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No. 7 of 1875.
Marriage
before Regis-
trar General.
1st schedule
Form 6.
*
MARRIAGE.
(3) The minister shall deliver one certificate to the parties, immediately after the marriage, and shall transmit the other to the Registrar General within 7 days thereafter, who shall file the same in his office.
(4) The officiating minister shall enter in the butt the names of the parties and the date of the marriage.
21.--(1) After the issue of a certificate by the Registrar General, the parties may, if they think fit, contract a marriage before the Registrar General: Provided that, before they are permitted to do so, each of the parties shall sign a written declaration in the presence of the Registrar General, which he shall witness, in the form No. 6 in the 1st schedule.
(2) Such declaration shall, if necessary, be interpreted to both or either of the parties in their or his or her own language in the presence of the Registrar General, and the person interpreting such declaration shall subscribe his name to it as interpreter.
(3) The marriage shall take place 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 10 a.m. and 4 p.m., and in the following manner :-
(a) 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:" and
(b) 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]."
(4) The Registrar General and the parties and witnesses shall thereupon sign duplicate certificates in the form and manner hereinbefore prescribed.
(5) The Registrar General shall deliver one certificate to the parties and shall file the other in his office.
* As amended by No. 50 of 1911 and No. 51 of 1911.
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