MARRIAGE ORDINANCE

MARRIAGE ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 181.

THE MARRIAGE ORDINANCE.

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS.

Section . Page
1. Short title ........................... ... ... ... ... 403
2. Interpretation ................ ... ... ... ... ... ... 403
3. Registrar of Marriages and deputy registrars ... ... ... 403
4. Licensing of places of worship...... ... ... ... ... ... ... 403
5. Notification of such licence .......... ... ... ... ... ... 403
6. Notice of intended marriage ........... ... ... ... ... ... 404
7. Filing and exhibition of notice..... ... ... ... ... ... ... 404
8. Supply of forms .................... ... ... .... ... ... 404
9. Issue of certificate ............... ... ... ... ... ... ... 404
10. Grant of licence ..................... ... ... ... 404
11. Notice void unless marriage within three months ... ... 404
12. Grant of special licence in case of emergency ... ... ... 405
13. Affidavit before issue of certificate or grant of licence ... 405
14. No licence or certificate if either party under sixteen 405
15. Production of written consent .....405
16 Consent by Registrar for parent or guardian ... ... ... 405
17. Right to forbid issue of certificate ... ... ... ... ... 406
18. Registrar may inquire into right to forbid ... 406
19. Appeal against decision of Registrar ... ... ... ... ... 406
20. Celebration of marriage in licensed place of worship ... 406
21. Certificates of marriage ........ .... ... ... ... ... 407
22. Marriage before Registrar ......... ... ... ... ... ... 407
23. Marriage by sDecial licence at other place ... ... ... 408
24. Registration of certificates of marriage ... ... ... ... 408
25. Effect of certificate of marriage or certified copy ... ... 408
26. Correction of error in certificate of marriage ... ... ... 409
27. Searches may be made and certified copies granted ... 409
28. Invalid marriages ....................... ... ... ... 409
29. Validity of marriages ................... ... ... ... ... 409
.10. Marrying. etc. minor without consent of proper person ... 409
31. Offences by minister .............. ... ... ... ... ... 409
32. Penalty for failing to transmit certificate ... ... ... ... 410
23. Penalty for removing etc. notice ........ ... ... ... ... 410
34. Penalty on unauthorized person celebrating marriage ... - 410
35. Fines on summary conviction .............. ... ... ... 410
36. Use of forms ............................ ... ... ... ... 410
37. Fees ........................... ... ... ... ... 410
38. Reduction or remission of fees ........... ... ... ... 410
39. ADplication of Ordinance ................. ... ... ... ... 410
40. Marriage in articulo mortis .............. ... ... ... ... 4A
41. Marriages under Ordinance to be Christian or civil equivalent. 412
42. Reciprocal recognition of certificates and notice with United
Kingdom ... ... ... ... .. . ... ... ... ... ... ... 412

FIRST SCHEDULE.
(Forms)

SECOND SCHEDULE.
(Fees)





CHAPTER 181.

MARRIAGE.

To provide a general register of marriages celebrated in the
Colony, to authorize in certain cases marriages in articulo
mortis, aitd to facilitate marriages between British
subjects resident in this Colony and the United
Kingdom.

[1st March, 1876.]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Marriage
Ordinance.

2. In this Ordinance 'Registrar' means the Registrar
of Marriages appointed under section 3 and any deputy
registrar of marriages so appointed.

3. (1) It shall be lawful for the Governor from time
to time to appoint such person as he may please to be
Registrar of Marriages, and to appoint deputy registrars
of marriages.

(2) It shall not be necessary in any such appointment
to name any particular individual and the appointment may
be of the holder of an office in the name of the office, in
which case the person for the time being performing the
duties of such office shall be deemed to have been appointed
to be Registrar or a deputy registrar, as the case may be,
and all the powers and duties expressed by this or any
other Ordinance to be conferred or imposed on the Registrar
or on a deputy registrar, as the case may be, shall frorn
time to time be deemed to have been conferred or imposed
on the person for the time being performing the duties of
such office. [2]

4.The Governor may license any place of public
worship to be a place for the celebration of marriages, and
may at any time cancel any such licence. [3]

5. Whenever the Governor grants or cancels any such
licence, the Registrar shall give public notice thereof in
the Gazette. [4]





6. (1) Whenever any person desire to marry, one of
the parties to the intended marriage shall give notice thereof
to the Registrar in the prescribed form.

(2) Every such notice shall be signed by the party
giving the notice.

7. (1) The Registrar shall file every such notice in
his office.

