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NAVAL MARRIAGES ACT 1908

NAVAL MARRIAGES ACT 1908 - LONG TITLE

An Act to authorise, for the purpose of Marriages in the United
Kingdom, the Publication of Banns and the Issue of Certificates on
board His Majesty's Ships in certain cases.
[1st August 1908]
Publication of banns on board His Majesty's ships.

NAVAL MARRIAGES ACT 1908 - SECT 1

1. Where one of the parties to a marriage intended to be
solemnised in England after the publication of banns is an officer,
seaman, or marine, borne on the books of one of His Majesty's
ships at sea, the banns may be published on three successive
Sundays at morning service on board that ship by the chaplain, or,
if there is no chaplain, by the captain or other officer commanding
the ship, and, where banns have been so published, the person who
published them shall, unless the banns have been forbidden on any
of the grounds on which banns may be forbidden, give a certificate
of publication.

NAVAL MARRIAGES ACT 1908 - SECT 2
Issue of certificates on board His Majesty's ships.

2. Where one of the parties to a marriage intended to be
solemnised or contracted in England otherwise than after the
publication of banns, or by licence, or by special licence, is an
officer, seaman, or marine borne on the books of one of His
Majesty's ships at sea, he may give notice of his intention to the
captain or other officer commanding the ship, together with the name
and address of the other party to the marriage, and such other
information as may be necessary to enable the captain or other
officer to fill up a certificate under this section, and shall at
the same time make and sign such a declaration as is required by
section two of the Marriage and Registration Act, 1856, and the
captain or other officer may attest the declaration and thereupon
issue a certificate to the officer, seaman, or marine giving the
notice.

NAVAL MARRIAGES ACT 1908 - SECT 3
Application of enactments.

3. A certificate given under this Act shall be in such form as
may be prescribed by the Admiralty, and shall have the like force
and effect as a certificate of publication of banns in a place of
worship in which banns may lawfully be published or a certificate
by a superintendent registrar under the Marriage and Registration
Act, 1856, as the case may be, and all enactments (including penal
provisions) relating

(1)to the publication of banns and certificates thereof; and

(2)to notices and declarations for obtaining certificates from
superintendent registrars, and to such certificates;

Application to Ireland.

NAVAL MARRIAGES ACT 1908 - SECT 5

5.(1) Where any such marriage as aforesaid is intended to be
solemnised or contracted in Ireland, this Act shall apply subject to
the following modifications:

(a)References to a district registrar of marriages in Ireland shall
be substituted for references to a superintendent registrar:

(b)References to the Marriage Law (Ireland) Amendment Act, 1863,
shall be substituted for references to the Marriage and Registration
Act, 1856, except that so much of section four of the
first-mentioned Act as requires a declaration of attendance at a
place of worship in respect of the male party shall not apply in
the case of declarations under this Act or made for the purposes
of a marriage under this Act.

(2) Where one of the parties to a marriage intended to be
solemnised or contracted in Ireland by licence from a district
registrar of marriages in Ireland is an officer, seaman, or marine
borne on the books of one of His Majesty's ships at sea, the
provisions of section two of this Act as applied to Ireland shall
apply as if the marriage was intended to be had without licence,
and the notice to be given by the other party to the intended
marriage need contain no statement as to his abode or residence in
any district in the United Kingdom; but, before the district
registrar issues the licence, the certificate of the captain or
other officer of the ship given under this Act shall be produced
to him.

NAVAL MARRIAGES ACT 1908 - SECT 6
Short title.

6. This Act may be cited as the Naval Marriages Act, 1908 ...