building registered
under section 27 of the Marriages (Ireland) Act 1844.

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SECT 5
Evidence of marriages under Part I.

5. Where a marriage has been solemnized in accordance with this
Part, it shall not be necessary, in support of the marriage, to
give any proof

(a)that the chapel in which the marriage was solemnized was
registered under this Part; or

(b)that either of the parties was a qualified person within the
meaning of this Part;

Saving.

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SECT 6

6. Nothing in this Part shall be taken to confer upon any person
a right to be married in a chapel to which this Part applies.

Licensing and registration of buildings in which marriages may be
solemnized.

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SECT 7

7.(1) A building may be licensed for the celebration of marriages
or, as the case may be, registered, two or more times under any
of the following enactments and may be so licensed or registered
under more than one of those enactments, that is to say:

section 7 of the Marriages (Ireland) Act 1844

(registration of Presbyterian churches);

section 27 of the said Act of 1844

(registration of places of public religious worship);

section 12 of the Marriage Law (Ireland) Amendment Act 1863

(registration of places of public religious worship);

section 34 of the Matrimonial Causes and Marriage Law(Ireland)
Amendment Act 1870

(licensing of Church of Ireland churches);

Subs.(2) amends s.27 of 1844 c.81; s.12 of 1863 c.27

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SECT 8
Short title.

8. This Act may be cited as the Marriage (Registration of
Buildings) Act (Northern Ireland) 1967.

1. Employment with the medical branch of the Royal Navy as an
officer.

2. Member of the Women's Royal Naval Service.

3. Member of Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service, or its
reserve.

1844 (7 & 8 Vict., c.81)

Amendment Act 1863 (26 &Marriage Law (Ireland)34 Vict., c.110)