Marriage and Registration Act, 1856
MARRIAGE AND REGISTRATION ACT 1856 | ||
CAP. CXIX. | ||
An Act to amend the Provisions of the Marriage and Registration Acts. [29th July 1856.] | ||
6&7 W.4. c. 85 | ||
1 Vict. c. 22. | ||
3&4 Vict. c. 72 | ||
‘Whereas an Act was passed in the Session holden in the Sixth and Seventh Years of the Reign of King William the Fourth, Chapter Eighty-five, intituled An Act for Marriages in England; and another Act was passed in the First Year of the Reign of Her Majesty, Chapter Twenty-two, intituled An Act to explain and amend Two Acts, passed in the last Session of Parliament for Marriages, and for registering Births, Deaths, and Marriages in England; and another Act was passed in the Session holden in the Third and Fourth Years of Her Majesty, Chapter Seventy-two, intituled An Act to provide for the Solemnization of Marriages in the District in or near to which the Parties reside: And whereas it is expedient to alter and amend the Provisions of the said recited Acts, so far as is herein-after provided:’ Be it therefore enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows: |