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[8. 22 cont.]
Marriage by special licence at other place.
Registration of certificates
Marriage.
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 and the parties and witnesses shall thereupon sign duplicate certificates in the form and manner hereinbefore prescribed.
(5) The Registrar shall deliver one certificate to the parties and shall file the other in his office.
[21]
23. 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, the Registrar, 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 hereinbefore prescribed, and the minister shall deliver one certificate to the parties, immediately after the marriage, and shall transmit the other to the Registrar within seven days thereafter, and the Registrar shall file the same in his office.
[22]
24. The Registrar shall register all certificates of marriage filed in his office in such order and manner as he thinks best suited for easy reference thereto.
Effect of certificate of marriage or certified
[23]
25. Any certificate of marriage filed in the office of the Registrar, or a copy thereof, provided it purports to be a copy thereof, signed and certified as a true copy by the Registrar and to be sealed or stamped with his official seal, shall be admissible as evidence of the marriage to which the same relates in any court or before any person having by law or by consent of parties authority to hear, receive, and examine evidence.
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