ORDINANCE No. 4 OF 1875 . 1365
Marriage.
11. At any time not more than three months nor (except when the Governor Registrar
General may
issue certificate.
grants a licence ) less than fifteen days after the giving of such notice, the Registrar
General shall, on the request of either of the parties, issue a certificate in the form A
in the schedule hereto.
12. The Governor may, at any time after a party has given notice as aforesaid , After notice the
Governor may
grant a licence in the form B in the schedule hereto, authorizing the Registrar General grant a licence.
to issue his certificate on or after any day named in such licence.
13. Ifthe marriage do not take place within three months after giving the above If marriage do
not take place
in three months
notice, the notice given and all other proceedings thereupon shall be utterly void, and fresh notice tobe
given.
fresh notice will be required before any marriage can be had between the parties.
14. The Governor may, when he sees fit, grant a special licence in the form C in Special licence
in case of
the schedule hereto, dispensing with notice as aforesaid, or with the certificate of the emergency.
Registrar General, or with both, and authorizing the celebration of a marriage between
the parties named , between the hours of six in the forenoon and six in the afternoon ,
upon a day and at a place specified in the licence.
15. Before the Registrar General issues any certificate, and before the Governor Affidavit before
issue of
certificate or
grants any licence, one of the parties to the intended marriage shall appear personally licence.
before the Registrar General and make affidavit (which the Registrar General is hereby
authorised 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.
16. If either party to the intended marriage, not being a widower or a widow, is Consent of
parents or
guardians to
under twenty- one years of age, the written consent of the father, or (if he be dead) of marriage of
minors.
the mother, or (if both be dead) of the lawful guardian of such party, must be produced
to the Registrar General before he issues a certificate, or to the Governor before he
grants a licence.
17. If there be no parent or guardian of such party residing in the Colony , the If no parent or
guardian, Re
Registrar General may give his consent in writing to the marriage, if upon enquiry gistrar General
may consent.
the marriage appear to him to be proper, and such consent shall be as effectual as if
the father or mother or guardian had consented.
Issue of
18. Any person whose consent is required as aforesaid may forbid the issue of the certificate may
be forbidden.
Registrar General's certificate by writing the word " Forbidden " opposite the entry in
the 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 all
proceedings thereupon shall be void .
19. If either of the parties to the intended marriage allege that the person The Registrar
General may
forbidding the issue is not authorised by law so to do , the Registrar General shall enquire into
the right to
forbid.
enquire into the matter, and if he be satisfied that the person is not so authorised, he
may proceed to issue the certificate in due course without reckoning the time that has
elapsed since the issue was forbidden .