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Foreign Marriage Act 1947
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6Certificates of marriages solemnised under local law.
At the end of section eighteen of the Foreign Marriage Act, 1892, (which enables a British consul or a person acting as such to register marriages solemnised in accordance with the local law, if satisfied by personal attendance that the marriage has been duly solemnised) there shall be added the following subsections :—
“(2)In the case of such marriages solemnised as aforesaid at which a British consul, or person authorised to act as British consul, has not attended, His Majesty may by Order in Council provide in such classes of cases, and subject to such conditions, as may be prescribed by the Order—
(a)for the transmission to and receipt by the Registrars-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland, respectively, of certificates of such marriages issued in accordance with the local law ; and
(b)for the issue by those Registrars-General, on payment of such fees as may be prescribed by the Order, of certified copies of such certificates received by them, and for enabling such certified copies to be received in evidence.
(3)Any Order in Council made under the foregoing provisions of this section may be varied or revoked by a subsequent Order in Council, and any Order in Council made under this section shall be laid forthwith before each House of Parliament.”
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