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.”