27(1)Every marriage previously solemnized in the Province in good faith before any cleric where the parties so married have cohabited in a conjugal relationship shall be deemed to be and is declared valid, despite any real or supposed want of legal authority in the cleric to solemnize the marriage, and despite the want of licence or publication of banns, if the publication was required, or the absence of witnesses under which the marriage was solemnized, or any other legal objection to it, but nothing in this section has the effect of confirming or rendering valid a marriage between parties who were not legally competent to enter into the marriage contract by reason of consanguinity, affinity or otherwise.

27(2)When it is made to appear to the Lieutenant-Governor in Council by affidavit that a marriage has been solemnized in the Province in good faith and in ignorance of the requirements of the law by a person who was not at the time duly authorized to solemnize marriage, the Lieutenant-Governor in Council may by order ratify and confirm all marriages performed by that person during a period fixed by the order, or may ratify and confirm any particular marriage or marriages solemnized by that person, and on the order being made all marriages so ratified and confirmed shall be deemed to be valid from the time of the solemnization of them, but nothing in this section or in any such order has the effect of confirming or rendering valid a marriage between parties not legally competent to enter into the marriage contract by reason of consanguinity, affinity or otherwise.

27(1)Every marriage previously solemnized in the Province in good faith before any cleric where the parties so married have cohabited in a conjugal relationship shall be deemed to be and is declared valid, despite any real or supposed want of legal authority in the cleric to solemnize the marriage, and despite the want of licence or publication of banns, if the publication was required, or the absence of witnesses under which the marriage was solemnized, or any other legal objection to it, but nothing in this section has the effect of confirming or rendering valid a marriage between parties who were not legally competent to enter into the marriage contract by reason of consanguinity, affinity or otherwise.

27(2)When it is made to appear to the Lieutenant-Governor in Council by affidavit that a marriage has been solemnized in the Province in good faith and in ignorance of the requirements of the law by a person who was not at the time duly authorized to solemnize marriage, the Lieutenant-Governor in Council may by order ratify and confirm all marriages performed by that person during a period fixed by the order, or may ratify and confirm any particular marriage or marriages solemnized by that person, and on the order being made all marriages so ratified and confirmed shall be deemed to be valid from the time of the solemnization of them, but nothing in this section or in any such order has the effect of confirming or rendering valid a marriage between parties not legally competent to enter into the marriage contract by reason of consanguinity, affinity or otherwise.