3 Marriage according to rites of Church of England or the Church in Wales.

In the M1Marriage Act 1949 after section 5 there shall be inserted the following section—

5A Marriages between certain persons related by affinity.

No clergyman shall be obliged—

a

to solemnize a marriage which, apart from the Marriage (Prohibited Degrees of Relationship) Act 1986, would have been void by reason of the relationship of the persons to be married; or

b

to permit such a marriage to be solemnized in the church or chapel of which he is the minister.