HC Deb 18 July 1979 vol 970 c702W
Mr. Marlow

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether an Englishman who has become a Muslim and then contracts polygamous marriages overseas within the laws of an overseas country is permitted to bring all the wives so married into the United Kingdom.

Mr. Raison

Not unless he has established domicile in the overseas country concerned or in some other country permitting polygamous marriages and the wives so married are free to contract a polygamous marriage there under the law of their country of domicile.

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