Marriage and Civil
Status (Amendment) (Jersey) Law 2008
A LAW to amend the Marriage and Civil
Status (Jersey) Law 2001.
Adopted by the
States 22nd November 2007
Sanctioned by
Order of Her Majesty in Council 12th February 2008
Registered by the
Royal Court 22nd
February 2008
THE STATES, subject to the sanction of Her Most Excellent Majesty in Council, have
adopted the following Law –
1 Interpretation
In this Law “the principal Law” means the Marriage and
Civil Status (Jersey) Law 2001[1].
2 Article
5 repealed
Article 5 of the principal Law is repealed.
3 Article
8 amended
In Article 8 of the principal Law –
(a) in
paragraph (4) for the words “Subject to paragraphs (5) and (6)”
there is substituted the words “Subject to paragraph (5)”; and
(b) paragraph
(6) is deleted.
4 Article
35 amended
Article 35(4) of the principal Law is deleted.
5 Schedule
3 amended
In Schedule 3 to the principal Law paragraph 2 is deleted.
6 Citation
and commencement
(1) This
Law may be cited as the Marriage and Civil Status (Amendment) (Jersey) Law
2008.
(2) It
shall come into force 7 days after it is registered.
m.n. de la haye
Greffier of the States