(2) He shall exhibit one copy of such notice at the
office of the Registrar and may, if he thinks fit, exhibit
copies in other conspicuous places open to the public, and
shall keep every such copy so exhibited until he issues a
certificate as hereinafter mentioned or until the three months
referred to in section ii expire.

(3) He shall also enter a copy of the said notice, with
the date of such entry, in a book to be called the marriage
notice book. [6]

(4) He shall allow any person to inspect such book
during office hours without fee.

8. TheRegistrar shall supply forms of notice
gratuitously to persons applying for the same. [7]

9.At any time not more than three months or (except
when the Governor grants a licence) less than fifteen days
after the giving of such notice, the Registrar shall, on the
request of either of the parties, issue a certificate in the
prescribed form. [8]

10. The Governor may, at any time after a party has
given notice as aforesaid, grant a licence in the prescribed
form authorizing the Registrar to issue his certificate on or
after any day named in such licence. [9]

11. If the marriage does not take place within three
months after the giving of the above-mentioned notice, the
notice given and all proceedings thereupon shall be utterly
void, and fresh notice will be required before any marriage
can be had between the parties. [10]





12. (1) The Governor may, when he sees fit, grant a
special licence in the prescribed form dispensing with notice
as aforesaid,, or with the certificate of the Registrar or with
both, and authorizing the celebration of a marriage between
the parties named at a place and at a time specified in the
licence.

(2) The Governor may grant such licence without
payment of any fee, or on payment of such reduced fee as,
in the special circumstances of the case, he may think
sufficient.

13. Before the Registrar issues any certificate and
before the Governor grants any licence, one of the parties
to the intended marriage shall appear personally before the
Registrar and make affidavit (which the Registrar is hereby
authorized 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. [12]

14. No licence of the Governor and no certificate of the
Registrar shall be issued under this Ordinance if either
party to the intended marriage is under the age of sixteen
years. [12A]

15. If either party to the intended marriage, not being
a widower or a widow, is of or over sixteen and under
ewenty-one years of age, the written consent of the father,
or, if he is dead or non compos mentis, of the mother, or, if
both are dead or non compos mentis, of the lawful guardian
of such party, must be produced to the Registrar before
he issues a certificate or to the Governor before he grants a
licence. [13]

16. If there is no parent or guardian of such party
residing in the Colony and capable of consenting, the
Registrar may give his consent in writing to the marriage,
if on inquiry the inarriage appears to him to be proper, and
such consent shall be as effectual as if the father or mother
or guardian had consented. [14]





17. (1) Any person whose consent is required as afore-
said may forbid the issue of the certificate of the Registrar
by writing the word 'Forbidden' opposite the entry in the
marriage notice book, and by signing his name and the
character in which he forbids the issue.

(2) If the issue of any certificate is so forbidden, the
notice and all proceedings thereupon shall be void. [15]

18. (1) If either of the parties to the intended marriage
alleges that the person forbidding the issue of the certificate
is not authorized by law to do so, the Registrar shall inquire
into the matter, and if he is satisfied that the person is not
so authorized, he may proceed to issue the certificate in due
course, without reckoning the time that has elapsed since
the issue was forbidden.

(2) For the purposes of such inquiry or of any inquiry
under section 16 the Registrar may administer an oath to
any person. [16]

19. (1) If the Registrar considers that the person
forbidding the issue of the certificate is authorized to. do
so, either of the parties to the intended marriage may appeal
by petition to the Supreme Court, and the court or judge
may hear and determine the matter of the petition in a
summary way.
(2) Such determination shall be final;and the
Registrar shall proceed in accordance therewith, without
reckoning the time that has elapsed since the issue was
forbidden. [17]

20. (1) Marriages may be celebrated in any licensed
place of worship by any competent minister of the church,
denomination, or body to which such place of worship
belongs, and according to the rites or usages of marriage
observed in such church, denomination, or body, provided
that the marriage is celebrated with open doors, and (except
in case of a special licence) between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m., and
in the presence of two or more witnesses, besides the
officiating minister.

(2) No minister shall celebrate any marriage until the
parties deliver to him the certificate of the Registrar or the
Governor's special licence. [19]





21. (1) The Registrar shall cause to be prepared and
delivered to the several licensed places of worship books of
marriage certificates in duplicate and with butts in the
prescribed form.

(2) The certificate shall be signed in duplicate by the
officiating minister, by the parties, and by two or more
witnesses to the marriage.

(3) The minister shall deliver one certificate to the
parties, immediately after the marriage, and shall within
seven days thereafter transmit the other to the Registrar
who shall file the same in his office.

