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Foreign Marriage Act 1947

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5Power to dispense with consents to marriages abroad.

(1)At the end of subsection (1) of section four of the Foreign Marriage Act, 1892 (which requires the like consents to be given to marriages under that Act as in the case of marriages in England) there shall be added the following proviso :

“Provided that, if a Secretary of State or, in such cases as may be prescribed, the Registrar-General of Births, Deaths, and Marriages in England, Scotland or Northern Ireland, is satisfied that the consent of any person whose consent is so required cannot be obtained by reason of absence or inaccessibility or by reason of his being under any disability, the Secretary of State or, as the case may be, the said Registrar-General may dispense with the necessity of obtaining his consent.”

(2)In section seven of the said Act, at the end of paragraph (c), there shall be added the words " or that the necessity of obtaining such consent has been dispensed with ".

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