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IV. The Governor may defray, from the public revenue of the Colony, all proper expenses connected with the delivery of the said registers or official records, or of making and delivering copies thereof.
V. The Registrar-tieneral shall be Registrar of Marriages, and to assist him, the Governor may appoint one or more Deputy-Registrars, and such deputies may celebrate marriages, and may exercise all the other powers, and perform all the duties conferred upon the Registrar-General by this Ordinance, and all acts done by a Deputy shall be as valud as if done by the Registrar-General.
VI. The Governor may heeuse any place of public worship to be a place for the celebration of marriages, and may at any time, cancel any such license,
VII Whenever the Giovernor grants or cancels any such licence, the Registrar- General shall give public notice thereof in the Government “Gazette."
Perliminaries to Marriage.
VIII. Whenever, after this Ordinance takes effect, any persons desire to marry, one of the parties to the intended marriage shall give notice thereof to the Registrar- General in the following form:
Notice of Marrige.
To the Registrar-General of Hong Kong.
I hereby give you notice that a marriage is intended to be had, within three months from the date hereof, between me and the other party herein named.
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(Signature of party giving the notice.)
Every such notice shall be signed by the party giving notice.
IX. The Registrar-General shall file every such notice in his office; he shall expose one copy of such notice in a conspicuous place open to the public, and keep it so exposed until he issue a certificate as hereinafter mentioned, or until the three months expire, he shall also enter a copy of the said notice with a date of such entry in a book to be called the Marriage Notice Book," and shall allow any person to inspect such book during office hours without fee.
X. The Registrar-General shall supply forms of notice gratuitously to persons applying for the same.
XI. At any time not more than three months nor (except when the Governor grants a license) less than twenty-one 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.
XII. The Governor may, at any time after a party has given notice as aforesaid, grant a license in the form B in the schedule hereto, authorizing the Registrar-General to issue his certificate on or after any day named in such
license.
XIII. If the marriage do not take place within three months after giving the above notice, the notice given and all other proceedings thereupon shall be utterly void, and fresh notice will be required before any marriage can be had between the parties.
XIV. The Governor may, when he sees fit, grant a special license in the form C in the schedule hereto, dispensing with notice as aforesaid, or with the certificate of the Registrar-General, 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 license.
XV. Before the Registrar-General issues any certificate, and before the Governor grants any special license, one of the parties to the intended marriage shall appear personally before the Registrar-General and make affidavit (which the Registrar is
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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.
of minors,
XVI. If either party to the intended marriage, not being a widower or a widow, Consent of parents or is under twenty-one years of age, the written consent of the father, or (if he be guardians to marriage dead of the mother, or (if both be dead) of the lawful guardian of such party, must be produced to the Registrar-General before he issue a certificate, or to the Governor before he grant a special license.
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XVII. If there be no parent or guardian of such party residing in the Colony, If no parent of the Registrar-General may give his consent in writing to the marriage, if, upon feneral may consent. inquiry, 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.
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Opposite may be forbidden.
XVIII. Any person whose consent is required as aforesaid may forbid the issue Issue of certificate of the Registrar-General's certificate by writing the word Forbidden" 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.
may inquire into the
XIX. If either of the parties to the intended marriage allege that the person The Registrar-General forbidding the issue is not authorized by law so to do, the Registrar-General shall night to forbid. inquire into the matter, and if he be satisfied that the person is not so authorized, he 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 such inquiry, or of any inquiry under section XVII, the Registrar-General may administer an oath to any person.
statement.
XX. If any person wilfully makes any false statement in any affidavit as Penalty for false aforesaid, or wilfully makes on oath any false statement, or gives any false answer in any such inquiry, 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.
XXI. Marriages may hereafter be celebrated in any licensed place of worship Marrings in licensed by any competent minister of the church, denomination, or body to which such places of worship. 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 eight 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 license.
Ministers may receive the fees ordinarily paid for the celebration of marriage.
XXII. The Registrar-General shall cause to be printed and delivered to the Marriage certificates, several 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 book the names of the parties and the date of the marriage.
XXIII. After the issue of a certificate by the Registrar-General the parties Marriage before the may, if they think fit, contract a marriage before the Registrar General, in the Registrar-General. 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 lifetime,
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