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Marriage Act 2015 (No. 35)Introductory TextActs Referred toPart 1 Preliminary and general (ss. 1-3)1. Short title and commencement2. Definitions3. ExpensesPart 2 Impediments to marriage (ss. 4-6)4. Amendment of section 2(2) of Act of 20045. Prohibited degrees of relationship6. No impediment where subsisting civil partnership with each otherPart 3 Religious bodies (s. 7)7. Religious bodiesPart 4 Civil Partnership (ss. 8-11)8. Repeal of certain provisions of Act of 2004 relating to civil partnership9. Amendment of section 46(1) of Act of 200410. Dissolution and transitional11. Dissolution of civil partnership on marriagePart 5 Recognition of certain foreign relationships (ss. 12-13)12. Recognition of certain foreign marriages13. Certain registered foreign relationshipsPart 6 Consequential amendments (ss. 14-24)14. Amendment of section 77(2) of Mental Treatment Act 194515. Amendment of Married Women's Status Act 195716. Amendment of Guardianship of Infants Act 196417. Amendment of section 85 of Succession Act 196518. Amendment of First Schedule to Bankruptcy Act 198819. Amendment of section 8(2) of Judicial Separation and Family Law Reform Act 198920. Amendment of section 25 of Criminal Evidence Act 199221. Amendment of section 51 of Act of 200422. Amendment of section 26 of Civil Registration (Amendment) Act 201423. Amendment of Children and Family Relationships Act 201524. Amendment of Gender Recognition Act 2015
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Version date: 29 October 2015 - onwards

Introductory Text

Number 35 of 2015

An Act to amend the Civil Registration Act 2004 to remove the impediment to marriage of the parties being of the same sex; to repeal certain provisions of Part 7A of that Act relating to registration of civil partnerships; to make provision in relation to religious bodies; to provide for the recognition of marriages under the law of a place other than the State; to amend the Succession Act 1965, the Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Act 2010 and the Gender Recognition Act 2015; to amend other enactments and to provide for matters connected therewith.

[29th October, 2015]

Be it enacted by the Oireachtas as follows:

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