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Marriages Confirmation Act 1825

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Marriages Confirmation Act 1825

1825 CHAPTER 92

An Act to render valid Marriages solemnized in. certain Churches and Public Chapels in which Banns have not usually been published.

[5th July 1825]

WHEREAS since the making of an [26 G. 2. c. 33.] Act passed in the Twenty-sixth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Second, intituled An Act for the better preventing Clandestine Marriages, and since the making of an [44 G. 3. c. 77.] Act passed in the Forty-fourth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act to render valid certain Marriages solemnized in certain Churches and Public Chapels in which Banns had not usually been published, before or at the Time of passing an Act made in the Twenty-sixth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Second, intituled 'An Act for better preventing Clandestine Marriages,' divers Churches and Chapels have been erected and built within that Part of Great Britain called England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, which have been duly consecrated, and divers Marriages have been solemnized therein since the passing of the said last-mentioned Act ; but by reason that in such Churches and Chapels Banns of Matrimony had not usually been published before or at the Time of passing the said first-mentioned Act, nor any Authority obtained for solemnizing Marriages therein under the Provisions of an [4 G. 4. c. 76.] Act passed in the Fourth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled An Act for amending the Laws respecting the Solemnization of Marriages in England, such Marriages have been or may be deemed to be void :

May it therefore please Your Majesty that it may be enacted; and be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same,

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