Deceased Brother's Widow's Marriage Act, 1921

Marriage with a deceased brother’s widow not to be void as a civil contract except in certain cases.

7 Edw. 7. c. 47.

1.—(1) Section one of the Deceased Wife’s Sister’s Marriage Act, 1907, shall be read and construed as if after the words “deceased wife’s sister,” where they occur in such section, there were inserted “or between a man and his deceased brother’s widow.”

(2) Section three of the said Act shall be read and construed as though—

(a) in subsection (1) thereof, after the words “wives’ sisters,” there were inserted the words “or husbands’ brothers’ wives”; and

(b) in subsection (2) thereof, at the end, there were inserted the words “or the divorced wife of his brother, or the wife of his brother who has divorced his brother, during the lifetime of such brother.”

(3) Section four of the said Act shall be read and construed as if at the end thereof there were inserted the words “or his deceased brother’s widow.”

(4) Section five of the said Act shall be read and construed as though at the end thereof there were inserted the words “and the word ‘brother’ shall include a brother of the half blood.”

The said Act as amended by this Act shall, so far as it relates to marriages between a man and his deceased brother’s widow, have effect as though it had been passed at the date of the passing of this Act.