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RECORD OFFICE

Reference

L. I.

C.O.

882

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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON

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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 then 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 authorizes the celebration of a marriage at a place other than a registered place of worship, or 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 hereinhefore 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.

XXV. The Registrar-General shall register all certificates of marriage filed in lus office in such order and manner as he thinks best suited for easy reference thereto.

XXVI. Any certificate of marriage filed in the office of the Registrar-General, or a copy thereof, provided it purport to be signed and certified as a true copy by the Registrar-General, and to be sealed or stamped with the scal 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 authority to bear, receive, and examine evidence.

XXVII. No marriage shall be valid which would be null and void on 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 authorized 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 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.

XXVII. All marriages celebrated under this Ordinance shall be good and valid in the law to all intents and purposes.

XXIX. Whosoever knowing that the written consent of the proper person as herein prescribed has not been obtained shall marry or assist or procure any other person to marry a minor under the age of twenty-one years, not being a widow or widower, shall be guilty of a misdemeanour, and upon conviction thereof shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding two years, with or without hard labour.

Any minister shall be guilty of a misdemeanour who wilfully celebrates a marriage, in the case of a minor, without such written consent as herein prescribed, or who wilfully celebrates a marriage contrary to any other provision of this Ordinance, or knowing that any provision of this Ordinance has not been complied with, and upon conviction thereof shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding two years,

XXX. Any Minister who, alter celebrating a marriage, fails to transmit the ruificate of certificate thereof to the Registrar-General within seven days thereafter, shall be

liable to a penalty not exceeding 50 dollars.

⚫ defacing

duly rele-

rriage.

XXXI. Whosoever wilfully removes, defaces, alters, or destroys any copy of a a notice of intended marriage, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding 25 dollars.

XXXII. Whosoever knowingly and wilfully celebrates or pretends to celebrate

a marriage not being legally competent so to do, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and being convicted thereof, shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding two years, with or without hard labour.

XXXIII. All penalties for offences against this Ordinance may be recovered in a summary way before any Magistrate.

XXXIV. The fees specified in the schedule hereto shall be paid to the Regis-

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trar General for the several matters to which they are applicable, and shall be by him paid into the Colonial Treasury.

XXXV. The forms contained in the schedule hereto may be used in the cases Forms. to which they are applicable with such alterations as circumstances may render

necessary.

to come in force.

XXXVI. This Ordinance shall apply to all marriages where one or both the Application of parties professes the Christian religion, and shall take effect on a day to be here- Ordinance, and when after proclaimed by the Governor, and from and after such day, Ordinance No. 1 of Repeal. 1852 shall be, and the same is hereby, repealed.

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SCHEDULL.

FORM (A).

Registrar-General's Certificate.

I

I,

Registrar-General for the Colony of Hong Kong, do hereby certify, that on the

day of

notice was duly entered in the Marriage Notice Book of the said Colony of the marriage intended to be had between the parties herein named and described.

Names

Condition.

Day of notice entered

Day of certificate given

Rank or Profession. Age.

Dwelling Place.

187

187

The issue of this certificate has not been forbidden by any person authorized

to forbid the issue thereof.

Witness my hand this

day of (Signed)

187

•

Registrar-General.

This certificate will be void unless the marriage is solemnized on or before the

187

day

of

This certificate is issued by virtue of the Governor's licence dated the

187 day of

FORM (B).

Marriage Licence.

Ordinance No.

of 1874, Section XII.

187 day of

notice was given to

Whereas on the the Registrar-General of a marriage intended to be had between A. B. and C. D. therein mentioned, and the said A. B. desires to obtain a licence for the immediate issue of a certificate of such notice, and has made before the said Registrar- General, the affidavit required by the Marriage Ordinance of 1874, section XV.

Now, therefore, in pursuance of the said Ordinance, I do hereby authorize the said Registrar-General to issue the said certificate, at any time on or after the

day of

and within three calendar months of the said day of

Given under my hand this

(131)

day of

187

(Signed)

Governor.

C

The date of the notice.