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Registrar of marriages and deputies.
The Governor may licence places of worship.
Licences to be gazetted.
Notice of intended marriage.
ORDINANCE No. 4 OF 1875.
Marriage.
5. The Registrar General shall be registrar of marriages, and to assist him, the Governor may appoint one or more deputy registrars, and such deputies may celebrate marriages, and may exercise all the other powers, and perform all the duties conferred upon the Registrar General by this Ordinance, and all acts done by a deputy shall be as valid as if done by the Registrar General.
6. The Governor may license any place of public worship to be a place for the celebration of marriages, and may, at any time, cancel any such licence.
7. Whenever the Governor grants or cancels any such licence, the Registrar General shall give public notice thereof in the Government Gazette.
Preliminaries to marriage.
8. Whenever, after this Ordinance takes effect, any persons desire to marry, one of the parties to the intended marriage shall give notice thereof to the Registrar General in the following form:-
NOTICE OF MARRIAGE.
To the Registrar General of Hongkong.
I hereby give you notice that a marriage is intended to be had, within three months from the date hereof, between me and the other party herein named.
Name.
Condition,
Rank or profession.
Age.
Dwelling place.
Consent, if any, by whom given.
Name of Bachelor or Widower,
Name of Bride, Spinster or Widow,
Witness my hand this day of 187
(Signature of party giving the notice.)
Notices to be filed and copies made by the Registrar General.
Forms of notice to be supplied gratis.
Every such notice shall be signed by the party giving notice.
9. The Registrar General shall file every such notice in his office; he shall expose one copy of such notice in a conspicuous place open to the public, and keep it so exposed until he issue a certificate as hereinafter mentioned, or until the three months expire; he shall also enter a copy of the said notice with the date of such entry in a book to be called the Marriage Notice Book, and shall allow any person to inspect such book during office hours without fee.
10. The Registrar General shall supply forms of notice gratuitously to persons applying for the same.
1364
Registrar of
marriages and deputies.
The Governor may licence
places of worship.
Licences to be gazetted.
Notice of intended marriage.
ORDINANCE No. 4 OF 1875.
Marriage.
5. The Registrar General shall be registrar of marriages, and to assist him, the Governor may appoint one or more deputy registrars, and such deputies may celebrate marriages, and may exercise all the other powers, and perform all the duties conferred upon the Registrar General by this Ordinance, and all acts done by a deputy shall be as valid as if done by the Registrar General.
6. The Governor may license any place of public worship to be a place for the celebration of marriages, and may, at any time, cancel any such licence.
7. Whenever the Governor grants or cancels any such licence, the Registrar General shall give public notice thereof in the Government Gazette.
Preliminaries to marriage.
8. Whenever, after this Ordinance takes effect, any persons desire to marry, one of the parties to the intended marriage shall give notice thereof to the Registrar General in the following form:-
NOTICE OF MARRIAGE.
To the Registrar General of Hongkong.
I hereby give you notice that a marriage is intended to be had, within three months from the date hereof, between me and the other party herein named.
Name.
Condition,
Rank
or
Age.
profession.
Dwelling place.
Consent, if any, by whom given.
Name of
Bachelor
or
Bridegroom,
Widower,
Name of Bride,
Spinster
or
"Widow,
Witness my
hand this
day of
187
(Signature of party giving the notice.)
Notices to be filed and copies made by the Registrar General.
Forms of notice to be supplied
gratis.
Every such notice shall be signed by the party giving notice.
9. The Registrar General shall file every such notice in his office; he shall expose one copy of such notice in a conspicuous place open to the public, and keep it so exposed until he issue a certificate as hereinafter mentioned, or until the three months expire; he shall also enter a copy of the said notice with the date of such entry in a book to be called the Marriage Notice Book, and shall allow any person to inspect such book during office hours without fee.
10. The Registrar General shall supply forms of notice gratuitously to persons applying for the same.
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