Marriage Act 2015

Amendment of section 51 of Act of 2004

21. Section 51 of the Act of 2004 is amended—

(a) in subsection (4)(b), by—

(i) the substitution of “declaration by each of the parties to the marriage” for “declaration by the parties to the marriage”, and

(ii) the substitution of “to the effect that each of them accepts the other as a husband, a wife or a spouse, as the case may be” for “to the effect that they accept each other as husband and wife”,

and

(b) by the substitution of the following subsection for subsection (7) —

“(7) The parties to a marriage solemnised in accordance with this Act shall be taken to be married to each other when each of them has made a declaration in the presence of the other, the registered solemniser and the two witnesses that each of them accepts the other as a husband, a wife or a spouse, as the case may be.”.