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No. 7 of 1875.
MARRIAGE.
Marriage by special licence at other place.
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(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 of Marriages, 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 office of the Registrar of Marriages, 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 of Marriages 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 of Marriages and the parties and witnesses shall thereupon sign duplicate certificates in the form and manner herein before prescribed.
(5) The Registrar of Marriages shall deliver one certificate to the parties and shall file the other in his office.
22. Whenever the Governor's special licence authorizes the celebration of a marriage at a place other than a registered place of worship or the office of the Registrar of Marriages, the Registrar of Marriages, on taking the affidavit of one of the parties to the marriage, shall deliver to him or her a blank certificate of marriage in duplicate, and the minister celebrating the marriage, the parties, and two or more witnesses shall sign the same, in manner herein before prescribed, and the minister
* As amended by No. 14 of 1926 [15.10.26]. † As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1937.