CO129-271 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1896 [1-4] — Page 262

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BILL

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REGE 20 MAR 16,

Entitled an ordinance to amend "The Marriage Ordinance,1875

Be it enacteu,do.

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1. This ordinance may be cited as "The Mar-

riage Law Asenament" Ordinance, 1896, and shall be read with

anu construed as one ordinance with Ordinance 14 of 1875.

2. Section 39 of Ordinance 14 of 1875 is

hereby repealed and in lieu thereof it is hereby enacted as

follows:-

* This ordinance shall apply to all marriages

where neither of the parties has an undivorced husband or

wife living.

3. In the event of two parties wishing to

contract a marriage before the Registrar General under the

provisions of section 24 of urdinance 14 of 1870, they shall

each of them, before being permitted to do so,sign a written

acelaration in the presence of the Registrar General, which

he shall witness, in the form set out in schedule A to this

urainance. Such declaration shall, il necessary, be inter-

preted to both or either of the parties in their own lan-

glage in the presence of the Registrar General, anu the

person interpreting such declaration shall subscribe Lis

name to it as interpreter.

Schedule A