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DECEASED BROTHER'S WIDOW'S MARRIAGE ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1924

DECEASED BROTHER'S WIDOW'S MARRIAGE ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1924 -
LONG TITLE

An Act to remove doubts as to the application of the Deceased
Brother's Widow's Marriage Act, 1921, to Northern Ireland.
[7th November 1924]
Application of 1921 c.24 to Northern Ireland.

DECEASED BROTHER'S WIDOW'S MARRIAGE ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1924 -
SECT 1

1. It is hereby declared that the Deceased Brother's Widow's
Marriage Act, 1921, applies to Northern Ireland, and the said Act
shall be deemed to have applied to Northern Ireland as from the
passing thereof:

Provided that in case, on or after the twenty-eighth day of July,
nineteen hundred and twenty-one and before the passing of this Act,
a marriage contracted between a man and his deceased brother's widow
shall have been annulled, or either party to such marriage shall
have contracted a further marriage during the lifetime of the other
party which would have been lawful except for such former marriage,
such former marriage shall be deemed to have become and to be void
upon and after the day upon which it was so annulled, or upon
which either party thereto contracted a further marriage as
aforesaid, and the validity of such further marriage shall not be
affected by such former marriage.

DECEASED BROTHER'S WIDOW'S MARRIAGE ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1924 -
SECT 2
Short title.

2. This Act may be cited as the Deceased Brother's Widow's Marriage
Act (Northern Ireland), 1924; and the Deceased Wife's Sister's
Marriage Act, 1907, the Deceased Brother's Widow's Marriage Act, 1921
and this Act may be cited together as the Marriage (Prohibited
Degrees of Relationship) Acts (Northern Ireland), 1907 to 1924.