Complex sentence: The Constitutional Court's judgment set a deadline of 1 December 2006 for Parliament to rectify the situation, failing which words would be "read in" to the Marriage Act to allow same-sex marriages to take place.
Split into simpler sentences: The Constitutional Court's judgment set a deadline of 1 December 2006 for Parliament to rectify the situation. Failing which, words would be "read in" to the Marriage Act to allow same-sex marriages to take place.