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”.