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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 13TH MARCH, 1875.
Registrar General may
issue certifi-
cate.
After notice
XI. At any time not more than three months nor (except when the Governor grants a licence) 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 the Governor notice as aforesaid, grant a licence in the form B in the schedule hereto authorizing the Registrar General to issue his certificate on or after any day named in such licence.
may grant a licence.
In three
If marriage do XIII. If the marriage do not take place within three months not take place after giving the above notice, the notice given and all other months fresh proceedings thereupon shall be utterly void, and fresh notice will be required before any marriage can be had between the parties.
notice to be given. Special licence in case of
emergency.
Affidavit
certificate or special licence.
XIV. The Governor may, when he sees fit, grant a special licence in the form C in the schedule hereto, dispensing with notice as aforesaid, or with the certificate of the Registrar Ge- neral, 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 licence.
XV. Before the Registrar General issues any certificate, before issue of and before the Governor grants any special licence, one of the parties to the intended marriage shall appear personally before the Registrar General and make affidavit (which the Registrar is hereby authorized to take) that he or she believes that there is not any impediment of kindred or alliance or any other lawfur 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.
Consent of parents or guardians to marriage of minors.
If no parent or
XVI. If either party to the intended marriage not being a widower or a widow, is under twenty-one years of age, the written consent of the father, or (if he be 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 licence.
XVII. If there be no parent or guardian of such party resid- guardian, Re- ing in the Colony, the Registrar General may give his consent gistrar General
in writing to the marriage if upon enquiry the marriage appear may consent.
to him to be proper, and such consent shall be as effectual as if the father or mother or guardian had consented.
Issue of certifi- cate may be forbidden.
The Registrar
enquire into the right to forbid.
XVIII. Any person whose consent is required as aforesaid may forbid the issue of the Registrar General's certificate by writing the word "Forbidden opposite 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 and all proceedings thereupon shall be void.
XIX. If either of the parties to the intended marriage allege General may that the person forbidding the issue is not authorized by law so to do, the Registrar General shall enquire into the matter, and if he be satisfied that the person is not so authorized, be 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 enquiry, or of any enquiry under section XVII, the Registrar General may administer an oath to any person.
Penalty for
XX. If any person wilfully makes any false statement in false statement. any affidavit as aforesaid, or wilfully makes on oath any false statement or gives any false answer in any such enquiry, he shall, on conviction before the Supreme Court, be liable to be impri- soned for any term not exceeding two years with or without hard labour.
Celebration of marriage.
Marriage in XXI. Marriages may hereafter be celebrated in any licensed licensed places place of worship by any competent minister of the church, deno- of worship.
mination, or body to which such 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.
Marriage cer- tificates.
No minister shall celebrate any marriage until the parties deliver to him the Registrar General's certificate or the Governor's special licence."
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 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.
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