Church of England Marriage (Amendment) Measure 2012
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | measure 2012 No. 1 |
Church of England Marriage (Amendment) Measure 2012
A Measure passed by the General Synod of the Church of England to amend the Church of England Marriage Measure 2008 to widen the conditions for establishing the qualifying connections of persons intending to be married in certain cases and to provide for the form of banns of matrimony where the form set out in the Book of Common Prayer is not used and for the time of the publication of banns; and for connected purposes.
[19th December 2012]
1 Qualifying connections under section 1 of the Church of England Marriage Measure 2008
(1) After section 1 of the Church of England Marriage Measure 2008 ("the 2008 Measure") there shall be inserted the following section-
"1A Further provisions as to qualifying connections
(1) Where a person intending to be married has, under section 1 above, a qualifying connection with a parish belonging to a benefice and-
(a) a direction is in force under section 23 of the 1949 Act in respect of both that benefice and another benefice held in plurality, or
(b) a direction is in force under section 23, as extended by paragraph 14(4) of Schedule 3 to the Pastoral Measure 1983, in respect of a church or chapel of that parish and of another parish in the same benefice,
the marriage may be solemnized and the banns of the marriage may be published under and in accordance with section 1 in any church or chapel specified in the direction.
(2) Where-
(a) a parish church, or a public chapel to which section 1(10) above applies, is being rebuilt or repaired and on that account is not being used for divine service, and
(b) a person intends to be married on the basis of a qualifying connection under section 1 with the parish in which that church or chapel is situated,
the marriage of that person may be solemnized and the banns of that marriage may be published under and in accordance with section 1 in any building in which, under section 18 of the 1949 Act, the marriage could be solemnized and the banns pu blished, whether or not that building is situated within that parish.
(3) Section 6(3) of the 1949 Act shall apply for the purposes of section 1 above as it applies for the purposes of section 6 of that Act and a person who has the right to have banns published in an adjoining parish under that subsection shall be deemed to have a qualifying connection under section 1 with that...
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