Marriage.

[Ch. 29. No. 2.

 

 

District Registrar with open doors and in the presence of
such District Registrar and two or more credible witnesses,
and between the hours of ten o'clock in the forenoon and
four o’clock in the afternoon of the same day:

Provided that cach of the parties shall, in some part of
the ceremony, and in’ the presence of such District
Registrar and witnesse. make the following declaration :—
““T do solemnly declare that T know not of any lawful
impediment why I, Al. B., should not be joined in matrimony
to © D. here present’? and cach of the parties shall say
to the other, “PE call upon these persons here present to
witness that I, A. B., do take thee C. D., to be my lawful
wedded wife (or husband)."" Such District Registrar shall
be entitled for every marriage so contracted in his presence
to receive from the partic. a sum of $2.40.

29. Whenever a marriage shall not take place within six
months alter the entry of notice thereof or after the granting
of a licence from the Governor under section 18 of this
Ordinance, the notice or licence, as the case may be, and all
other proceedings shall thereupon be utterly void, and no
Marriage Officer shall proceed to solemnize the marriage,
nor shall the marriage be contracted before a District
Registrar, until new notice has been given and entry made
and certificate issued or a new licence has been granted in
the manner aforesaid.

30. Where any party to a marriage shall commonly use
any other language than English, then the forms and
declarations hereby required to be used in the ceremony
shall be made in such other language, so always that the
words used shall express the true intent and meaning of such
forms and declarations.

31. After any marriage shall have been solemnized or
contracted in the manner in this Ordinance provided, it shall
not be necessary in support of such marriage to give any
proof of the actual dwelling or of the period of dwelling
of either of the partics in the district mentioned in a notice
of marriage previous to the giving of such notice, nor of the
consent of any person whose consent thereunto is required
by law, nor shall any evidence be given to prove the
contrary.

37

Notices and
licences void
unless
marriage
takes place
within six
months.

Use of other
than English
language.

Proof of
certain
matters not
required
after
marriage.
Ord.24-1943,
s. 2.