Marriage Act Amendment Act 1915 (WA)

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GEORGII QUINTI REGIS,

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No. 48 of 1915.

AN ACT to amend the Marriage Act, 1894.

[Assented to, 19th October, 1915.]

Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parlia- BE it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and

ment assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

1. This Act may be cited as the Marriage Act Amendment Act, Short title.

1915.

2. The following section is hereby inserted in the Marriage Insertion of new

Act, 1894 (hereinafter called the principal Act), after section thirty-	Section after Sec- tion 32 of principal
two thereof, that is to say:-	Act.

32A. No marriage heretofore or hereafter contracted Marriage with

between a woman and her deceased husband's brother	deceased husband 'a
shall be deemed to have been or shall be void or void-	brother.
able by reason only of such affinity: Provided tha

(a.) if any such marriage shall have been heretofore annulled by lawful decree or if either party thereto shall heretofore (after the marriage and during the life of the other) have lawfully married another, then such marriage shall be deemed to have become and to be void upon and after the date of the decree or the subse- quent marriage ;

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(b.)	this section shall not deprive or be held to have deprived any person of any property or right heretofore lawfully vested in him ;
(c.)	no will shall be deemed to be or to have been revoked by reason of any marriage heretofore contracted as aforesaid being validated by this section.

Amendment of 3. Section thirty-three of the principal Act is hereby amended

Section 33.

by the insertion, after the words " deceased wife," of the words " or

between a widow and the brother of her deceased husband."

By Authority: FRED. Wm. St SON, Government Printer, Perth.