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Politics of Guernsey take place in a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic British Crown dependency.
Sark is a part of the Channel Islands in the southwestern English Channel, off the coast of Normandy, France. It is a royal fief, which forms part of the Bailiwick of Guernsey, with its own set of laws based on Norman law and its own parliament. It has a population of about 500. Sark has an area of 2.10 square miles (5.44 km2).
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Same-sex marriage is legal in the Bailiwick of Guernsey, a Crown dependency of the United Kingdom. It became legal in the jurisdiction of Guernsey on 2 May 2017, in Alderney on 14 June 2018, and in Sark on 23 April 2020.
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- 1 2 "Guernsey Deputy Martin Storey dies". BBC News . 2015-07-23. Retrieved 2015-08-19.
- ↑ "Tributes paid to Deputy Martin Storey". Guernsey Press . 2015-07-23. Retrieved 2015-08-22.
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