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Who are to give Consent if Parties are under Age.
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XIX. And be it enacted, That after the said Thirty first Day of March no Marriage shall be solemnized in Ireland by Licence either of a Surrogate or Deputy Surrogate or of a Presbyterian Minister or a Registrar, as herein provided, where either of the Parties, not being a Widower or Widow, shall be under the Age of Twenty-one Years, unless the Consent of the Father of such of the Parties so under Age (it then living) be first had and obtained or if dead of the Guardian or Guardians of the Person of the obtained, or if dead of the Guardian or Guardians of the person of the Party so under Age lawfully appointed, or one of them and in case there shall be no such Guardian or Guardians, then of the Mother of such Party, if unmarried, and if there shall be no Mother unmarried then of the Guardian or Guardians appointed by the Court of Chancery, if any, or one of them; and every Person whose Consent to a Marriage by Licence is required as aforesaid shall be authorized to enter a Caveat against the Issue of Licence by any Person empowered by this Act to grant Licences, and shall be also authorized to forbid the Publication of Banns in any Church or Chapel, or certified Presbyterian Meeting House, and to forbid the Issue of the Registrar’s Certificate.
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