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The Governor may license
places of worship.
Licences to be gazetted.
Notice of intended marriage.
ORDINANCE No. 14 of 1875.
Marriage.
6. 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.
7. Whenever the Governor grants or cancels any such licence, the Registrar General shall give public notice thereof in the Government Gazette.
Preliminaries to marriage.
8. Whenever, after this Ordinance takes effect, any persons desire to marry, one of the parties to the intended marriage shall give notice thereof to the Registrar General in the following form:
NOTICE OF MARRIAGE.
To the Registrar General of Hongkong.
I hereby give you notice that a marriage is intended to be had, within three months from the date hereof, between me and the other party herein named,
Name.
Condition.
Rank or Profession.
Age.
Dwelling Place.
Consent, if any, by whom given.
Name of
Bachelor
or
Bridegroom,
Widower,
Name of
Spinster or
Bride,
Widow.
Notices to be filed and copies made by the Registrar General.
Witness my hand this
day of
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(Signature of party giving the notice).
Every such notice shall be signed by the party giving notice.
9. The Registrar General shall file every such notice in his office; he shall, as heretofore, exhibit one copy of such notice at the Supreme Court House, and may, if he thinks fit, exhibit copies in other conspicuous places open to the public, and shall keep every such copy so exhibited until he issues a certificate as hereinafter mentioned, or until the three months expire; he shall also enter a copy of the said notice with the date of such entry in a book to be called the "Marriage Notice Book," and shall allow any person to inspect such book during office hours without fee.