2 Marriage according to religious rites: no compulsion to solemnize etc
Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 (2013 c 30) | Legislation

Religious protection

2  Marriage according to religious rites: no compulsion to solemnize etc

(1)     A person may not be compelled by any means (including by the enforcement of a contract or a statutory or other legal requirement) to—

(a)     undertake an opt-in activity, or

(b)     refrain from undertaking an opt-out activity.

(2)     A person may not be compelled by any means (including by the enforcement of a contract or a statutory or other legal requirement)—

(a)     to conduct a relevant marriage,

(b)     to be present at, carry out, or otherwise participate in, a relevant marriage, or

(c)     to consent to a relevant marriage being conducted,

where the reason for the person not doing that thing is that the relevant marriage concerns a same sex couple.

(3)     In this section—

“opt-in activity” means an activity of the kind specified in an entry in the first column of the following table which falls to be undertaken for the purposes of any enactment specified in the corresponding entry in the second column;

“opt-out activity” means an activity which reverses, or otherwise modifies, the effect of an opt-in activity.

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