(4) The officiating minister shall enter in the butt the
names of the parties and the date of the marriage. [20]

22. (1) After the issue of a certificate by the
Registrar, or the grant of a special licence by the Governor,
the parties may, if they think fit, contract a marriage before
the Registrar : Provided that, before they are permitted
to do so, each of. the parties shall sign a written declaration
in the presence of the Registrar, which he shall witness, in
the prescribed form.

(2) Such declaration shall, if necessary, be interpreted
to both or either of the parties in their or his or her own
language in the presence of the Registrar, and the person
interpreting such declaration shall subscribe his name to
it as interpreter.

(3) The marriage shall take place in the presence of
two or more witnesses, in the office of the Registrar, with
open doors, and (except in case of a special licence) between
io a.m. and 4 p.m., and in the following manner-
(a)the Registrar shall first address the parties to the
following effect-
'Know ye, A.B., and C.D., that, by the public
taking of each other as man and wife in iny presence
and in the presence of the persons now here, and by
the subsequent attestation thereof by signing your
names to that effect, you becoine legally married to
each other although no other rite of a civil or
religious nature shall take place ; and know ye
further that this marriage cannot be dissolved during





your lifetime, except by a valid judgment of divorce,
and that if either of you, before the death of lite
other, shall contract another marriage while this
remains undissolved, you will thereby be*guilty of
bigamy, and be liable to the punishment inflicted for
that grievous offence.'; and
(b) 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].'

(4) The Registrar and the parties and witnesses shall
thereupon sign duplicate certificates in the form and manner
hereinbefore prescribed.
(s) The Registrar shall deliver one certificate to the
parties and shall file the other in his office. [21]

23. Whenever the Governor's special licence authorizes
the celebration of a marriage at a place other than a
registered place of worship or the office of the Registrar,
the-Registrar, on taking the affidavit of one of the parties
to the marriage, shall deliver to him or her a blank certificate
of marriage in duplicate, and the minister celebrating the
marriage, the parties, and two or more 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 within seven days thereafter, and the
Registrar shall file the same in his office. [22]

24. The Registrar shall register all certificates of
marriage filed in his office in such order and manner as he
thinks best suited for easy reference thereto. [23]

25. Any certificate of marriage filed in the office of the
Registrar, or a copy thereof, provided it purports to be
signed and certified as a true copy by the Registrar andto
be sealed or stamped with his official seal, shall be admis-
sible as evidence of the marriage to which the same relates
in any court or before any person having by law or by
consent of parties authority to hear, receive, and examine
evidence. [24]





26. The Registrar may, when authorized by the
Colonial Secretary to do so, correct any clerical error in any
certificate of marriage on production to him of the certificate
delivered to the parties, and shall authenticate every such
correction by his signature, or by marking the same with
his initials, and the date of making the correction. [25]

27. The Registrar may allow searches to be made
amongst all certificate, licences, registers, and indexes in
his possession and give ' a certified copy of any entry therein,
and issue a certificate to the effect that there is no record
of a marriage between certain persons named having taken
place. [25A ]

28. (1) No marriage shall be valid which would be
null and void on the ground of kindred or affinity in
England or Wales.

(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 or a licensed
place of worship (except when authorized by a special
licence), or under a false name or without a certificate of
notice or licence duly issued, or by a person not being a
competdnt minister or the Registrar 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. [26]

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

30. Any person who, knowing that the written consent
of the proper person as herein prescribed lias not been
obtained, marries, or assists or procures any other person
to marry, a person tinder the age of twenty-one years, not
being a widow or widower, shall be guilty of a iiiis
demeanor triable summarily aiid liable to imprisonment for
two years.. [28]

31. Any minister who-
(a) wilfully celebrates a marriage in the case of a





minor, without such written consent as herein
prescribed; or
(b)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 triable summarily and
liable to a fine of two thousand dollars or imprisonment
without hard labour for two years. [291

32. Any minister who, after celebrating a marriage, fails
to transmit the certificate thereof to the Registrar within
seven days thereafter shall be liable to a fine of two
hundred and fifty dollars. [30]

33. Any person who wilfully removes, defaces, alters,
or destroys any copy of a notice of intended marriage
shall be liable to a fine of two hundred dollars. [31 ]

34. Any person who knowingly and wilfully celebrates
or pretends to celebrate a marriage, not being legally com-
petent to do so, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor triable
summarily and liable to imprisonment for two years. [32]

