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Family Law Act 1986 (-)
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This document is for private study purposes only. It is likely not to reflect the law as it stands today. It may be incomplete, and some provisions are likely to have been repealed or amended, and new ones inserted.
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(1) Subject to the following provisions of this section, any person may apply to the High Court or a County Court for one or more of the following declarations in relation to a marriage specified in the application, that is to say . . .
(a) a declaration that the marriage was at its inception a valid marriage;
(b) a declaration that the marriage subsisted on a date specified in the application;
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(1) On an application (to a court) for a declaration under this Part the court may at any stage of the proceedings, of its own motion or on the application of any party to the proceedings, direct that all necessary papers on the matter be sent to the Attorney-General.
(2) The Attorney-General, whether or not he is sent papers in relation to an application… for a declaration under this Part may –
(a) intervene in the proceedings on that application in such manner as he thinks necessary or expedient, and
(b) argue before the court any question in relation to the application which the court considers it necessary to have fully argued.
(3) Where any costs are incurred by the Attorney-General in connection with any application to a court for a declaration after this Part, the court may make such order that it considers just as to the payment of those costs by parties to the proceedings.
