Marriages Act, 1972

Amendment of section 36 of Matrimonial Causes and Marriage Law (Ireland) Amendment Act, 1870.

13.—Section 36 of the Matrimonial Causes and Marriage Law (Ireland) Amendment Act, 1870, is hereby amended by the insertion of “or one only of them is a Protestant Episcopalian,” before “any bishop” and by the insertion of “and, in case of the absence from illness or other reasonable cause of a bishop or a vacancy in a see, the grant of such licences may be effected by the person authorised by the laws of the said Church to exercise the functions of bishop” after “episcopal superintendence”.