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United Kingdom legislation
Nullity of Marriage Act 1971
Act of Parliament
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long title
An Act to restate, with certain alterations, the grounds on which a marriage is void or voidable and the bars to the grant of a decree of nullity on the ground that a marriage is voidable; to alter the effect of decrees of nullity in respect of voidable marriages; and to abolish certain remaining bars to the grant of matrimonial relief.
Citation
1971 c. 44
Dates
Royal assent
1 July 1971
Commencement
1 August 1971
The Nullity of Marriage Act 1971 (c. 44) was an act that defined valid reasons for annulment according to British law. This act was the first time in British law that marriage was explicitly defined by statute as being between a male and a female. A marriage could therefore be annulled if the partners were not respectively male and female.
The provisions of the act were incorporated into the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 and the act itself was repealed. The provision that a marriage must be between a male and a female has subsequently been overturned by the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013.
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