1406 ORDINANCE No. 14 OF 1875.
Marriage.
The Registrar General and the parties and witnesses shall thereupon
sign duplicate certificates in the form and inanner hereinbefore prescribed .
The Registrar General shall deliver one certificate to the parties and
shall file the other in his office.
Marriages by 25. Whenever the Governor's special licence authorises the celebra
special licence
at other tion of a marriage at a place other than a registered place of worship , or
places.
the office of the Registrar General , the Registrar General upon taking the
affidavit of one of the parties to the marriage, shall deliver to him a blank
certificate of marriage in duplicate, and the minister celebrating the
marriage, the parties and two 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 General within seven days thereafter , and the Registrar
General shall file the same in his office .
Certificates
26. The Registrar General shall register all certificate of marriage
how filed.
filed in his office in such order and manner as he thinks best suited for
casy reference thereto .
Certificates 27. Any certificate of marriage filed in the office of the Registrar
or certified
copies to be General, or a copy thereof, provided it purport to be signed and certified
evidence.
as a true copy by the Registrar General, and to be sealed or stamped with
his official scal , 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 authority to hear, receive
and examine evidence .
Correction of 28. The Registrar General may, when authorised by the Colonial
errors in
certificate. Secretary, correct any clerical error in any certificate of marriage upon
production to him of the certificate delivered to the parties , and shall
authenticate every such correction by his signature, or by marking the
same with his initials, and the date of making the correction .
Invalid 29. No marriage shall be valid which would be nuli and void on
marriages.
the ground of kindred or affinity in England or Wales .
A marriage shall be null and void if both parties knowingly 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 or names , or without
certificate of notice or licence duly issued , or by a person not being a
competent minister, or the Registrar General or his deputy.