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The minister shall deliver one certificate to the parties, imme- diately after the marriage, and shall transmit the other to the Registrar General within seven days thereafter, and the Re- gistrar General shall file the same in his office.
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The officiating minister shall enter in the be the names of the parties and the date of the marriage.
XXIII. After the issue of a certificate by the Registrar Marriage General, the parties may, if they think fit, contract a marriage before the Registrar before the Registrar General, in the presence of two witnesses, Central. in the Registrar General's office with open doors between the hours of ten o'clock in the forenoon and four o'clock in the ufternoon, and in the following manner:
The Registrar General, 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 life time, 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,"
Each of the parties shall taon 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).
The Registrar General and the parties and witnesses shall thereupon sign duplicate certificates in the form and manner hereinbefore prescribed.
The Registrar General shall deliver one certificate to the parties and shall file the other in his office.
XXIV. Whenever the Governor's special licence authorises Marriages hy the celebration of a marriage at a place other than a registered special licence place of worship, or the office of the Registrar General, the at other places. Registrar General upon taking the affidavit of one of the parties to the marriage, shall deliver to him a blank certificate of mar- riage in duplicate, and the minister celebrating the marriage, the parties and two witnesses shall sign the same, in manner herein- before prescribed and the minister shall deliver one certificate to the parties immediately after the marriage and shall transmit the other to the Registrar General within seven days there- after, and the Registrar General shall file the same in his office.
XXV. The Registrar General shall register all certificates Certificates
of marriage filed in his office in such order and manner as he how filed. thinks best suited for easy reference thereto.
XXVI. Any certificate of marriage filed in the office of the Certificates or Registrar General, or a copy thereof, provided it purport to be certified copies signed and certified as a true copy by the Registrar General, and to be evidence. to be sealed or stamped with the seul of the general register office, shall be admissible as evidence of the marriage to which the same relates in any court of justice, or before any person now or hereafter having by law or by consent of parties au- thority to hear, receive and examine evidence.
XXVII. No marriage shall be valid which would be null and Invalid maar→ void on the ground of kindred or affinity in England or Wales. riages.
A marriage shall be null and void if both parties know- ingly and wilfully acquiesce in its celebration in any place other than the office of the Registrar General or a licensed place of worship (except when authorised by special licence), or under a false name of names, or without certificate of notice or licence duly issued, or by a person not being a minister or the Registrar General or his deputy.
But no marriage shall after celebration be deemed invalid by reason that any provision of this Ordinance other than the foregoing has not been complied with.
XXVIII. All marriages celebrated under this Ordinance shall Marriages be good and valid in the law to all intents and purposes.
under this Ordinance valid.
XXIX. Whosoever knowing that the written consent of the Marrying proper person as herein prescribed has not been obtained shall minors with marry or assist or procure any other person to marry a minor gut consent of under the age of twenty-one years not being a widow or proper person. widower, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction theroof, shall be liable, at the discretion of the court, to be im- prisoned for any term not exceeding two years with or without hard labour.
Any minister shall be guilty of a misdemeanor who wilfully celebrates a marriage, in the case of a minor, without such written consent as herein prescribed, or who wilfully celebrates