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Vigselrätt

The right to perform marriages (vigselrätt) is a permit from the Legal, Financial and Administrative Services Agency (Kammarkollegiet) that lets a religious community perform legally valid marriages. With the permit the community can appoint officiants whose marriages are valid also in law, not only within the community. Since the permit is granted by the Legal, Financial and Administrative Services Agency, the review takes place at national level, and it determines which communities can marry with legal effect.

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