The qualities and conditions required to be able to contract marriage are governed, for each of the spouses, by their personal law. Whatever the applicable personal law, marriage requires the consent of the spouses, within the meaning of Article 146 and the first paragraph of Article 180.
Two persons of the same sex may contract marriage where, for at least one of them, either his personal law or the law of the State in whose territory he is domiciled or resident so permits.