CHAPTER
123
MARRIAGE OF BRITISH SUBJECTS FACILITIES |
ARRANGEMENT OF
SECTIONS |
SECTION |
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Facilities for marriages between British subjects
resident in The Bahamas and British subjects resident in the United Kingdom and
the Republic of Ireland. |
CHAPTER 123 |
MARRIAGE OF
BRITISH SUBJECTS FACILITIES |
An Act to
facilitate marriages between British subjects resident in The Bahamas and
British subjects resident in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. | 7 of 1917
1 of 1957 |
[Commencement 26th
June, 1971] |
1. This Act may be cited as the Marriage of British
Subjects Facilities Act. | Short title. |
2. (1) When a marriage is intended to be solemnized or
contracted in The Bahamas between a British subject resident in The Bahamas and
a British subject resident in the United Kingdom or Republic of Ireland, a
certificate for marriage lawfully issued in the United Kingdom or Republic of
Ireland, as the case may be, shall, in The Bahamas, have the same effect as a
certificate for marriage issued in The Bahamas by a registrar of marriages or
marriage officer. | Facilities for marriages between British subjects
resident in The Bahamas and British subjects resident in the United Kingdom and
the Republic of Ireland. |
(2) When a
marriage is intended to be solemnized or contracted in the United Kingdom or
Republic of Ireland between a British subject resident in the United Kingdom or
Republic of Ireland and a British subject resident in The Bahamas, a
registrar's certificate of due publication of notice to marry, or a marriage
officer's certificate of the due publication of banns, may be issued in The
Bahamas in the like manner as if the marriage was to be solemnized or
contracted under circumstances requiring the issue of such a certificate, and
as if both such British subjects were resident in The Bahamas. |
(3) For the
purposes of subsection (1) of this section the expression "certificate for
marriage lawfully issued" means- |
(a) in the case
of England and Wales, a certificate for marriage issued by a superintendent
registrar; |
(b) in the case
of Scotland, a certificate for marriage issued by a registrar or a certificate
of proclamation of banns: |
(c) in
the case of Northern Ireland or the Republic of Ireland, a certificate for
marriage issued by a registrar. |
(4) In this Act
the expression "the United Kingdom" means the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Northern Ireland. |