Marriage Act 2015

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Number 35 of 2015

MARRIAGE ACT 2015

CONTENTS

PART 1

Preliminary and General

Section

1. Short title and commencement

2. Definitions

3. Expenses

PART 2

Impediments to Marriage

4. Amendment of section 2(2) of Act of 2004

5. Prohibited degrees of relationship

6. No impediment where subsisting civil partnership with each other

PART 3

Religious Bodies

7. Religious bodies

PART 4

Civil Partnership

8. Repeal of certain provisions of Act of 2004 relating to civil partnership

9. Amendment of section 46(1) of Act of 2004

10. Dissolution and transitional

11. Dissolution of civil partnership on marriage

PART 5

Recognition of Certain Foreign Relationships

12. Recognition of certain foreign marriages

13. Certain registered foreign relationships

PART 6

Consequential Amendments

14. Amendment of section 77(2) of Mental Treatment Act 1945

15. Amendment of Married Women’s Status Act 1957

16. Amendment of Guardianship of Infants Act 1964

17. Amendment of section 85 of Succession Act 1965

18. Amendment of First Schedule to Bankruptcy Act 1988

19. Amendment of section 8(2) of Judicial Separation and Family Law Reform Act 1989

20. Amendment of section 25 of Criminal Evidence Act 1992

21. Amendment of section 51 of Act of 2004

22. Amendment of section 26 of Civil Registration (Amendment) Act 2014

23. Amendment of Children and Family Relationships Act 2015

24. Amendment of Gender Recognition Act 2015

Acts Referred to

Bankruptcy Act 1988 (No. 27)

Children and Family Relationships Act 2015 (No. 9)

Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Act 2010 (No. 24)

Civil Registration (Amendment) Act 2014 (No. 34)

Civil Registration Act 2004 (No. 3)

Criminal Evidence Act 1992 (No. 12)

Family Law (Divorce) Act 1996 (No. 33)

Gender Recognition Act 2015 (No. 25)

Guardianship of Infants Act 1964 (No. 7)

Judicial Separation and Family Law Reform Act 1989 (No. 6)

Married Women’s Status Act 1957 (No. 5)

Mental Treatment Act 1945 (No. 19)

Succession Act 1965 (No. 27)

Number 35 of 2015

MARRIAGE ACT 2015

An Act to amend the Civil Registration Act 2004 to remove the impediment to marriage of the parties being of the same sex; to repeal certain provisions of Part 7A of that Act relating to registration of civil partnerships; to make provision in relation to religious bodies; to provide for the recognition of marriages under the law of a place other than the State; to amend the Succession Act 1965 , the Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Act 2010 and the Gender Recognition Act 2015 ; to amend other enactments and to provide for matters connected therewith.

[29 th October, 2015]

Be it enacted by the Oireachtas as follows: