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Confirm a Provisional Order made by one of His A.D. 1926.
Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State under

the Marriages Validity (Provisional Orders) Acts
1905 and 1924.

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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 15 annexed is hereby confirmed.

Schedule confirmed.

2. This Act may be cited as the Provisional Order Short title. (Marriages) Confirmation Act 1926.

A.D. 1926.

SCHEDULE.

WHEREAS power is given to a Secretary of State by the Mar-
riages 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 informality 5
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 mar-
riages to which the Order relates :

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And whereas the church of St. Mary Childwick Green in the parish of St. Michael St. Albans in the county of Hertford and the diocese of St. Albans was duly consecrated for the performance of divine service on the fourteenth day of June one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one but it does not appear that the 15 said church of St. Mary has ever been licensed for the solemnization of marriages:

And whereas divers marriages have nevertheless been solemnized in the said church :

And whereas it is expedient in the circumstances aforesaid 20 to remove all doubt touching the validity of marriages solemnized at the said church of St. Mary Childwick Green and to make certain supplemental incidental and consequential provisions :

Now therefore I the Right Honourable Sir William JoynsonHicks Baronet one of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of 25 State in pursuance of the powers conferred on me by the said Marriages Validity (Provisional Orders) Acts 1905 and 1924 do hereby order that on and after the date of the Act of Parliament confirming this Order the following provisions shall have effect :

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(1) All banns of matrimony and marriages published and
solemnized in the church of St. Mary Childwick Green in
the parish of St. Michael St. Albans in the county of
Hertford and the diocese of St. Albans shall be deemed
to have been as valid as if they had been published and 35
solemnized in a church in which such banns might be
published and marriages solemnized lawfully:

(2) A minister who has solemnized any marriage referred to
in the first paragraph of this Order shall not be liable
to any proceedings for penalties whatsoever or to any 40
ecclesiastical censure by reason of having solemnized
such marriage:

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(3) The registers of the marriages so solemnized or copies A.D. 1926.
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 fourth day of August one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five. W. JOYNSON-HICKS.