PART 2 U.K.Marriage: Same-sex Couples

Marriage overseas: consular, and armed forces, marriages U.K.

11.—(1) The Foreign Marriage Act 1892(1) is repealed.

(2) In the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013(2), paragraphs 4, 5, 10 and 11 of Schedule 6 extend also to Northern Ireland.

(3) Accordingly, in section 20 of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 (extent)—

(a) in subsection (3)(b), omit “and paragraphs 4, 5, 10 and 11 of Schedule 6”, and

(b) in subsection (8), at the end insert “(but see regulations 2 and 11 of the Marriage (Same-sex Couples) and Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2019)”.

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 11 in force at 13.1.2020, see reg. 1(2)

(1)

1892 c.23 (55 & 56 Vict.). The 1892 Act was repealed, so far as extending to England and Wales, and Scotland, by section 13(2) of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013.

(2)

2013 c.30.