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THE HONGKong governMENT GAZETTE, 4TH SEPTEMBER, 1875.
Invalid mar- riages.
Marriages under this Ordinance valid.
XXIX. No marriage shall be valid which would be null and void on the ground of kindred or affinity in England or Wales.
A marriage shall be null and void if both parties know- ingly and wilfully acquiesce in its celebration in any place other than the office of the Registrar General or a licensed place of worship (except when authorised by special licence), or under a false name or names, or without certificate of notice or licence duly issued, or by a person not being a competent minister, or the Registrar General or his deputy.
But no marriage shall, after celebration, be deemed invalid by reason that any provision of this Ordinance other than the foregoing has not been complied with.
XXX. All marriages celebrated under this Ordinance shall be good and valid in law to all intents and purposes.
Marrying XXXI. Whosoever, knowing that the written consent of the minors with- out consent of proper person as herein prescribed has not been obtained, shall marry or assist or procure any other person to marry a minor proper person. under the age of twenty-one years, not being a widow or widower, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, before the Supreme Court, shall be liable, at the discre- tion of the court, to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding two years with or without hard labour.
Penalty for
Any minister shall be guilty of a misdemeanor who wilfully celebrates a marriage, in the case of a minor, without such written consent as herein prescribed, or who wilfully celebrates a marriage, contrary to any other provision of this Ordinance, or knowing that any provision of this Ordinance has not been complied with, and upon conviction thereof, before the Supreme Court, shall be liable, at the discretion of the court, to be im- prisoned for any term not exceeding two years.
XXXII. Any minister who, after celebrating a marriage, fails failing to trans- to transmit the certificate thereof to the Registrar General mit certificate within seven days thereafter, shall be liable to a penalty.not
of marriage.
Penalty for defacing notices.
Persons undu-
exceeding fifty dollars.
XXXIII. Whosoever wilfully removes, defaces, alters, or des- troys any copy of a notice of intended marriage, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty-five dollars.
XXXIV. Whosoever knowingly and wilfully celebrates or pre- ly celebrating tends to celebrate a marriage, not being legally competent so marriage.
to do, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and being con- victed thereof before the Supreme Court, shall be liable, at the discretion of the court, to be imprisoned for any term not ex- ceeding two years with or without hard labour.
Penalties.
Fees.
Remission.
Forms.
Application of Ordinance.
Suspending clause.
Repeal.
XXXV. All penalties for offences against this Ordinance may be recovered in a summary way before any Magistrate.
XXXVI. The fees specified in the schedule hereto shall be paid to the Registrar General for the several matters to which they are applicable, and shall be by him paid into the Colonial Treasury. XXXVII. The Registrar General may, in cases when he is satisfied of the poverty of the parties, reduce the amounts of the said fees, or even remit them altogether.
XXXVIII. The forms contained in the schedule hereto may be used in the cases to which they are applicable with such alterations as circumstances render necessary.
XXXIX. This Ordinance shall apply to all marriages where one or both the parties profess the Christian religion.
XL. This Ordinance shall not come into operation until Her Majesty's confirmation thereof shall have been proclaimed in the Colony by the Governor, and thereupon Ordinance No. 1 of 1852, and Ördinance No. 4 of 1875 shall be and the same are hereby repealed; but such repeal shall not affect anything theretofore lawfully done under either of the said Ordinances.
SCHEDULE. Form A.
Registrar General's Certificate.
I,
hereby certify that on the
, Registrar General for the Colony of Hongkong, do
day of
notice was duly entered in the Marriage Notice Book of the said Colony of the marriage intended to be had between the parties herein named and described.
Names.
Condition. Rank or Profession.
Age.
Dwelling Place.
Date of notice entered Date of cetificate given
187 187
Witness my hand this
The issue of this certificate has not been forbidden by any person au- thorised to forbid the issue thereof.
day of
187
Registrar General,