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Notification
of licence.
Giving of notice of
intended
marriage.
First Schedule. Form No. 1.
Filing and
exhibition
of notice and
entry in Marriage Notice Book.
*
Supply of forms..
Issue of certificate.
First Schedule. Form No. 2.
Grant of licence.
First
Schedule.
Form No. 3
No. 7 of 1875.
MARRIAGE.
4. Whenever the Governor grants or cancels any such licence, the Secretary for Chinese Affairs shall give public notice thereof in the Gazette.
5.-(1) Whenever any persons desire to marry, one of the parties to the intended marriage shall give notice thereof to the Secretary for Chinese Affairs in Form No. 1 in the First Schedule...
(2) Every such notice shall be signed by the party giving the notice.
6-(1) The Secretary for Chinese Affairs shall file every such notice in his office.
(2) He shall exhibit one copy of such notice at the office of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, 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 referred to in section 10 expire.
(3) 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.
(4) He shall allow any person to inspect such book during office hours without fee.
7. The Secretary for Chinese Affairs shall supply forms of notice gratuitously to persons applying for the same.
8. At any time not more than three months or (except when the Governor grants a licence) less than fifteen days after the giving of such notice, the Secretary for Chinese Affairs shall, on the request of either of the parties, issue a certificate in Form No. 2 in the First Schedule.
9. The Governor may, at any time after a party has given notice as aforesaid, grant a licence, in Form No. 3 in the First Schedule, authorising the Secretary for Chinese Affairs to issue his certificate on or after any day named in such licence.
* As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1923,
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