Coronavirus COVID-19: Further marriage law update

Further to our post Coronavirus COVID-19: Marriage Law Update on the advice published by the Faculty Office on 18 March 2020, there has been a subsequent update in the light of guidance issued by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York after the Prime Minister’s Address to the Nation on Monday 23 March, and advice from the Church of England. 

This updated advice from the Faculty Office, extracts of which are reproduced below, seeks to address some common questions which it has been receiving since the COVID-19 restrictions were introduced and which were not covered in its earlier advice. These are: weddings in church; emergency weddings in hospital, hospice or at home; and establishing a Qualifying Connection.

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