16 Provisions as to common licences
Marriage Act 1949 (1949 c 76) | Legislation

16  Provisions as to common licences

(1)     A common licence shall not be granted unless one of the persons to be married has sworn before a person having authority to grant such a licence—

(a)     that he or she believes that there is no impediment of kindred or alliance or any other lawful cause, nor any suit commenced in any court, to bar or hinder the solemnization of the marriage in accordance with the licence;

(b)     that one of the persons to be married has had his or her usual place of residence in the parish or other ecclesiastical district in which the marriage is to be solemnized for fifteen days immediately before the grant of the licence or that the parish church or authorised chapel in which the marriage is to be solemnized is the usual place of worship of those persons or of one of them;

(c)     . . ..

[(1A)     A common licence shall not be granted for the solemnization of a marriage mentioned in subsection (2) of section 1 of this Act unless—

(a)     the person having

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