ORDINANCE No. 1 OF 1852.
Marriage.
Register Book or counterfoil copy or certified copy thereof any false entry of any marriage, or shall wilfully give any false certificate, or shall certify any writing to be a copy or extract of any Register Book or counterfoil thereof knowing the same Register Book or counterfoil copy to be false in any part thereof, shall be guilty of felony.
19. Any person charged with the duty of registering any marriage who shall discover any error to have been committed in the form or substance of any such entry may within calendar month next after the discovery of such error in the presence of the parties married, or in case of their death or absence in the presence of two other credible witnesses who shall respectively attest the same, correct the erroneous entry according to the truth of the case by entering in the margin without any alteration of the original entry and shall sign the marginal entry and add thereunto the day of the month and year when such correction shall be made, and he shall make the like marginal entry attested in the like manner in the aforesaid counterfoil certificate thereof.
20. Every person who shall knowingly and wilfully make any false oath or false declaration or sign any false notice or certificate required by this Ordinance for the purpose of procuring any marriage to be solemnized, and every person who shall forbid the issue of any Marriage Registrar's certificate by falsely representing himself or herself to be a person whose consent to such marriage is required by law, knowing such representation to be false, shall, on conviction, be liable to suffer the penalties of perjury.
21. Every prosecution under this Ordinance shall be commenced within the space of two years after the offence committed.
22. The Governor of the Colony aforesaid with the advice of the Executive Council thereof may from time to time appoint reasonable fees to be taken by Registrars of the parties intending marriage for receiving and publishing notices of marriage, and for issuing certificates, entering protests, and registering marriages under this Ordinance.
23. Nothing herein contained shall be held to invalidate or affect any marriage which may be solemnized in the Colony aforesaid by persons in Holy Orders, or the right of any officiating minister to receive the fees now usually paid for the performance or registration of any marriage.
24. All marriages solemnized under this Ordinance shall be good and valid in law to all intents and purposes.
To
SCHEDULES TO WHICH THIS ORDINANCE REFERS.
SCHEDULE Á.
Notice of Marriage.
To a Registrar of Marriages in the Colony of Hongkong :-
I hereby give you notice, that a marriage is intended to be had, within three calendar months from the date hereof between me and the other party herein named and described.
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Names.
Condition.
Rank or Profession.
Age.
Dwelling Place.
Length of Residence.
Witness my hand this day of 185
(Signed),
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ORDINANCE No. 1 OF 1852.
Marriage.
Register Book or counterfoil copy or certified copy thereof any false entry of any marriage, or shall wilfully give any false certificate, or shall certify any writing to be a copy or extract of any Register Book or counterfoil thereof knowing the same Register Book or counterfoil copy to be false in any part thereof, shall be guilty of felony. 19. Any person charged with the duty of registering any marriage who shall dis- cover any error to have been committed in the form or substance of any such entry
may
within calendar month next after the discovery of such error in the presence of the parties married, or in case of their death or absence in the presence of two other credible witnesses who shall respectively attest the same, correct the erroneous entry according to the truth of the case by entering in the margin without any alteration of the original entry and shall sign the marginal entry and add thereunto the day of the month and year when such correction shall be made, and he shall make the like marginal entry attested in the like manner in the aforesaid counterfoil certificate thereof.
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20. Every person who shall knowingly and wilfully make any false oath or false declaration or sign any false notice or certificate required by this Ordinance for the purpose of procuring any marriage to be solemnized, and every person who shall forbid the issue of any Marriage Registrar's certificate by falsely representing himself or herself to be a person whose consent to such marriage is required by law, knowing such representation to be false, shall, on conviction, be liable to suffer the penalties of perjury. 21. Every prosecution under this Ordinance shall be commenced within the space of two years after the offence committed.
22. The Governor of the Colony aforesaid with the advice of the Executive Council thereof may from time to time appoint reasonable fees to be taken by Registrars of the parties intending marriage for receiving and publishing notices of marriage, and for issuing certificates, entering protests, and registering marriages under this Ordinance.
23. Nothing herein contained shall be held to invalidate or affect any marriage. which may be solemnized in the Colony aforesaid by persons in Holy Orders, or the right of any officiating minister to receive the fees now usually paid for the performance or registration of any marriage.
24. All marriages solemnized under this Ordinance shall be good and valid in law to all intents and purposes.
To
SCHEDULES TO WHICH THIS ORDINANCE REFERS.
SCHEDULE Á,
Notice of Marriage.
a Registrar of Marriages in the Colony of Hongkong :-
I hereby give you notice, that a marriage is intended to be had, within three calendar months from the date hereof
between me and the other party herein named and described.
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Accidental errors may be correct-
ed.
Punishment of .. persons making fulse oath or cle- claration.
Limitation of prosecution.
Governor in Executive Cotin- cil to appoint fees to be taken by Registrars.
Marriages may continue to be solemnized as heretofore.
Marriages under this Ordinance valla.
Names.
Condition.
Rank or Profession.
Age.
Dwelling Place.
Length of Residence.
Witness my hand this.
day of
185
(Signed),
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