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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 10TH APRIL, 1875.
The Council concurs, and His Excellency nominates the following Members to form the Committee:
The Acting Colonial Secretary, The Attorney General,
Messrs. ALEXANDER, WHITTALL, and LowcoсK.
His Excellency adjourns the Council at 3.35 P.M., sine die.
Read and confirmed, this 8th Day of April, 1875.
ALFRED LISTER,
J. GARDINER AUSTIN,
Administrator.
Clerk of Councils.
Title.
Preamble.
Short title.
Existing regis- ters or copies
thereof to be delivered to
the Registrar
General. Copies to be certified.
be defrayed from public
HONGKONG.
ANNO TRICESIMO OCTAVO
VICTORIE REGINE.
JOHN GARDINER AUSTIN, Administrator and Commander-in-Chief.
No. 4 OF 1875.
An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, to provide a general Register of Marriages cele- brated in Hongkong.
[8th April, 1875.]
WColony of Hongkong should be systematically recorded in one general register: Be it enacted by the Governor of Hong- kong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:
HEREAS it is expedient that marriages celebrated in the
I. This Ordinance may be cited for all purposes as The Marriage Ordinance, 1875.
II. Every minister of religion or other person who has in his custody any register or other official record of marriages heretofore celebrated in this Colony shall, within three months after this Ordinance takes effect, deliver to the Registrar General the said register or official record, or a copy thereof.
III. Every person delivering a copy shall append thereto a certificate in the following form :-
I, A.B., &c.,
do certify that the above written pages are a true copy of the register (or official record) of marriages heretofore celebrated in St. John's Cathedral Church (or as the case may be) and that the original is in my custody.
Dated the
day of
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(Signed,) A. B.
Expenses may IV. The Governor may defray, from the public revenue of the Colony, all proper expenses connected with the delivery of the said registers or official records, or of making and delivering copies thereof.
revenue.
Registrar of marriages and deputies.
The Governor may license places of
worship.
V. The Registrar General shall be Registrar of Marriages, and, to assist him, the Governor may appoint one or more Deputy Registrars, and such deputies may celebrate marriages, and may exercise all the other powers, and perform all the duties confer- red upon the Registrar General by this Ordinance, and all acts done by a deputy shall be as valid as if done by the Registrar
General.
VI. The Governor may license any place of public worship to be a place for the celebration of marriages, and may, at any time, cancel any such licence.
Licences to be VII. Whenever the Governor grants or cancels any such gazetted.
licence, the Registrar General shall give public notice thereof in the Government Gazette.
Notice of in-
Preliminaries to marriage.
VIII. Whenever, after this Ordinance takes effect, any persons tended marri- desire to marry, one of the parties to the intended marriage shall give notice thereof to the Registrar General in the following form:-
age.