Canon 1080. §1 Whenever an impediment is discovered after everything has already been prepared for a wedding and the marriage cannot without probable danger of grave harm be postponed until a dispensation is obtained from the competent authority, the power to dispense from all impediments, except those mentioned in can. 1078 §2, n. 1, is possessed by the local Ordinary and, provided the case is occult, by all those mentioned in can. 1079 §§2-3, the conditions prescribed therein having been observed.

§2 This power applies also to the validation of a marriage when there is the same danger in delay and there is no time to have recourse to the Apostolic See or, in the case of impediments from which he can dispense, to the local Ordinary.

§1. Quoties impedimentum detegatur cum iam omnia sunt parata ad nuptias, nec matrimonium sine probabili gravis mali periculo differri possit usquedum a competenti auctoritate dispensatio obtineatur, potestate gaudent dispensandi ab omnibus impedimentis, iis exceptis de quibus in can. 1078, §2, n. 1, loci Ordinarius et, dummodo casus sit occultus, omnes de quibus in can. 1079, §§2-3, servatis condicionibus ibidem praescriptis.

§2. Haec potestas valet etiam ad matrimonium convalidandum, si idem periculum sit in mora nec tempus suppetat recurrendi ad Sedem Apostolicam vel ad loci Ordinarium, quod attinet ad impedimenta a quibus dispensare valet.