ORDINANCE. No. 14 of 1875.
Marriage.
or usages of marriage observed in such church, denomination, or body, provided that the marriage be celebrated with open doors, and; (except in case of a special licence), between the hours of six o'clock in the morning and six in the afternoon, and in the presence of two or more witnesses besides the officiating minister.
No minister shall celebrate any marriage, until the parties deliver to him the Registrar General's certificate or the Governor's special licence.
23. The Registrar General shall cause to be prepared and delivered to the several licensed places of worship books of marriage certificates in duplicate and with butts in the form in the schedule hereto. The certificate shall be signed in duplicate by the officiating minister, by the parties, and by two or more witnesses to the marriage.
The minister shall deliver one certificate to the parties, immediately after the marriage, and shall transmit the other to the Registrar General within seven days thereafter, and the Registrar General shall file the same in his office.
The officiating minister shall enter in the butt the names of the parties and the date of the marriage.
24. After the issue of a certificate by the Registrar General, the parties may, if they think fit, contract a marriage before the Registrar General, in the presence of two or more witnesses, in the Registrar General's office, with open doors, and (except in case of a special licence), between the hours of ten o'clock in the forenoon and four o'clock in the afternoon, and in the following manner:
The Registrar General shall first address the parties to the following effect:—“Know ye, A.B. and C.D., that by the public taking of each other as man and wife in my presence and, in the presence of the persons now here, and by the subsequent attestation thereof by signing your names to that effect, you become legally married to each other although no other rite of a civil or religious nature shall take place; and know ye further that this marriage cannot be dissolved during your lifetime, except by a valid judgment of divorce, and that if either of you, before the death of the other, shall contract another marriage while this remains undissolved, you will thereby be guilty of bigamy, and be liable to the punishment inflicted for that grievous offence?
Each of the parties shall then say to the other "I call upon all persons here present to witness that I, A.B., do take thee, C.D., to be my lawful wife [or husband].”
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Marriage certificates.
Marriage before the Registrar General.
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