ORDINANCE No. 4 OF 1875.
Marriage.
11. At any time not more than three months nor (except when the Governor grants a licence) less than fifteen days after the giving of such notice, the Registrar General shall, on the request of either of the parties, issue a certificate in the form A in the schedule hereto.
12. The Governor may, at any time after a party has given notice as aforesaid, grant a licence in the form B in the schedule hereto, authorizing the Registrar General to issue his certificate on or after any day named in such licence.
13. If the marriage does not take place within three months after giving the above notice, the notice given and all other proceedings thereupon shall be utterly void, and fresh notice will be required before any marriage can be had between the parties.
14. The Governor may, when he sees fit, grant a special licence in the form C in the schedule hereto, dispensing with notice as aforesaid, or with the certificate of the Registrar General, or with both, and authorizing the celebration of a marriage between the parties named, between the hours of six in the forenoon and six in the afternoon, upon a day and at a place specified in the licence.
15. Before the Registrar General issues any certificate, and before the Governor grants any licence, one of the parties to the intended marriage shall appear personally before the Registrar General and make affidavit (which the Registrar General is hereby authorised to take) that he or she believes that there is not any impediment of kindred or alliance or any other lawful hindrance to the marriage, and either that the consent of the parties required by law to consent to the marriage has been obtained or that no such consent is required.
16. If either party to the intended marriage, not being a widower or a widow, is under twenty-one years of age, the written consent of the father, or (if he be dead) of the mother, or (if both be dead) of the lawful guardian of such party, must be produced to the Registrar General before he issues a certificate, or to the Governor before he grants a licence.
17. If there be no parent or guardian of such party residing in the Colony, the Registrar General may give his consent in writing to the marriage, if upon enquiry the marriage appear to him to be proper, and such consent shall be as effectual as if the father or mother or guardian had consented.
18. Any person whose consent is required as aforesaid may forbid the issue of the Registrar General's certificate by writing the word "Forbidden" opposite the entry in the marriage notice book, and by signing his name and the character in which he forbids the issue; and if the issue of any certificate be so forbidden, the notice and all proceedings thereupon shall be void.*
19. If either of the parties to the intended marriage allege that the person forbidding the issue is not authorised by law so to do, the Registrar General shall enquire into the matter, and if he be satisfied that the person is not so authorised, he may proceed to issue the certificate in due course without reckoning the time that has elapsed since the issue was forbidden.
Registrar General may issue certificate.
After notice the Governor may grant a licence.
If marriage does not take place in three months fresh notice to be given.
Special licence in case of emergency.
Affidavit before issue of certificate or licence.
Consent of parents or guardians to marriage of minors.
If no parent or guardian, Registrar General may consent.
Issue of certificate may be forbidden.
The Registrar General may enquire into the right to forbid.
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