Presented by Captain Hacking.

Order (No. 2).

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Confirm a Provisional Order made by one of A.D. 1926.
His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State
under the Marriages Validity (Provisional
Orders) Acts 1905 and 1924.

WE

HEREAS the Right Honourable Sir William Joynson-Hicks Baronet one of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State made the Provisional Order set out in the schedule hereunto annexed under

5 the provisions of the Marriages Validity (Provisional 5 Edw. 7. Orders) Acts 1905 and 1924:

c. 23.
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And whereas it is requisite that the said Order Geo. 5. c. 20. should be confirmed by Parliament:

Be it therefore enacted by the King's most Excellent 10 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 as follows:

1. The Order as set out in the schedule hereunto Order in

schedule confirmed

15 annexed is hereby confirmed.

2. This Act may be cited as the Provisional Order Short title. (Marriages) Confirmation (No. 2) Act 1926.

A.D. 1926.

Order (No. 2).

SCHEDULE.

WHEREAS power is given to a Secretary of State by the Marriages Validity (Provisional Orders) Acts 1905 and 1924 in the case of marriages solemnized in England which appear to him to be invalid or of doubtful validity by reason of some 5 informality to make a Provisional Order for the purpose of removing the invalidity or doubt and to include in such Order supplemental incidental and consequential provisions including provisions for relieving from liability ministers who have solemnized the marriages to which the Order relates :

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And whereas by an Instrument dated the seventeenth day of December one thousand nine hundred and three under the common seal of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners the new church at Shaldon in the parish of Saint Nicholas in the county of Devon and the diocese of Exeter was substituted for the 15 old church of Saint Nicholas situate within and until that date the parish church of the said parish :

And whereas divers marriages have nevertheless been solemnized in the said old church of Saint Nicholas between the seventeenth day of December one thousand nine hundred 20 and three and the first day of November one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five:

And whereas it is expedient in the circumstances aforesaid to remove all doubt touching the validity of marriages solemnized at the said old church of Saint Nicholas and to make certain 25 supplemental incidental and consequential provisions :

Now therefore I the Right Honourable Sir William Joynson-Hicks Baronet one of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State in pursuance of the powers conferred on me by the said Marriages Validity (Provisional Orders) Acts 1905 and 30 1924 do hereby order that on and after the date of the Act of Parliament confirming this Order the following provisions shall have effect :

(1) All banns of matrimony and marriages published and
solemnized between the seventeenth day of December 35
one thousand nine hundred and three and the first
day of November one thousand nine hundred and
twenty-five in the old church of Saint Nicholas in
the parish of Saint Nicholas in the county of Devon
and the diocese of Exeter shall be deemed to have 40
been as valid as if they had been published and
solemnized in a church in which such banns might
be published and marriages solemnized lawfully:

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Order (No. 2).

(2) A minister who has solemnized any marriage referred A.D. 1926.
to in the first paragraph of this Order shall not be
liable to any proceedings for penalties whatsoever
or to any ecclesiastical censure by reason of having
solemnized such marriage:

(3) The registers of the marriages so solemnized or copies
of the registers shall be received in all courts as
evidence of those marriages in the same manner as
registers of marriages duly solemnized or copies thereof
are by law receivable in evidence.

Given under my hand this fifth day of May one thousand nine hundred and twenty-six.

W. JOYNSON-HICKS.

Home Office,

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Whitehall.

Presented by Secretary Sir William Joynson-Hicks.

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