My Lords, I beg to introduce a Bill to amend the Foreign Marriage Act 1892 and to repeal certain enactments which are spent relating to the validation of marriages of British subjects solemnised outside the United Kingdom.

I beg to move that the Bill be now read a first time.

Moved, That the Bill be now read a first time—(The Lord Chancellor).

On Question, Bill read a first time, and to be printed.