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MARRIAGE.

or more witnesses, besides the officiating minister.

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(2.) No minister shall celebrate any marriage until the parties deliver to him the Registrar General's certificate or the Governor's special licence.

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marriage.

20.-(1.) The Registrar General shall cause to be prepared and Certificates of delivered to the several licensed places of worship books of marriage certificates in duplicate and with butts in the Form No. 5 in the First First Schc- Schedule to this Ordinance.

(2.) The certificate shall be signed in duplicate by the officiating minister, by the parties, and by two or more witnesses to the marriage.

(3.) The minister shall deliver one certificate to the parties, immedi- ately 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.

(4.) The officiating minister shall enter in the butt the names of the parties and the date of the marriage.

dule: Form No. 5.

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21.--(1.) After the issue of a certificate by the Registrar General, Marriage the parties may, if they think fit, contract a marriage before the Regis- Registrar trar General: Provided that, before they are permitted to do so, each of General. the parties shall sign a written declaration in the presence of the Registrar General, which he shall witness, in the Form No. 6 in the First Sche- First Schedule to this Ordinance.

(2.) Such declaration shall, if necessary, be interpreted to both or either of the parties in their or his or her own language in the presence of the Registrar General, and the person interpreting such declaration shall subscribe his name to it as interpreter.

(3.) The marriage shall take place in the presence of two or more witnesses, in the Registrar General's office, with open doors, and (except in case of a special licence) between the hours of ten o'clock in the forenoon and four o'clock in the afternoon, and in the following man- ner:

(a.) the Registrar General shall first address the parties to the

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"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 al- though no other rite of a civil or religious nature shall take place; and know ye further that this marriage cannot be dissolved during your lifetime, 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

dule: Form No. 6.

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