35. All fines for offences against this Ordinance may
be recovered in a summary way before a magistrate. [33]

36. The forms in the First Schedule may be used in
the cases to which they are applicable with such alterations
as circumstances may render necessary. [34]

37. The fees specified in the Second Schedule shall be
paid to t he Registrar for the several matters to which they
are applicable :Provided always that it shall be lawful
for the Governor in Council to make such alterations
therein, including alterations, increasing or decreasing fees,
as shall be deemed advisable. [35]

38. The Registrar may, in any case where he is
satisfied of the poverty of the parties, reduce the amount
of the said fees or remit them altogether. [36]

39. (1) This Ordinance shall apply to all marriages
celebrated in the Colony except non-Christian customary





marriages duly celebrated according to the personal law and
religion of the parties.

(2) The parties to any such customary marriage may,
however, if they so desire and provided they have not living
any other undivorced spouse, contract with each other a
marriage under this Ordinance. In such cases the marriage
under this Ordinance shall not be deemed to prejudice the
previous customary marriage. [37]

40. (1) It shall be lawful for any competent minister
to celebrate a marriage, without the previous delivery to
him of the certificate of the Registrar or the Governor's
special licence, (as required by subsection (2) of section 20)
where the marriage is between two persons who have lived
together in unlawful concubinage and one of them is in
articulo mortis : Provided that no such marriage shall be
valid unless the following conditions are observed-
(a)no such marriage shall be celebrated unless both
the parties are able to signify their consent thereto
and do so in the presence of two witnesses;
(b)no such marriage shall be celebrated where either
of the parties is under twenty-one years of age,
not being a widower or widow, unless the person
whose consent is required is present and gives his
or her consent verbally;
(c)no such marriage shall be valid which would be
null and void, on the ground of kindred or affinity,
in England or Wales; and
(d)the minister celebrating any such marriage shall,
within seven days frorn the celebration thereof,
forward to the Registrar, to be filed in his office,
a certificate in the prescribed form. The certificate
shall be signed by the minister, and, where prac-
ticable, by the persons so married, and by the
witnesses to the marriage, and, if either of the
parties is unable to sign, the minister shall certify
accordingly.

(2) No marriage in articitZo mortis shall revoke any
will or codicil previously made by either of the parties to
such marriage, but such will or codicil shall have the same
validity as if such marriage had not taken place.





(3) (1) Any person who-
(a)knowingly celebrates any marriage in purported
pursuance of this section contrary to or not in
accordance with any provision thereof; or
(b)not being legally competent, celebrates any
marriage under this section,
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor triable summarily and
liable to a fine of two thousand dollars or imprisonment for
two years.
(2) Any minister who, after celebrating a marriage
under this section, fails to transmit the certificate thereof
in accordance with the provisions of paragraph (d) of sub-
section (i) shall be liable to a fine of two hundred and fifty
dollars.

41. (1) Every marriage under this Ordinance shall be
a Christian marriage or the civil equivalent of a Christian
marriage.
(2) The expression 'Christian marriage or the civil
equivalent of a Christian marriage' implies a formal cere
mony recognized by the law as involving the voluntary
union for life of one man and one woman to the exclusion
of all others. [38]

42. (1) Where a marriage is intended to be solemnized
or contracted in this Colony between a British subject
resident in this Colony and a British subject resident in the
United Kingdom, a certificate for marriage issued by a
superintendent registrar in England and a certificate for
marriage issued by a registrar, and a certificate of pro-
clamation of banns, in Scotland, and a certificate for
marriage issued by a registrar in Northern Ireland, shall
in this Colony have the same effect as a certificate of receipt
of notice of marriage issued by the Registrar in the Colony.
(2) Where a marriage is intended to be solemnized or
contracted in the United Kingdom between a British subject
resident in the United Kingdom and a British subject
resident in this Colony, a certificate of receipt of notice of
marriage may be issued in this Colony in the like nianner
as if the marriage were to be solemnized or contracted in
circumstances requiring a certificate of receipt of notice of
marriage aiid as if both such British subjects were resident
in this Colony.





FIRST SCHEDULE. [s. 36.]
FORM 1. [s. 6.]
Notice of Marriage.
To the Registrar of Marriages of Hong Kong.
I hereby give you notice that a marriage is intended to be had,
within three months from the date hereof, between me and the
other party herein named.



Witness my hand this day of 19
(Signed) Party giving the notice.

FoRm 2. [s. 9.]

