Savings as to marriages contracted before this Act

(1) Every marriage celebrated prior to the commencement of this Act by any minister of religion, or person ordinarily officiating as such, or magistrate, or district officer, shall be and be deemed to have been from the time of the celebration thereof a perfectly legal and valid marriage to all intents and purposes. (2) Nothing in this section shall legalise any marriage, (a) declared or made, or which shall hereafter be declared or made, invalid by any competent court, or by any law of Belize, including Acts and laws which have been repealed; 46 (b) where either party thereto had another wife or husband then living; (c) which would have been, or would be, void by reason of relationship, kindred or alliance, or of fraud, or incapacity to contract marriage; or (d) where, the same being at the time of its celebration invalid, either of the parties thereto afterwards, and prior to the commencement of this Act, has intermarried with some other