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hercto, which entry shall be signed by such Marriage
Officer or District Registrar, as the case may be, and by the
partics to the marriage and by two credible witnesses of the
said marriage, and every such Marriage Officer and every
District Registrar (not being the Registrar of Marriages)
shall forthwith transmit to the Registrar of Marriages a
duplicate of such statement similarly signed, and all such
duplicate statements shall be filed by the Registrar of
Marriages and preserved among the records of his office

(2) Every Marriage Officer or District Registrar who,
without reasonable cause or excuse, shall fail to transmit to
the Registrar of Marriages any statement in accordance with
the provisions of this section shall be liable, on summary
conviction, for every such offence, to a fine of forty-eight
dollars.

34. It shall be lawful for all persons at all reasonable
times to search the entries in any Marriage Register Book
er any file of statements as aforesaid kept by the Registrar
or any District Registrar or any Marriage Officcr, and to have
true copies, certified under the hand of such Registrar,
Nistrict Registrar, or Marriage Officer, of any such entries
cr statements:

Provided that, before allowing any such search or fur-
nishing any such certified copy, the Registrar, District
Registrar, or Marriage Officer, as the case may be, shall be
entitled to demand the following fees, that is to say:—

For every search 48 cents.
For every certified copy as afore-
said 48 cents.

Void marriages.

35. (1) If any person shall knowingly and_ wilfully
intermarry under the provisions of this Ordinance, without
due notice given in accordance with section 12 or section 15
or without a certificate under sections 14 or 17 having been
duly issued, or without a licence issued under this Ordinance,
the marriage of such persons shall be null and void.

_ (2) If any persons to any marriage are within the
prohibited degrees of consanguinity or affinitv according

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Searches and
certified
copies.

Void

marriages.

Ord.24-1943,
8. 2.