1366
Penalty for false statement.
Marriage in licensed places of worship.
Marriage certificates.
Marriage before the Registrar General
ORDINANCE No. 4 OF 1875.
Marriage.
For the purposes of such enquiry, or of any enquiry under section 17, the Registrar General may administer an oath to any person.
20. If any person wilfully makes any false statement in 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 imprisoned for any term not exceeding two years with or without hard labour.
Celebration of marriage.
21. Marriages may hereafter be celebrated in any licensed place of worship by any competent minister of the church, denomination, 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 six o'clock in the morning and six in the afternoon, and in the presence of two or more witnesses besides the officiating minister.
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.
22. The Registrar General shall cause to be prepared 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.
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.
The officiating minister shall enter in the butt the names of the parties and the date of the marriage.
23. After the issue of a certificate by the Registrar General, the parties may, if they think fit, contract a marriage before the Registrar General, in the presence of two witnesses, in the Registrar General's office, with open doors, between the hours of ten in the forenoon and four o'clock in the afternoon, in the following manner:
The Registrar General shall first address the parties to the following effect:--- "Know ye, A.B. and C.D., that by the public taking of each other as man and wife in my presence and in the presence of the persons now here, and by the subsequent attestation thereof by signing your names to that effect, you become legally married to each other although no other rite of a civil or religious nature shall take place; and know ye further that this marriage cannot be dissolved during your life time, except by a valid judgment of divorce, and that if either of you, before the death of the other, shall contract another marriage while this remains undissolved, you will thereby be guilty of bigamy, and be liable to the punishment inflicted for that grievous offence."
1366
Penalty for false statement.
Marriage in licensed places of worship.
Marriage cer- tificates.
Marriage before. the Registrar General
ORDINANCE No. 4 OF 1875.
Marriage.
For the purposes of such enquiry, or of any enquiry under section 17, the Registrar General may administer an oath to any person.
20. If any person wilfully makes any false statement in 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 imprisoned for any term not exceeding two years with or without hard labour.
Celebration of marriage.
21. Marriages may hereafter be celebrated in any licensed place, of worship by any competent minister of the church, denomination, 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 six o'clock in the morning and six in the afternoon, and in the presence of two or more witnesses besides the officiating minister.
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.
22. The Registrar General shall cause to be prepared 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.
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.
The officiating minister shall enter in the butt the names of the parties and the date of the marriage.
23. After the issue of a certificate by the Registrar General, the parties may, if they think fit, contract a marriage before the Registrar General, in the presence of two witnesses, in the Registrar General's office, with open doors, between the hours of ten in the following manner:
o'clock in the forenoon and four o'clock in the afternoon, and he presence of two
The Registrar General, shall first address the parties to the following effect:--- "Know ye, A.B. and C.D., that by the public taking of each other as man and wife in my presence and in the presence of the persons now here, and by the subsequent attestation thereof by signing your names to that effect, you become legally married to each other although no other rite of a civil or religious nature shall take place; and know ye further that this marriage cannot be dissolved during your life time, except by a valid judgment of divorce, and that if either of you, before the death of the other, shall contract another inarriage while this remains undissolved, you will thereby be guilty of bigamy, and be liable to the punishment inflicted for that grievous offence."
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