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AI Summary of Schedule - Enactments Repealed

The document records specific repeals and textual removals in Irish marriage and legitimacy legislation: the Marriages (Ireland) Act 1844 (c.81) — partial repeals in section 9 and in sections 19 and 25, and in section 22 removal of wording concerning parties being of the full age of twenty-one or the consent of persons required by law; the Legitimacy Declaration Act (Ireland) 1868 (c.20) — section 1; and the Marriage Law (Ireland) Amendment Act 1863 (c.27) — in section 4 removal of words from 'and when either of the Parties intending marriage' to 'whose consent to such Marriage is by Law required;' and deletion of the fourth paragraph of Schedule (B).

It also records amendments to the Matrimonial Causes and Marriage Law (Ireland) Amendment Act 1870 (c.110) — in section 35 removal of the provision that 'Whenever a marriage shall not be had within three calendar months after the notice shall have been so given to the person so appointed as aforesaid, the notice, and any licence which may have been granted thereupon, shall be utterly void.' and excision of the age/consent wording, with reference to section 41; and later enactments: Married Women’s Status Act 1957 (No.5), section 12; Marriages Act 1972 (No.30), sections 1 and 18; and Judicial Separation and Family Law Reform Act 1989 (No.6), Part II (other than section 25) and sections 39 and 40.

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Version date: 1 August 1996 - onwards
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Schedule - Enactments Repealed

Section 3.

Year & Chapter or Number & Year Short Title Extent of Repeal
1844, c.81 Marriages (Ireland) Act,1844

In section 9, ", and that they are both of the full age of twenty-one years, or, when either of the parties shall be under the age of twenty-one years, that the consent of the person or persons whose consent to such marriage is required by law has been obtained thereto, or that there is no person having authority to give such consent, or that such party is a widower or widow, as the case may be"

Sections 19 and 25

In section 22, ", and that they are both of the full age of twenty-one years, or, where either of the parties shall be under the age of twenty-one years, that the consent of the person or persons whose consent to such marriage is required by law has been obtained thereto, or that there is no person having authority to give such consent, or that such party is a widower or widow, as the case may be"

1868, c.20 Legitimacy Declaration Act, (Ireland), 1868 Section 1
1863, c. 27 Marriage Law (Ireland) Amendment Act, 1863

In section 4, the words from "and when either of the Parties intending marriage" to "whose consent to such Marriage is by Law required;"

In Schedule (B), the fourth paragraph