PART IIIMARRIAGE

Restrictions on marriage

Prohibited degrees of relationship18

1

A marriage solemnizedF1 between a person and any person mentioned in the list in Part 1 of the following TableF1, is void:

TableF1PART IF1 Prohibited degrees of relationshipF1

F1F1Adoptive childF1

F1Adoptive parentF1

F1ChildF1

F1Former adoptive childF1

F1Former adoptive parentF1

F1GrandparentF1

F1GrandchildF1

F1ParentF1

F1Parent's siblingF1

F1SiblingF1

F1Sibling's childF1

F1PART IIF1F1 Degrees of affinity referred to in paragraphs (2A) and (2B)F1

F1Child of former civil partnerF1

F1Child of former spouseF1

F1Former civil partner of grandparentF1

F1Former civil partner of parentF1

F1Former spouse of grandparentF1

F1Former spouse of parentF1

F1Grandchild of former civil partnerF1

F1Grandchild of former spouseF1

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2

In that Table—

a

any reference to an adoptive relationship or a former adoptive relationship is to a relationship which arises or arose in consequence of—

i

an order authorising an adoption made (whether before or after the commencement of this Article) in any part of the United Kingdom, in the Isle of Man or in any of the Channel Islands, or

ii

a foreign adoption as defined in section 4(3) of the [1969 c. 22 (N.I.).] Adoption (Hague Convention) Act (Northern Ireland) 1969;

b

any reference to aF1 siblingF1 includes one of the half blood as well as of the whole blood;

c

F3in Part II,F3 any reference to a relationship which is one of affinity is to a relationship deduced through a marriageF1 or civil partnershipF1 which has been terminated by dissolution or by death;

d

any reference to a person of a particular relationship includes a person who would rank as being of that relationship if he, or some other person through whom the relationship is deduced, had been born legitimate.

F32A

Subject to paragraph (2B), a marriage solemnizedF1 between a person and any person mentioned in the list in Part 2 of that TableF1, is void.

2B

Any such marriage as is mentioned in paragraph (2A) is not void by reason only of affinity if both the parties to the marriage have attained the age of 21 at the time of the marriage and the younger party has not at any time before attaining the age of 18 been a child of the family in relation to the other party.

2C

F4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

2D

F5. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

2DA

F6. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

2DB

F6. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

2DC

F6. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

2E

In this Article “child of the family”, in relation to any person, means a child who has lived in the same household as that person and been treated by that person as a child of his family.

F33

A marriage between person not within the degrees of relationship to whichF3 paragraph (1) F7or (2A)F7 applies or a marriage to which paragraph F8(2B)F8 appliesF3 is void, if either of those persons is at the time of the marriage domiciled in a country other than Northern Ireland and under the law of that country there cannot be a valid marriage between them because of their relationship to each other.