Certificate of Registrar of Marriages.
I, Registrar of Marriages of Hong Kong, do
hereby certify that on the day of' 19 9
notice was duly entered in the Marriage Notice Book of the said
Colony of the marriage intended to be had between the parties
herein named and described.



The issue of this certifi-
Date of notice entered 19 cate has not been for-
bidden by any person
Date of certificate given 19 authorized to forbid
the issue thereof.
Witness my hand this day of ' 19

(Signed) Registrar of Marriages.

This certificate will be void unless the marriage is solemnized
on or before the day of ' 19
This certificate was issued by virtue of the Governor's licence
dated the day of ' 19





FORm 3. [s. 10.]

Licence to Registrar of Marriages to issue certificate.

HONG KONG.

The Marriage Ordinance, section 10.

Whereas on the day of 19 notice was
given to the Registrar of Marriages of a marriage intended to be
had between A.B. and C.D. therein mentioned, and the said A.B.
desires to obtain a licence for the immediate issue of a certificate
of such notice, and lias made before the said Registrar of Marriages
the affidavit required by the Marriage Ordinance, (Chapter 181 of
the Revised Edition) section 13:Now, therefore, in pursuance of
the said Ordinance, I do hereby authorize the said Registrar of
Marriages to issue the said certificate, at any time on or after the
day of ' 19 and within 3 calendar
months of the said day of 19 t
Given under my hand this day of ' 19

(Signed) Governor.

The date of the notice.

FoRm 4. [s. 12.1]
Special Licence.

HONG KONG.

The Marriage Ordinance, section 12.

Whereas A.B. and C.D. desire to marry, and sufficient cause has
been shown to me why such marriage should be allowed without
the formalities prescribed by the Marriage Ordinance (Chapter 181
of the Revised Edition): Now, therefore, in pursuance of the said
Ordinance, I do dispense with the giving of notice and the issue
of the certificate thereby prescribed [or as the case may be] and do
hereby authorize any competent person to celebrate marriage between
the said A.B. and C.D. at [place of celebration] on the day
of ' 19 between the hours of o'clock
in the forenoon and o'clock in the afternoon.

Given under my hand this day of 19

(Signed) Governor.




FORM 5. [21.]

Certificate of Marriage.

Hong Kong Mariage Ordinance (Chapter
181 of the Revised Edition) Section 21 Hong Kong marriage Ordinance (Chapter
181 of the Revised Edition Section 21

19. Marriage solemnized in the at In Hong Kong. 19. Marriage solemnized in the at in Hong Kong.




FORM 6. [s. 22.]

Declaration.

I, A.B., of do hereby declare that I fully
understand that by publicly taking C.D. as my wife [or husband,
as the case may be] in the presence of the Registrar of Marriages,
I shall become legally married and bound to the said C.D., although
no other rite of a civil or religious nature shall take place, and I
also understand that the effect of my publicly taking the said C.D.,
as my wife [or husband, as the case may be] as aforesaid is to
create between us a marriage which cannot be dissolved during our
joint lives except by a valid judgment of divorce, and that if either
of us, before the death of the other, shall contract another marriage
while this one remains undissolved, he or she will be guilty of
bigamy and will be liable to the punishment for that offence.

Dated the day of ' 19

(Signed) A.B.

Witness (Signed) W.X., Registrar of Marriages.

Interpreted to the said A.B. in thelanguage, in the
presence of

WX, Registrar of Marriages.

(Signed) YZ.' Interpreter.





FORM 7. [s. 40.]
FORM OF CERTIFICATE.
(Marriage in Articulo Mortis.)
Marriage Ordinance, (Chapter 181 of the Revised Edition) Marriage Ordinance, (Chapter 181 of the Revised
Section 40. Edition) Section 40.
19 Marriage solemnized at in Hong Kong 19 . Marriage solemnized at in Hong Kong.






SECOND SCHEDULE.

TABLE OF FEES [s. 37]

