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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.

XXV. The Registrar.General shall register all certificates of marriage filed in his 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 his official Seal, 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.

XXVII. The Registrar-General may, when authorised by the Colonial Secre- tary, 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.

XXVIII. 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 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.

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.

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

XXX. 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, before the Supreme Court, 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 misdemeanor 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, before the Supreme Court, shall be liable at the discretion of the Court, to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding two years.

XXXI. Any minister who, after celebrating a marriage, fails to transmit the rificate of certificate thereof to the Registrar-General within seven days thereafter, shall be

liable to a penalty not exceeding 50 dollars.

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

XXXIII. 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 before the Supreme Court, shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding two years, with or without hard labour.

XXXIV. All penalties for offences against this Ordinance may be recovered

in a summary way before any magistrate.

XXXV. The fees specified in the schedule hereto shall be paid to the Registrar. General for the several matters to which they are applicable, and shall be by him paid into the Colonial Treasury.

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

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

Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 8th day of April, 1875.

(Signed) ALFRED LISTER, Clerk of Councils.

certify that on the

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SCHEDULE.

FORM (A).

Registrar-General's Certificate.

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

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.

Rank or Profession.

Age.

Dwelling Place.

187 187

Date of notice entered

Date of certificate given

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

to forbid the issue thereof.

Witness my hand this

day of

187 .

(Signed)

Registrar-General.

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

day of

187

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

187

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FORM (B).

Marriage Licence.

Ordinance No. 4 of 1875, Section XII.

Whereas on the

day of

187 notice was given to 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 1875, section 13:

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

day of

• The date of the notice.

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187

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(Signed)

Governor,

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