An Act for legalizing Marriages heretofore solemnized in certain Churches and Places.
W HEREAS doubts have arisen as to the validity of certain marriages solemnized in certain churches and places mentioned in this Act, and it is expedient to remove those doubts:
Be it therefore enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
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Legalizing marriages solemnized in certain churches.1 Legalizing marriages solemnized in certain churches.
(1)1.—(1.) All banns of matrimony and marriages published or solemnized in the churches and places mentioned in the first column of the Schedule to this Act between the dates mentioned as respects each such church or place in the second column of that Schedule shall be as valid as if they had been published or solemnized in a church duly consecrated and licensed for marriages.
(2) (2.) All banns of matrimony and marriages published or solemnized in the church of St. Mary, Greenhithe, Kent, in respect of persons residing on board the two training ships moored in the Thames off Greenhithe before the seventeenth day of October one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine shall be as valid as if those two training ships had been comprised, as they now are, within the new parish of St. Mary, Greenhithe.
(3) (3.) A minister who has solemnized any marriage to which this section refers shall not be liable to any ecclesiastical censure or to any proceedings for penalties whatsoever by reason of having solemnized the marriage.
(4) (4.) The register of the marriages so solemnized or copies of the register shall be received in all courts as evidence of those marriages in the same manner as registers of marriages in parish churches or copies thereof are by law receivable in evidence.
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2. This Act may be cited as theMarriages Legalization Act, 1901.
