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1366 ORDINANCE No. 4 OF 1875 .
Marriage.
For the purposes of such enquiry, or of any enquiry under section 17, the Registrar
General may administer an oath to any person.
Penalty for false 20. If any person wilfully makes any false statement in any affidavit as aforesaid ,
statement.
or wilfully makes on oath any false statement or gives any false answer in any such
enquiry, he shall, on conviction before the Supreme Court, be liable to be imprisoned
for any term not exceeding two years with or without hard labour.
Celebration of marriage.
Marriage in 21. Marriages may hereafter be celebrated in any licensed place of worship by any
licensed places of
worship. competent minister of the church, denomination , or body to which such place of
worship belongs, and according to the rites or usages of marriage observed in such
church, denomination, or body, provided that the marriage be celebrated with open
doors between the hours of six 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.
Marriage cer 22. The Registrar General shall cause to be prepared and delivered to the several
tificates.
licensed places of worship books of 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.
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
thereafter, and the Registrar General shall file the same in his office.
The officiating minister shall enter in the butt the names of the parties and the
date of the marriage.
Marriage before 23. After the issue of a certificate by the Registrar General, the parties may, if
the Registrar
General.
they think fit, contract a marriage before the Registrar General, in the presence of two
witnesses, 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 afternoon, 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 inarriage while this remains undissolved, you will thereby be
guilty of bigamy, and be liable to the punishment inflicted for that grievous offence."