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No. 7 of 1875.
MARRIAGE.
Validity of marriages.
Marrying, etc., minor without consent of proper person.
Offences by minister.
Penalty for failing to transmit certificate.
Penalty for removing, duly issued, or by a person not being a competent minister or the Registrar of Marriages or his deputy, or if either party to the marriage is at the time of its celebration under the age of sixteen years.
(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 marry, a person under the age of twenty-one years, not being a widow or widower, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be liable to imprisonment for any term not exceeding two years.
29. Any minister who-
(1) wilfully celebrates a marriage in the case of a minor, without such written consent as herein prescribed: or
(2) wilfully celebrates a marriage contrary to any other provision 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 imprisonment, without hard labour, for any term not exceeding two years or to a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars.
30. Any minister who, after celebrating a marriage, fails to transmit the certificate thereof to the Registrar of Marriages within seven days thereafter shall be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty 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 twenty-five dollars.
+ As amended by No. 24 of 1936 (15.6.35).
+ As amended by No. 14 of 1996 [15: 10.251]
154
No. 7 of 1875.
MARRIAGE.
Validity of marriages.
Marrying, etc., minor without
consent of
proper person.
Offences by minister.
+
Penalty for
failing to transmit certificate.
Penalty for
removing,
duly issued, or by a person not being a competent minister or the Registrar of Marriages or his deputy, or if either party to the marriage is at the time of its celebration under the age of sixteen years.
(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 marry, a person under the age of twenty-one years, not being a widow or widower, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be liable to imprisonment for any term not exceeding two years.
29. Any minister who-
(1) wilfully celebrates a marriage in the case of a minor, without such written consent as herein prescribed: or
(2) wilfully celebrates a marriage contrary to any other provision 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- ment, without hard labour, for any term not exceeding two years or to a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars.
30. Any minister who, after celebrating a marriage, fails to transmit the certificate thereof to the Registrar of Marriages within seven days thereafter shall be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty dollars.
31. Every person who wilfully removes, defaces, alters, or etc., notice. destroys any copy of a notice of intended marriage shall be
liable to a fine not exceeding twenty-five dollars.
+ As amended by No. 24 of 1936 15.6.35).
+
As amended by No. 14 af 1996 [15: 10.251-
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