PART IIIMARRIAGE
Restrictions on marriage
Prohibited degrees of relationship18
1
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;
c
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
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.