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ORDINANCE No. 14 OF 1875 . 1403


Marriage.


10. The Registrar General shall supply forms of notice gratuitously Forms of
notice to be
to persons applying for the same . supplied
gratis.
11. At any time not more than three months nor (except when the Registrar
General may
Governor grants a licence ) less than fifteen days after the giving of such issue certifi
cate.
notice, the Registrar General shall, on the request of either of the parties ,
issue a certificate in the form A in the schedule hereto .

12. The Governor may , at any time after a party has given notice After notice
the Governor
as aforesaid, grant a licence in the form B in the schedule hereto, autho may grant a
licence.
rising the Registrar General to issue his certificate on or after any day
named in such licence .

13. If the marriage do not take place within three months after If marriage
do not take
giving the above notice, the notice given and all proceedings thereupon place infresh
three
months
shall be utterly void, and fresh notice will be required before any marriage notice to be
given.
can be had between the parties .

14. The Governor may, when he sees fit , grant a special licence in Special
licence in case
the form C in the schedule hereto, dispensing with notice as aforesaid, or of emergency .

with the certificate ofthe Registrar General, or with both, and authorising
the celebration of a marriage between the parties named at a place and at
a time specified in the licence .
The Governor may, when he sees fit, grant such licence without
payment of any fee, or on payment of such reduced fee as under the
special circumstances of the case he thinks sufficient.

15. Before the Registrar General issues any certificate, and before Affidavit
before issue
the Governor grants any licence, one of the parties to the intended of certificate
or licence.
marriage shall appear personally before the Registrar General and make

affidavit ( which the Registrar General is hereby authorised to take ) that
he or she believes that there is not any impediment of kindred or alliance
or any other lawful hindrance to the marriage, and either that the consent
of the parties required by law to consent to the marriage has been obtained
or that no such consent is required .

16. If either party to the intended marriage, not being a widower Consent of
parents or
or a widow, is under twenty-one years of age, the written consent of the guardians to
marriage of .
father, or ( if he be dead or non compos mentis) of the mother, or ( if both minors.
be dead or non compotes mentis ) of the lawful guardian of such party,

must be produced to the Registrar General before he issues a certificate,
or to the Governor before he grants a licence.