75 Offences relating to solemnization of marriages
Marriage Act 1949 (1949 c 76) | Legislation

75  Offences relating to solemnization of marriages

(1)     Any person who knowingly and wilfully—

(a)     . . .

(b)     solemnizes a marriage according to the rites of the Church of England without banns of matrimony having been duly published (not being a marriage solemnized on the authority of a special licence, a common licence or [a marriage schedule]);

(c)     solemnizes a marriage according to the said rites (not being a marriage by special licence [or a marriage in pursuance of section 26(1)(dd) of this Act]) in any place other than a church or other building in which banns may be published;

(d)     solemnizes a marriage according to the said rites falsely pretending to be in Holy Orders;

shall be guilty of felony and shall be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding fourteen years.

(2)     Any person who knowingly and wilfully—

(a)     solemnizes a marriage (not being a marriage by special licence, a marriage according

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