A.D. 1875.]
(2.) A marriage shall be null and void if both parties knowingly 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 authorized by special licence), or under a false name or names, or without a certificate of notice or licence duly issued, or by a person not being a competent minister or the Registrar General or his deputy.
(3.) 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.
27. All marriages celebrated under this Ordinance shall be good and valid in law to all intents and purposes.
Offences.
28. Every person who, knowing that the written consent of the proper person as herein prescribed has not been obtained, marries, or assists or procures any other person to marry, a minor under the age of twenty-one years, not being a widow or widower, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, being convicted thereof before the Supreme Court, shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for any term not exceeding two years.
29. Any minister who---
(1.) wilfully celebrates a marriage in the case of a minor, without such written consent as herein prescribed; or
(2.) 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,
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, being convicted thereof before the Supreme Court, shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to imprisonment for any term not exceeding two years.
30. Any minister who, after celebrating a marriage, fails to transmit the certificate thereof to the Registrar General within seven days thereafter shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding fifty dollars.
Penalty on minister for failing to transmit certificate of marriage.
31. Every person who wilfully removes, defaces, alters, or destroys any copy of a notice of intended marriage shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty-five dollars.
Penalty for removing, etc., notice.
32. Every person who knowingly and wilfully celebrates or pretends to celebrate a marriage, not being legally competent to do so, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, being convicted thereof before the Supreme Court, shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for any term not exceeding two years.
Punishment for celebrating unauthorized marriage.