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No. 7 of 1875.
MARRIAGE.
Licensing of places of worship.
Notification of licence
Giving of notice of intended marriage.
First Schedule.
office shall be deemed to have been appointed to be Registrar of Marriages or a Deputy Registrar of Marriages, as the case may be, and all the powers and duties expressed by this or any other Ordinance to be conferred or imposed on the Registrar of Marriages or on a Deputy Registrar of Marriages, as the case may be, shall from time to time be deemed to have been conferred or imposed on the person for the time being performing the duties of such office.
(3) All acts done by any Deputy Registrar of Marriages shall be as valid as if done by the Registrar of Marriages.
3. 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.
any such
4. Whenever the Governor grants or cancels licence, the Registrar of Marriages 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 Registrar of Marriages in Form No. 1 in the First Schedule.
(2) Every such notice shall be signed by the party giving Form No. 1. the notice.
Filing and exhibition of notice and entry in Marriage
6.--(1) The Registrar of Marriages shall file every such notice in his office.
(2) He shall exhibit one copy of such notice at the office Notice Book. of the Registrar of Marriages, 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.
Supply of forms.
(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 Registrar of Marriages shall supply forms of notice gratuitously to persons applying for the same.
* As amended by No. 14 of 1926 [15.10.26].