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ORDINANCE No. 1 OF 1852 . 261


Marriage.


Register Book or counterfoil copy or certified copy thereof any false entry of any
marriage, or shall wilfully give any false certificate, or shall certify any writing to be
a copy or extract of any Register Book or counterfoil thereof knowing the same
Register Book or counterfoil copy to be false in any part thereof, shall be guilty of felony.
Accidental errors
19. Any person charged with the duty of registering any marriage who shall dis may be correct
ed.
cover any error to have been committed in the form or substance of any such entry
may within one calendar month next after the discovery of such error in the presence
of the parties married, or in case of their death or absence in the presence of two other
credible witnesses who shall respectively attest the same, correct the erroneous entry
according to the truth of the case by entering in the margin without any alteration of
the original entry and shall sign the marginal entry and add thereunto the day of the
month and year when such correction shall be made, and he shall make the like
marginal entry attested in the like manner in the aforesaid counterfoil certificate thereof.
20. Every person who shall knowingly and wilfully make any false oath or false Punishment of
persons making
false oath or de
declaration or sign any false notice or certificate required by this Ordinance for the claration.
purpose of procuring any marriage to be solemnized, and every person who shall forbid
the issue of any Marriage Registrar's certificate by falsely representing himself or
herself to be a person whose consent to such marriage is required by law, knowing such
representation to be false , shall , on conviction, be liable to suffer the penalties of perjury.
21. Every prosecution under this Ordinance shall be commenced within the space Limitation of
prosecution.
of two years after the offence committed.
22. The Governor of the Colony aforesaid with the advice of the Executive Governor in
Executive Conn
Council thereof may from time to time appoint reasonable fees to be taken by Registrars ci! to appoint fees
to be taken by
Registrars.
of the parties intending marriage for receiving and publishing notices of marriage, and
for issuing certificates, entering protests, and registering marriages under this Ordinance.
23. Nothing herein contained shall be held to invalidate or affect any marriage Marriages may
continue to be
which may be solemnized in the Colony aforesaid by persons in Holy Orders , or the solemnized as
heretofore.
right of any officiating minister to receive the fees now usually paid for the performance
or registration of any marriage.
Marriages under
24. All marriages solemnized under this Ordinance shall be good and valid in law this Ordinance
valid.
to all intents and purposes.

SCHEDULES TO WHICH THIS ORDINANCE REFERS.
SCHEDULE 4 .
Notice of Marriage.
To. a Registrar of Marriages in the Colony of Hongkong :•
I hereby give you notice, that a marriage is intended to be had, within three calendar months from the date hereof
between me and the other party herein named and described.

Names. Condition. Rank or Profession. Age. Dwelling Place. Length of Residence.




Witness my hand this. day of 185
(Signed),.