Marriages Act, 1972

Amendment of section 13 of Marriages (Ireland) Act, 1844, and section 2 of Marriage Law (Ireland) Amendment Act, 1863.

6.—In a case in which a notice or notices is or are required to be given pursuant to section 13 of the Marriages (Ireland) Act, 1844, that section and section 2 of the Marriage Law (Ireland) Amendment Act, 1863 , shall have effect subject to the proviso that it shall not be necessary that the church or other building stated in the notice or notices as the church or other building in which the marriage is intended to be solemnised, or that the church or other building in which the marriage is solemnised, shall be within the district within which one of the parties has dwelt for the time prescribed in the first of those sections if there is not a church or other building used by the religious denomination according to the usages of which the marriage is to be solemnised within—

(a) in case the parties have dwelt in the same district for the time prescribed by the first of those sections, that district, or

(b) in case the parties have dwelt in different districts for that time, either of those districts.