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Marriage (Enabling) Act 1960 1960 c.29 An Act to enable a person to marry certain kin of a former spouse. [13th April 1960]
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Marriage (Enabling) Act 1960
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1 Certain marriages not to be void.
(1) No marriage hereafter contracted (whether in or out of Great Britain) between a man and a woman who is the sister, aunt or niece of a former wife of his (whether living or not), or was formerly the wife of his brother, uncle or nephew (whether living or not), shall by reason of that relationship be void or voidable under any enactment or rule of law applying in Great Britain as a marriage between persons within the prohibited degrees of affinity. (2) In the foregoing subsection words of kinship apply equally to kin of the whole and of the half blood. (3) This section does not validate a marriage, if either party to it is at the time of the marriage domiciled in a country outside Great Britain, and under the law of that country there cannot be a valid marriage between the parties. (4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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(1) This Act may be cited as the Marriage (Enabling) Act, 1960, and this Act and the Marriage Acts, 1949 to 1958, may be cited together as the Marriage Acts, 1949 to 1960. (2) This Act shall not apply to Northern Ireland.
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