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MARRIAGE (SOCIETY OF FRIENDS) ACT 1860

MARRIAGE (SOCIETY OF FRIENDS) ACT 1860 - LONG TITLE

An Act to amend the Acts relating to Marriages in England and
Ireland, by extending certain Provisions thereof to Persons professing
with the Society of Friends called Quakers.{1}
[15th May 1860]
Preamble, which recites the Marriages (I) Act 1844 (c.81), rep. by
SLR 1892

MARRIAGE (SOCIETY OF FRIENDS) ACT 1860 - SECT 1
Marriages of Quakers where one only or where neither of the parties
is a member of the Society of Friends.

1. From and after the thirtieth day of June one thousand eight
hundred and sixty marriages may be contracted and solemnized
according to the usages of the said Society of Friends, commonly
called Quakers, in... Ireland..., not only in the case provided for
by the said recited provisions, but also in cases where one only
or where neither of the parties to the marriage shall be a member
of the said Society:... provided also, that no person who is not a
member of the said Society shall be married according to the usages
thereof unless he or she shall be authorized thereto under or in
pursuance of some general rule or rules of the said Society in...
Ireland...; and a copy of such general rule or rules purporting to
be signed by the recording clerk for the time being of the said
Society ... in Dublin... shall be admitted as evidence of such
general rule or rules in all proceedings touching the validity of
any such marriage.

MARRIAGE (SOCIETY OF FRIENDS) ACT 1860 - SECT 2
Enactments now in force to extend to every marriage contracted under
the authority of this Act.

2. All the enactments now in force, whether contained in the said
recited Acts or in any other Act or Acts of Parliament, and
relating to marriages contracted and solemnized according to the
usages of the said Society in... Ireland..., and to the registration
thereof, so far as the same are not inconsistent with this Act,
shall extend and be applicable to every marriage contracted and
solemnized by the authority of this Act in... Ireland..., as fully
and effectually as if the same enactments were repeated herein.