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Consent to
Marriage of
minors,

Power of
Chief Justice
to authorise
marriage.

Objections
to marriage,

Ch. 29. No. 2.} Marriage.

Consent to Marriage.

22. The father, if living, of any party to an intended
marriage under twenty-one years of age (such party not
being a widower or widow), of if the father shall be dead
then the guardian or guardians of the person of the party
so under age lawfully appointed, or one of them, and in case
there shall be no such guardian then the mother of such
party if unmarried, and if there be no mother unmarried
then the guardian or guardians of the person appointed
by the Supreme Court, if any, or one of them, shall have
authority to give consent to the marriage of such party,
and such consent is hereby required for the marriage of such
party so under age, unless there shall be no person
authorised to give such consent.

23. In case any person whose consent is required by law
to any marriage, not being the father of cither of the parties
to the marriage, is absent from the Colony, or is unable or
refuses to give such consent, or being the father of one of
such parties is of unsound mind or absent from the Colony, it
shall be lawful for the persons desirous of contracting such
marriage to apply by petition to the Chief Justice, who may
proceed upon such petition in a summary way, and, in case
the marriage proposed shall upon examination appear to
him to be proper, the Chief Justice shall judicially declare
by order in writing that such marriage may be solemnized
and such order shall, for the purposes of this Ordinance,
be deemed equivalent to such consent as aforesaid.

Caveats.

24. .\ny person whose consent to a marriage is hereby
required, or who may know of any just cause why the
marriage should not take place, may, on payment of
$1.20, enter a caveat against the issue of a District
Registrar’ Marriage Officer’s certificate in the following
manner :——

(a) if the marriage is intended to be solemnized wider
the authority of a District Registrar’s certificate, such
person shall, at any time before the issue of such
certificate, write the word ‘‘ Forbidden ”’ opposite to
the entry of the notice in the Marriage Notice Book,
and shall append thereto his name and place of abode,