XI. At any time not more than three months nor (except Registrar when the Governor grants a licence) less than twenty-one days General way after the giving of such notice, the Registrar General shall, on issue certifi- the request of either of the parties, issue a certificato in the form A in the schedule hereto.
cate.
licence.
in three months fresh
XII. The Governor may, at any time after a party has given After notice notice as aforesaid, grant a licence in the form Bin the schedule the Governor hereto authorizing the Registrar General to issue his certificate my grant a on or after any day named in such licence.
XIII. If the marriage do not take place within three months If marriage do after giving the above notice, the notice given and all other not take place proceedings thereupon shall be utterly void, and fresh notice will be required before any marriage can be had between the notice to be
given. parties.
XIV, The Governor may, when he sees fit, grant a special Special licence licence in the form in the schedule hereto, dispensing with in case of notice as aforesaid, or with the certificate of the Registrar Ge- emergency - neral, or with both, and authorizing the celebration of a marriage between the parties named, between the hours of eight in the forenoon and six in the afternoon, upon a day and at a place specified in the licence.
licence.
XV. Before the Registrar General issues any certificate, Affidavir and before the Governor grants any special licence, one of the before issue of parties to the intended marriage shall appear personally before certificate the Registrar General and make affidavit (which the Registrar o special is hereby authorized to take) that he or she believes that there is not any impediment of kindred or alliance or any other lawful hindrance to the marriage, and either that the consent of the parties required by law to consent to the marriage has been obtained or that no such consent is required.
XVI. If either party to the intended marriage not being a Consent of widower or a widow, is under twenty-one years of age, the written parents or consent of the father, or (if he be dead) of the mother, or (if both guardians to be dead) of the lawful guardian of such party, must be produced marriage of to the Registrar General before he issue a certificate, or to the Governor before he grant a special licence.
minors.
XVII. If there be no parent or guardian of such party resid- If no parent or ing in the Colony, the Registrar General may give his consent guardian, Re- gistrar General in writing to the marriage if upon enquiry the marriage appear
forbidden.
to him to be proper, and such consent shall be as effectual as if may consent. the father or mother or guardian had consented.
XVIII. Any person whose consent is required as aforesaid Jasue of certifi- may forbid the issue of the Registrar General's certificate by cate may be
opposite the entry in the writing the word "Forhidden" marriage notice book, and by signing his name and the character in which he forbids the issue; and if the issue of any certificate be so forbidden, the notice and and all proceedings thereupon shall be void.
forbid.
XIX. If either of the parties to the intended marriage allege The Registrar that the person forbidding the issue is not authorized by law General may so to do, the Registrar General shall enquire into the matter, enquire into and if he be satisfied that the person is not so authorized, he the right to may proceed to issue the certificate in due course without reckoning the time that has elapsed since the issue was forbidden. For the purposes of soch enquiry, or of any enquiry under section XVII the Registrar General nay administer an oath to any person.
XX. If any person wilfully makes any false statement in Penalty for any affidavit as aforesaid, or wilfully makes on oath any false false statemeui. statement or gives any false answer in any such enquiry, he shall,
on conviction before the Supreme Court, be liable to be impri- soned for any term not exceeding two years with or without hard labour.
Celebration of marriage.
XXI. Marriages may hereafter be celebrated in any licensed Marriage in place of worship by any competent minister of the church, deno- licensed places mination, or body to which such place of worship belongs, and of worship, according to the rites or usages of marriage observed in such church, denomination, or body, provided that the marriage be celebrated with open doors hetween the hours of cight o'clock in the morning and six in the afternoon and in the presence of two or more witnesses besides the officiating minister.
No minister shall celebrate any marriage until the parties deliver to him the Registrar General's certificate or the Governor's special licence.
Ministers may receive the fees ordinarily paid for the celebration of marriage.
XXII. The Registrar General shall cause to be printed and Marriage cer delivered to the several licensed places of worship books of tiflcates. marriage certificates in duplicate and with butts in the form in
the schedule hereto. The certificate shall be signed in duplicate by the officiating minister, by the parties, and by two or more witnesses to the marriage.
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