Marriage.
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of marriage.
First
Form 5.
21. (1) The Registrar shall cause to be prepared and delivered to the several licensed places of worship books of marriage certificates in duplicate and with butts in the prescribed form.
(2) The certificate shall be signed in duplicate by the officiating minister, by the parties, and by two or more witnesses to the marriage.
(3) The minister shall deliver one certificate to the parties, immediately after the marriage, and shall within seven days thereafter transmit the other to the Registrar 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. [20]
before
22. (1) After the issue of a certificate by the Marriage Registrar, or the grant of a special licence by the Governor, the parties may, if they think fit, contract a marriage before the Registrar: Provided that, before they are permitted to do so, each of the parties shall sign a written declaration in the presence of the Registrar, which he shall witness, in the prescribed form.
(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, 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, 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 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
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Schedule. Form 6.
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