3Consent of Sovereign required to certain Royal MarriagesU.K.
(1)A person who (when the person marries) is one of the 6 persons next in the line of succession to the Crown must obtain the consent of Her Majesty before marrying.
(2)Where any such consent has been obtained, it must be—
(a)signified under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom,
(b)declared in Council, and
(c)recorded in the books of the Privy Council.
(3)The effect of a person's failure to comply with subsection (1) is that the person and the person's descendants from the marriage are disqualified from succeeding to the Crown.
(4)The Royal Marriages Act 1772 (which provides that, subject to certain exceptions, a descendant of King George II may marry only with the consent of the Sovereign) is repealed.
(5)A void marriage under that Act is to be treated as never having been void if—
(a)neither party to the marriage was one of the 6 persons next in the line of succession to the Crown at the time of the marriage,
(b)no consent was sought under section 1 of that Act, or notice given under section 2 of that Act, in respect of the marriage,
(c)in all the circumstances it was reasonable for the person concerned not to have been aware at the time of the marriage that the Act applied to it, and
(d)no person acted, before the coming into force of this section, on the basis that the marriage was void.
(6)Subsection (5) applies for all purposes except those relating to the succession to the Crown.
Commencement Information
I1S. 3 in force at 26.3.2015 by S.I. 2015/894, art. 2