Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 Explanatory Notes

Part 2 – Marriage under foreign law: certificates of no impediment

185.Part 2 (paragraph 7) provides a power for Her Majesty by Order in Council to legislate to make provision for the issue of certificates of no impediment to marriage where a United Kingdom national wishes to marry overseas according to local laws if that country or territory is prescribed in the Order in Council. The Act contains a power to extend this to other “prescribed” persons.

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