1.................Notice of marriage Nil
2..............Certificate of notice 1 dollar
3..............................Search 1
4.....................Certified copy 1
5.Certificate of absence of any record for a period
not exceeding 10 years .....5 dollars
6.The same for period exceeding 10 years 10
7.Licence to Registrar of Marriages to issue his
certificate .......................30
8....................Special licence 150
9.Marriage at the office of the Registrar of
Marriages........................... 1 10
Originally 14 of 1875. Fraser 7 of 1875. 3 of 1893. 5 of 1916. 15 of 1947. 22 of 1950. Short title. Interpretation. Registrar of Marriages and deputy registrars. Licensing of places of worship. Notification of licence. Giving of notice of intended marriage. First Schedule. Form 1. Filling and exhibition of notice and entry in marriage notice book. Supply of forms. Issue of certificate. First Schedule. Form 2. Grant of licence. First Schedule. Form 3. Notice void unless marriage within 3 months. Grant of special licence in case of emergency. First Schedule. Form 4. Affidavit before issue of certificate or grant of licence. No licence or certificate if either party under 16. Production of written consent. Consent by Registrar for parent or guardian. Right to forbid issue of certificate. Registrar may inquire into right to forbid. Appeal against decision of Registrar. Celebration of marriage in licensed place of worship. Certificates of marriage. First Schedule. Form 5. Marriage before Registrar. First Schedule. Form 6. [s. 22 cont.] Marriage by special licence at other place. Registration of certificates of marriage. Effect of certificate of marriage or certified copy thereof. Correction of error in certificate of marriage. Searches may be made, and certified copies granted. Invalid marriages. Validity of marriages. Marrying, etc., minor without consent of proper person. 22 of 1950, s. 3. Offences by minister. [s. 31 cont.] 22 of 1950, schedule. 22 of 1950, s. 3. Penalty for failing to transmit certificate. 22 of 1950, schedule. Penalty for removing, etc., notice. 22 of 1950, schedule. Penalty on unauthorized person celebrating marriage. 22 of 1950, s. 3. Fines. Use of forms. First Schedule. Fees. Second Schedule. 15 of 1947, s. 2. Reduction or remission of fees. Applications of Ordinance. Cases in which marriage in articulo mortis may be celebrated, and conditions of its celebration. 3 of 1893, ss. 2, 3 and 4. First Schedule. Form 7. [s. 40 cont.] Offences. 22 of 1950, schedule. 22 of 1950, s. 3. 22 of 1950, schedule. Marriages under this Ordinance are Christian or equivalent thereto. Recognition of certificates issued in the United Kingdom. 5 of 1916, ss. 2 and 3. Giving of notice in this Colony in respect of marriage to be solemnized in the united Kingdom. [First Sch. Cont.] [First Sch. Cont.] (15 of 1947, s. 3.)

Originally 14 of 1875. Fraser 7 of 1875. 3 of 1893. 5 of 1916. 15 of 1947. 22 of 1950. Short title. Interpretation. Registrar of Marriages and deputy registrars. Licensing of places of worship. Notification of licence. Giving of notice of intended marriage. First Schedule. Form 1. Filling and exhibition of notice and entry in marriage notice book. Supply of forms. Issue of certificate. First Schedule. Form 2. Grant of licence. First Schedule. Form 3. Notice void unless marriage within 3 months. Grant of special licence in case of emergency. First Schedule. Form 4. Affidavit before issue of certificate or grant of licence. No licence or certificate if either party under 16. Production of written consent. Consent by Registrar for parent or guardian. Right to forbid issue of certificate. Registrar may inquire into right to forbid. Appeal against decision of Registrar. Celebration of marriage in licensed place of worship. Certificates of marriage. First Schedule. Form 5. Marriage before Registrar. First Schedule. Form 6. [s. 22 cont.] Marriage by special licence at other place. Registration of certificates of marriage. Effect of certificate of marriage or certified copy thereof. Correction of error in certificate of marriage. Searches may be made, and certified copies granted. Invalid marriages. Validity of marriages. Marrying, etc., minor without consent of proper person. 22 of 1950, s. 3. Offences by minister. [s. 31 cont.] 22 of 1950, schedule. 22 of 1950, s. 3. Penalty for failing to transmit certificate. 22 of 1950, schedule. Penalty for removing, etc., notice. 22 of 1950, schedule. Penalty on unauthorized person celebrating marriage. 22 of 1950, s. 3. Fines. Use of forms. First Schedule. Fees. Second Schedule. 15 of 1947, s. 2. Reduction or remission of fees. Applications of Ordinance. Cases in which marriage in articulo mortis may be celebrated, and conditions of its celebration. 3 of 1893, ss. 2, 3 and 4. First Schedule. Form 7. [s. 40 cont.] Offences. 22 of 1950, schedule. 22 of 1950, s. 3. 22 of 1950, schedule. Marriages under this Ordinance are Christian or equivalent thereto. Recognition of certificates issued in the United Kingdom. 5 of 1916, ss. 2 and 3. Giving of notice in this Colony in respect of marriage to be solemnized in the united Kingdom. [First Sch. Cont.] [First Sch. Cont.] (15 of 1947, s. 3.)

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