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				</ukm:Metadata><Primary><PrimaryPrelims DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo5/6-7/21/introduction" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/Geo5/6-7/21/introduction" RestrictExtent="E+W+S+N.I." RestrictStartDate="2019-05-26"><Title>Marriage of British Subjects (Facilities) Amendment Act 1916</Title><Number>1916 c.21</Number><LongTitle>An Act to amend the Marriage of British Subjects (Facilities) Act, 1915.</LongTitle><DateOfEnactment><DateText>[19th July 1916]<CommentaryRef Ref="c5804321"/><CommentaryRef Ref="c5804331"/><CommentaryRef Ref="c5804341"/><CommentaryRef Ref="key-4d1ed1872c7a689fcadb1f973243e9e8"/></DateText></DateOfEnactment></PrimaryPrelims><Body DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo5/6-7/21/body" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/Geo5/6-7/21/body" NumberOfProvisions="2" RestrictStartDate="2021-05-04"><P1group RestrictStartDate="2021-05-04"><Title> Amendment of 5 &amp; 6 Geo. 5. c. 40. s. 1.</Title><P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo5/6-7/21/section/1" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/Geo5/6-7/21/section/1" id="section-1"><Pnumber>1</Pnumber><P1para><Text>If His Majesty is satisfied that, for the purposes of a marriage to be solemnized or contracted in any part of His Dominions outside the United Kingdom between a British subject resident in that part and a British subject resident in  <Substitution ChangeId="key-fc4f26f75985a058bb0fcef20d270a82-1625227360975" CommentaryRef="key-fc4f26f75985a058bb0fcef20d270a82">Scotland</Substitution>  or Ireland, no notice of the marriage is, under the law in force in that part of His Dominions, required on the part of the person resident in  <Substitution ChangeId="key-fc4f26f75985a058bb0fcef20d270a82-1625227390539" CommentaryRef="key-fc4f26f75985a058bb0fcef20d270a82">Scotland</Substitution>  or Ireland, His Majesty may by Order in Council declare that section one of the <CommentaryRef Ref="c5804351"/>Marriage of British Subjects (Facilities) Act, 1915, shall apply to that part of His Dominions, notwithstanding that the law in force in that part does not make provision for the recognition of certificates for marriage issued in  <Substitution ChangeId="key-fc4f26f75985a058bb0fcef20d270a82-1625227427509" CommentaryRef="key-fc4f26f75985a058bb0fcef20d270a82">Scotland</Substitution>  and Ireland, and of certificates of proclamation of banns issued in Scotland, as sufficient notice in respect of such marriages as aforesaid, provided that the other conditions required by that section are fulfilled.</Text></P1para></P1></P1group><P1group><Title> Short title and citation.</Title><P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo5/6-7/21/section/2" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/Geo5/6-7/21/section/2" id="section-2"><Pnumber>2</Pnumber><P1para><Text>This Act may be cited as the Marriage of British Subjects (Facilities) Amendment Act, 1916, and the Marriage of British Subjects (Facilities) Act, 1915, and this Act may be cited together as the Marriage of British Subjects (Facilities) Acts, 1915 and 1916.</Text></P1para></P1></P1group></Body></Primary><Commentaries><Commentary id="c5804321" Type="C"><Para><Text>Words of enactment omitted under authority of <Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1948/62" id="c00001" Year="1948" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="62" Title="Statute Law Revision Act 1948">Statute Law Revision Act 1948 (c. 62)</Citation>, <CitationSubRef id="c00002" CitationRef="c00001" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1948/62/section/3" Operative="true" SectionRef="section-3">s. 3</CitationSubRef></Text></Para></Commentary><Commentary id="c5804331" Type="C"><Para><Text>This Act is not necessarily in the form in which it has effect in Northern Ireland</Text></Para></Commentary><Commentary id="c5804341" Type="C"><Para><Text>Act repealed (S.) by <Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1977/15" id="c00003" Year="1977" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="15" Title="Marriage (Scotland) Act 1977">Marriage (Scotland) Act 1977 (c. 15)</Citation>, <CitationSubRef id="c00004" CitationRef="c00003" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1977/15/section/28/2" SectionRef="section-28-2">s. 28(2)</CitationSubRef>, <CitationSubRef id="c00005" CitationRef="c00003" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1977/15/schedule/3" Operative="true" SectionRef="schedule-3">Sch. 3</CitationSubRef> (subject to a saving in s. 27(3) in relation to marriages before 1.1.1978)</Text></Para></Commentary><Commentary id="c5804351" Type="M"><Para><Text><Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1915/40" id="c00006" Year="1915" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="40">1915 c. 40</Citation>. </Text></Para></Commentary><Commentary id="key-4d1ed1872c7a689fcadb1f973243e9e8" Type="C"><Para><Text>Act: power to amend conferred (26.5.2019) by <Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2019/12" id="cg6nzp1f3-00007" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Year="2019" Number="12" Title="Civil Partnerships, Marriages and Deaths (Registration etc) Act 2019">Civil Partnerships, Marriages and Deaths (Registration etc) Act 2019 (c. 12)</Citation>, <CitationSubRef id="cg6nzp1f3-00008" CitationRef="cg6nzp1f3-00007" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2019/12/section/5/1/a" SectionRef="section-5-1-a" Operative="true">ss. 5(1)(a)</CitationSubRef>, <CitationSubRef id="cg6nzp1f3-00008n1" CitationRef="cg6nzp1f3-00007" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2019/12/section/6/3" SectionRef="section-6-3" Operative="true">6(3)</CitationSubRef></Text></Para></Commentary><Commentary id="key-fc4f26f75985a058bb0fcef20d270a82" Type="F"><Para><Text>Word in <CitationSubRef id="c88li6d64-00006" SectionRef="section-1" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/Geo5/6-7/21/section/1">s. 1</CitationSubRef> substituted (4.5.2021) by <Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2021/411" id="c88li6d64-00007" Class="UnitedKingdomStatutoryInstrument" Year="2021" Number="411" Title="The Registration of Marriages Regulations 2021">The Registration of Marriages Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/411)</Citation>, <CitationSubRef id="c88li6d64-00008" CitationRef="c88li6d64-00007" SectionRef="regulation-1-2" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2021/411/regulation/1/2">regs. 1(2)</CitationSubRef>, <CitationSubRef id="c88li6d64-00009" CitationRef="c88li6d64-00007" SectionRef="regulation-9" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2021/411/regulation/9" Operative="true">9</CitationSubRef> (with <CitationSubRef id="c88li6d64-00010" CitationRef="c88li6d64-00007" SectionRef="schedule-2" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2021/411/schedule/2">Sch. 2</CitationSubRef>)</Text></Para></Commentary></Commentaries></Legislation>