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Provisional Order (Marriages) Act 1905

1905 CHAPTER 23 5 Edw 7

An Act to enable Provisional Orders to be made for removing any invalidity or doubt attaching to Marriages by reason of some informality.

1†Provisional orders for removing doubts as to validity of marriages.

(1)

F1Lord Chancellor may, in the case of marriages solemnised in England which appear to him to be invalid or of doubtful validity by reason of some informality, make F2an order for the purpose of removing the invalidity or doubt.

(2)

The draft of every such order shall be advertised, in such manner as the F3Lord Chancellor thinks fit, not less than one month before the order is made, and the F3Lord Chancellor shall consider all objections to the order sent to him in writing during that month, and shall, if it appears to him necessary, direct a local inquiry into the validity of any such objections.

F4(3)

An order of the F3Lord Chancellor under this Act shall be subject to special parliamentary procedure.

2 Short title.

This Act may be cited as the Provisional Order (Marriages) Act, 1905.