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B.

District
Reuistrars to
send copies
of entries to
Registrar.

Ch. 29. No. 2.] Marriage.

 

Preliminaries to solemnization of marriage.
11. Marriage may be solemnized-—

(a) under the authority of a District Registrar’s
certificate or District Registrars’ certificates; or

(0) under the authority of a Marriage Officer’s
certificate or Marriage Officers’ certificates; or

(c) under the authority of a licence from the
Governor; or

(¢) under the provisions of section 41.

12. (1) In every case of marriage intended to be solem-
nized under the authority of a District Registrar's certificate
or District Registrars’ certificate. , each of the parties shall

give notice of the intended marriage, in the form given in
Schedule B hereto (making the declaration therein con-
tained), to the District Registrar of the district within
which he or she has respectively resided for not less than
seven days next preceding the date of such notice:

Provided that when cach of the parties to the intended
marriage shall have resided for the required period in the
same district, a single notice shall be sufficient.

(2) On the receipt of a notice of an intended marriage,
such District Registrar shall forthwith enter the particulars
set forth in such notice and also the date of the receipt of
such notice, in a book to be called the ‘‘ Marriage Notice
Book,” and shall suspend a copy of such notice in a con-
spicuous place in his office for a period of not less than
seven days from the time of the receipt thereof.

(3) For every entry made in the Marriage Notice
Book the District Registrar shall be entitled to a fee of
twenty-four cents, and such Marriage Notice Book shall be
open at all reasonable times, without fee, to all persons
desirous of inspecting the same.

13. (1) Every District Registrar, not being the Registrar
of Marriages, shall forthwith transmit to the Registrar of
Marriages a copy of every such entry which shall have been
made by him as in the last preceding section provided, and
such Registrar of Marriages shall, on the receipt of such