Marriages Act, 1972

Provisions for certain marriages where neither party was resident in appropriate parish or district.

3.—No marriage which was solemnised before the commencement of this section in—

(a) a church of the Church of Ireland, being a church which existed immediately before the passing of the Marriages (Ireland) Act, 1844, or

(b) a church or chapel licensed under section 33 of the Marriages (Ireland) Act, 1844, or section 34 of the Matrimonial Causes and Marriage Law (Ireland) Amendment Act, 1870,

shall be or be deemed ever to have been invalid or ineffective by reason only of the fact that neither of the parties was resident in—

(i) in the case of a marriage solemnised in a church referred to in paragraph (a) of this section—the parish or district attached to the church, or

(ii) in the case of a marriage solemnised in a church or chapel referred to in paragraph (b) of this section—the district specified in the licence of the church or chapel.