Marriage of persons within prohibited degrees of relationship void

1 Subject to the provisions of this section, a marriage which is forbidden by the provisions of Schedule 2 shall be void. 2 Any persons who are not within the degrees of consanguinity but are within the degrees of affinity prohibited by the said Schedule 2 may apply to the High Court for its consent to their marriage, and the court, if it is satisfied that neither party to the intended marriage has by his or her conduct caused or contributed to the cause of the termination of any previous marriage of the other party, may make an order dispensing with the prohibition contained in Schedule 2 so far as it relates to the parties to the application and, if such an order is made, that prohibition shall cease to apply to the parties. 3 The Registrar of the court where any order under this section is made shall send a copy in duplicate of the order to the Registrar-General. 4 No marriage not forbidden by the provisions of Schedule 2 shall be void only on the ground of consanguinity or affinity.