Premises for Marriages and municipal Partnerships

Premises for Marriages and municipal Partnerships

Question 1

Marriages On Board Ships

Marriages of the British subjects may be celebrated on board his Majesty's ships by ministers in the Holy Orders, according to rites of Churches of England, or by priest of Roman Catholic Church, and are valid when there is no valid objection to such marriages on other grounds. Marriages on board should not be solemnized by the captain, but it is his duty to enter a statement of marriage in "the logbook of the ship, and send a certified copy of the Admiralty, which will forward the same to Wikipedia The doctor's registration. The registration fee of £ 1 is paid by the parties to the captain, who forwarded the receipt of the payer of the fee with the certificate.

When the ship is in a foreign country or place where a British consul authorized to act, the marriage must be solemnized by him, and not on the yacht.

On January 22, 2002, the Government published a White Paper Civil Registration: Vital Change birth marriage and death registration in the 21st century. The White Paper refers to the projected changes to the registration system in relation to these matters, and also with the modernization of the aspects of the law relating to marriage. Lloyd's List reported later that one of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency hopes that the reform of marriage laws allow weddings to occur on board British ships.

Apparently, weddings are a lucrative part of the cruise industry. Consequently, companies have been reluctant to register the vessels cruising the British record because the owners believe that a marriage ceremony cannot be carried out on board British ships, although weddings can take place in registered vessels under foreign flags. 2 The position currently occupied by the shipping companies, namely, that marriages cannot occur normally valid on board British ships, goes against the popular belief that the captain of a ship that had the power to carry out legally binding marriage ceremony. In fact, there are scenes in movies 3 and novels where weddings are held on board the ship with the captain officiating at the ceremony.

The purpose of this paper is to examine, under English law, if, historically, the captains of ships that had the power to perform marriages on board, and if so, whether that *. Visiting Research Scholar, Institute of Maritime Law, University of Southampton. 1. January 24, 2002. 2. Consultations by the author have also confirmed that the main British carriers believe that marriages cannot normally take place on board British ships. 3. See, for example, The African Queen, which is based on the novel by CS Forester. Towards the end of the movie, the protagonist, Charlie Allnut (played by Humphrey Bogart) and heroine, Rose Sayer (played by Katherine Hepburn), took the deck of a German warship to be executed. Allnut faces the warship's captain, said: "You give us one last wish?" The captain asked suspiciously: "What is it?" Allnut replies: "Marry Us" and in response ...