Marriage and Registration Act, 1856

Notice of Marriage without Licence may be given in Ireland, if One of the Parties reside there.

VII. In every Case in which One of the Parties intending Marriage without Licence, under the Provisions of any of the said recited Acts or of this Act, shall dwell in Ireland, the Party so dwelling in Ireland shall give Notice in the Form there used in that Behalf or to the like Effect to the Registrar of the District in Ireland within which such Party shall have dwelt for not less than Seven Days then next preceding, and shall state therein the Name and Surname and the Profession and Condition and Age of each of the Parties intending Marriage, and also the Dwelling Place of each of them, and the Time, not being less than Seven Days, during which he or she shall have dwelt therein, and also the Church or other Building in which the Marriage is to be solemnized, provided that if either Party shall have dwelt in the Place stated in the Notice as his or her Dwelling Place more than One Month it may be stated that he or she hath dwelt therein One Month and upwards; and such Notice shall be dealt with in the Manner and such Certificate for Marriage shall be given by such Registrar in the Mode respectively prescribed in an Act passed in the Session holden in the Seventh and Eighth Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, Chapter Eighty-one, intituled An Act for Marriages in Ireland, and for registering such Marriages, as amended by another Act passed in the Session holden in the Ninth and Tenth Years of the same Reign, Chapter Seventy-two, intituled An Act to amend the Act for Marriages in Ireland, and for registering such Marriages, provided that in such Case the Certificate for Marriage shall not be issued before the Expiration of Twenty-one Days next after the Day of the Entry of such Notice, as in the first of the said Two last-mentioned Acts is provided; and from and after the issuing of such Certificate the Production of the same to any Person duly authorized under the Provisions of this Act to solemnize a Marriage shall be as valid and effectual for authorizing such Person to solemnize such Marriage as the Production of a Certificate for Marriage of a Superintendent Registrar of a District in England would be under any or either of the said Three firstly herein-before recited Acts, if the Party giving such Notice were resident within such District, and the other Party to such intended Marriage were also resident within another Superintendent Registrar’s District in England; and where Marriages have since the passing of the said Act for Marriages in Ireland, and for registering such Marriages, been solemnized in England between Parties, one of whom was resident in Ireland, under Certificates, of which one was the Certificate of the Registrar of the District in Ireland within which one of the Parties had dwelt for not less than Seven Days, and the other the Certificate of the Superintendent Registrar of the District in England within which the other Party had dwelt for not less than Seven Days, such Marriages are hereby declared to be and to have been valid in the same Manner as if the Parties had been respectively resident for not less than Seven Days in the respective Districts of Two Superintendent Registrars in England, and like Certificates had been issued by both such Superintendent Registrars.