Matrimonial Causes and Marriage Law (Ireland) Amendment Act, 1870

Avoidance of marriage in wilful violation of the Act.

39.      .      .      .       any marriage solemnized by a Protestant Episcopalian clergyman between a person who is a Protestant Episcopalian and a person who is not a Protestant Episcopalian, or by a Roman Catholic clergyman between a person who is a Roman Catholic and a person who is not a Roman Catholic, shall be void to all intents in cases where the parties to such marriage knowingly and wilfully intermarried without due notice to the registrar, or without certificate of notice duly issued, or without the presence of two or more credible witnesses, or in a building not set apart for the celebration of divine service according to the rites and ceremonies of the religion of the clergyman solemnizing such marriage.