SCHEDULE Consequential and minor amendments relating to Part II

Matrimonial Proceedings (Polygamous Marriages) Act 1972 (c.38)

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Section 2 of the Matrimonial Proceedings (Polygamous Marriages) Act 1972 (matrimonial relief etc. in relation to polygamous marriages: Scotland) shall be amended as follows.

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In subsection (1), for the words “the marriage” onwards there shall be substituted the words “ either party to the marriage is, or has during the subsistence of the marriage been, married to more than one person ”.

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For subsection (3) there shall be substituted—

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Provision may be made by rules of court—

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for requiring notice of proceedings brought by virtue of this section to be served on any additional spouse of a party to the marriage in question; and

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for conferring on any such additional spouse the right to be heard in the proceedings,

in such cases as may be specified in the rules.