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Validity of marriages.

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No. 7 of 1875.

MARRIAGE.

(2) A marriage shall be null and void if both parties knowingly and wilfully acquiesce in its celebration in any place other than the office of the Registrar General or a licensed place of worship (except when authorised by special licence), or under a false name or without a certificate of notice or licence duly issued, or by a person not being a competent minister or the Registrar General or his deputy.

(3) But no marriage shall, after celebration, be deemed invalid by reason that any provision of this Ordinance, other than the foregoing, has not been complied with.

27. All marriages celebrated under this Ordinance shall be good and valid in law to all intents and purposes.

28. Every person who, knowing that the written consent of the proper person as herein prescribed has not been obtained, marries, or assists or procures any other person to narry, a person under the age of 21 years, not being a widow or widower, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be liable to imprisonment for any term not exceeding 2 years.

29. Any minister who-

(1) wilfully celebrates a marriage in the case of a minor, with- out such written consent as herein prescribed; or

(2) wilfully celebrates a marriage contrary to any other provi- sion of this Ordinance, or knowing that any provision of this Ordinance has not been complied with,

shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be liable to imprison- mont, without hard labour, for any term not exceeding 2 years.

30. Any minister who, after celebrating a marriage, fails to transmit the certificate thereof to the Registrar General within 7 days thereafter shall be liable to a fine not exceeding 50 dollars.

31. Every person who wilfully removes, defaces, alters, or destroys any copy of a notice of intended marriage shall be liable to a fine not exceeding 25 dollars.

32. Every person who knowingly and wilfully celebrates or pre-

dily competent to do tends to celebrate a marriage, not being,

and shall be liable to im- so, shall be guilty of a misdeme ning 2 years. prisonment for any term not excer

of 191, No. 62 of 1911 and No. 63 of 1911,

* As amended by No. 30, of 1911 and No. 62 of 1911.

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