Marriages in Japan (Validity) Act 1912
WHEREAS doubts have been entertained with respect to the validity of certain marriages (both or one of the parties thereto being subjects or a subject of this realm) solemnized in the Empire of Japan since the sixteenth of July eighteen hundred and ninety-nine (being the date when a treaty between Her late Majesty Queen Victoria, and His Majesty the Emperor of Japan, dated the sixteenth of July eighteen hundred and ninety-four came into force), and it is expedient to remove those doubts: