1Publication of banns, etc. in usual place of worship or by layman.

(1)The following provisions of the [12, 13 & 14 Geo. 6. c. 76.] Marriage Act, 1949 (which, being among the provisions specified in the Sixth Schedule to that Act, do not extend to Wales or Monmouthshire), that is to say,—

• subsection (4) of section six

• section nine

• subsection (2) of section eleven

• paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of section fifteen

• paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of section sixteen, so far as it relates to marriages to be solemnized in the usual place of worship of one of the parties

• subsection (3) of section thirty-five

• section seventy-two

shall extend to Wales and Monmouthshire ; and accordingly the said Sixth Schedule shall be amended by the omission of the references to those provisions.

(2)In its application to Wales and Monmouthshire section seventy-two of the Marriage Act, 1949, shall have effect as if it defined the expression " church electoral roll" as meaning an electoral roll of a parish kept in accordance with the constitution and regulations of the Church in Wales for the time being in force.

2Meaning of Wales and Monmouthshire.

Any parish which is treated for the purposes of the Welsh Church Act, 1914, as being wholly within or wholly without Wales or Monmouthshire shall be so treated also for the purposes of the Marriage Act, 1949, and of this Act.

3Short title and citation.

(1)This Act may be cited as the Marriage (Wales and Monmouthshire) Act, 1962.

(2)This Act, the Marriage Acts, 1949 to 1960, and the [7 & 8 Eliz. 2. c. 13.] Marriage (Secretaries of Synagogues) Act, 1959, may be cited together as the Marriage Acts, 1949 to 1962.