Marriage Act · s 3

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3.
Capacity to marry
(1) No two persons shall be capable of contracting a valid marriage unless the following conditions are fulfilled —
(a) both parties to the intended marriage have reached the age of 14 years;
(b) both parties to the intended marriage are not related to each other within the degrees of kindred set out in the First Schedule;
(c) if domiciled elsewhere than in the State, the parties to the intended marriage are not related to each other within a degree of kindred prohibited by the law of the country of their domicile;

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(d) neither party to the intended marriage is bound by a valid subsisting marriage to a third person;
(e) at the time of the marriage, neither party is a lunatic, an idiot or a person whose mental condition makes him or her incapable of understanding the nature of the marriage contract;
(f)
the parties to the intended marriage freely consent to marry each other:
Provided that absence of consent shall not be inferred merely from the fact that one party was induced by fraud to marry the other.
(2) A marriage shall be void unless all the conditions set out in subsection (1) are fulfilled.

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s 3Capacity to marry

(1)

No two persons shall be capable of contracting a valid marriage unless the following conditions are fulfilled —

(a)

both parties to the intended marriage have reached the age of 14 years;

(b)

both parties to the intended marriage are not related to each other within the degrees of kindred set out in the First Schedule;

(c)

if domiciled elsewhere than in the State, the parties to the intended marriage are not related to each other within a degree of kindred prohibited by the law of the country of their domicile;

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(d)

neither party to the intended marriage is bound by a valid subsisting marriage to a third person;

(e)

at the time of the marriage, neither party is a lunatic, an idiot or a person whose mental condition makes him or her incapable of understanding the nature of the marriage contract;

(f)

the parties to the intended marriage freely consent to marry each other:

Provided that absence of consent shall not be inferred merely from the fact that one party was induced by fraud to marry the other.

(2)

A marriage shall be void unless all the conditions set out in subsection (1) are fulfilled.