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ORDINANCE No. 4 OF 1875. 1367


Marriage.


Each of the parties shall then say to the other "I call upon all persons here present
to witness that I , A.B. , do take thee C.D. to be my lawful wife (or husband) .”

The Registrar General and the parties and witnesses shall thereupon sign
duplicate certificates in the form and manner hereinbefore prescribed.

The Registrar General shall deliver one certificate to the parties and shall file
the other in his office.


24. Whenever the Governor's special licence authorises the celebration of a Marriages by
special licence at
marriage at a place other than a registered place of worship, or the office of the other places.

Registrar General, the Registrar General upon taking the affidavit of one of the parties
to the marriage, shall deliver to him a blank certificate of marriage in duplicate, and
the minister celebrating the marriage, the parties and two witnesses shall sign the
same, in manner hereinbefore prescribed, and the minister shall deliver one certificate
to the parties immediately 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.


25. The Registrar General shall register all certificates of marriage filed in his Certificates how
filed.
office in such order and manner as he thinks best suited for easy reference thereto.


26. Any certificate of marriage filed in the office of the Registrar General, or a Certificates or
certified copies
to be evidence.
copy thereof, provided it purport to be signed and certified as a true copy by the
Registrar General, and to be sealed or stamped with his official seal, shall be admissi
ble as evidence of the marriage to which the same relates in any court of justice, or
before any person now or hereafter having by law or by consent of parties authority to
hear, receive and examine evidence.


27. The Registrar General may, when authorised by the Colonial Secretary, correct Correction of
errors in
certificate.
any clerical error in any certificate of marriage upon production to him of the certifi
cate delivered to the parties, and shall authenticate every such correction by his signa
ture or by marking the same with his initials, and the date of making the correction .


28. No marriage shall be valid which would be null and void on the ground of Invalid mar
riages.
kindred or affinity in England or Wales.

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 li
censed place of worship (except when authorised by special licence) , or under a false
name or names, or without certificate of notice or licence duly issued, or by a person
not being a competent minister or the Registrar General or his deputy.

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.