338

When
Marriage
Officer not
compellable
to marry

Marriage tu
be entered
in register
and dupli-
cate sent to
Registrar.
Schedule I.

Ch. 29. No. 2.] Marriage.

32. (1) No Marriage Officer shall be compellable to accept
notice of marriage from, or to enter or publish the banns of,
or to issue a Marriage Officer’s certificate to, cr to solemnize
marriage between, persons cither of whom shall not be a
member of his own communion, nor otherwise than accord-
ing to the rules or custom of such communion, nor unless he
shall be satisfied by the declaration of the parties or other-

wise that the proposed marriage is consistent with such rules
or custom.

(2) No minister of the Christian religion shall be
compelled to publish the banns of marriage or to solcmnize
the marriage of any person whose fcrmer marriage shall
have been dissolved by a judicial decree, where the other
party to such former marriage is still living, nor shall any
such minister be compelled to permit the use of any church
or chapel under his control for publishing any such banns or
solemnizing the marriage of any such person, nor shall any
such minister be liable to any suit, proceeding or penalty
for refusing to publish any such banns or for refusing to
solemnize any such marriage or for refusing to permit the
use of any such church or chapel for any such purposes
aforesaid.

(3) No minister of the Christian religion shall be
liable to any suits, proceedings or penalties for publishing
any such banns or solcmnizing the marriage of any such
person aforesaid or for permitting the use of any such church
or chapel for any of the purpeses aforesaid :

Provided that nothing in this section shall relieve any
such minister from any ecclesiastical proceeding or censure
to which by reason of his publishing any such banns or
solemnizing any such marriage or permitting the use of any
such church or chapel for any of the purposes aforesaid
he is or from time to time hereafter may be liable according
to the doctrine, practice, usage or rules of any such religion.

Registration of marriage.

33. (1) Immediately after the solemnization or con-
tracting of any marriage, the officiating Marriage Officer
or the District Registrar, as the case may be, shall enter
in a book to be called the ‘‘ Marriage Register Book ”’ a
statement of the said marriage in the form given in Schedule |