Marriages (Ireland) Act 1844
MARRIAGES (IRELAND) ACT 1844 | ||
CAP. LXXXI. | ||
An Act for Marriages in Ireland; and for registering such Marriages. [9th August 1844.] | ||
After 31st of March 1845 all Rules prescribed by the Rubrick to continue to be observed. | ||
Marriages shall be solemnized on Production of Registrar’s Certificate. | ||
‘WHEREAS it is expedient to amend the Law of Marriages in Ireland, and to provide the Means for a Register of the Marriages of Her Majesty’s Subjects in that Part of the United Kingdom:’ Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That after the Thirty-first Day of March in the Year One thousand eight hundred and forty-five all the Rules prescribed by the Rubrick concerning the solemnizing of Marriages shall continue to be duly observed, except as herein-after provided, by every Person in Holy Orders of the United Church of England and Ireland who shall solemnize any Marriage in Ireland : Provided always, that the giving of Notice to the Registrar and the Isssue of the Registrar’s Certificate for Marriage without Licence, as herein-after mentioned, may be used and shall stand instead of the Publication of Banns, to all Intents and Purposes, where no such Publication shall have been made; and every Person in Holy Orders of the United Church of England and Ireland shall be bound to solemnize Marriage on Production of such Certificate, in like Manner as he is required to do by any Law or Canon now in force, after due Publication of Banns, so nevertheless that the Church wherein any Marriage according to the Rites of the United Church of England and Ireland shall so be solemnized shall be within the District of the Registrar by whom such Certificate as aforesaid shall have been issued. |