Marriage. [Ch. 29. No. 2.

and the grounds upon which he claims to forbid the
matnage ;

(b) if the marriage is intended to be solemnized
under the authority of a Marriage Officer’s certificate,
such person shall give notice in writing to the person
publishing the banns that he forbids the marriage, and
shall append to such notice his name and place of
abode, and the grounds upon which he claiuns to forbid
the marriage. The person publishing the banns, if he
be not the Marriage Officer, shall forthwith forward
such notice to the Marriage Officer and the Marriage
Officer shall record in the Marriage Banns Book the
fact and date of the receipt of the notice forbidding
the marriage.

No District Registrar or Marriage Officer shall issue his
‘certificate until such caveat has been removed in the manner
hereinafter provided.

25. (1) Whenever caveaé is entered against the issue of a
District Registrar’s or Marriage Officer’s certificate, the
District Registrar or Marriage Officer, as the case may he,
shall forthwith refer the matter to the Chief Justice.

(2) If the Chief Justice is of opinion that no legal
ground has been disclosed in the caveat for forbidding the
issuc of the certificate, he may remove the caveat in the
manner hereinafter provided without requiring any of
the parties to appear.

(3) In other cases, the Chief Justice shall summon
the parties to the intended marriage and the person by whom
the caveat has been entered, and shall require such last
named person to show cause why the District Registrar or
Marriage Officer, as the case may be, should not in due
course issue his certificate.

(4) Every such matter shall be heard and determined
in a summary manner, and the Chief Justice may award
compensation and costs to the party against whom the
caveat was entered, if it appear that such caveat was entered
on insufficient grounds.

26. (1) Ifthe Chief Justice shall decide that the certificate
Ought to issue, he shall remove the caveat by a declaration

3 (2)

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When

caveat
entered,
matter to be
referred to
Chief Justice.

Removal of
caveat.