Marriage. [Ch. 29. No. 2.

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40. Any minister of religion who shall knowingly and
wilfully solemnize any marriage without being licensed as a
Marriage Officer under the provisions of this Ordinance, and
any Marriage Officer or District Registrar who shall solemnize
any marriage or allow any marriage to be contracted in his
presence before the issue of a certificate or granting of a
licence from the Governor, or after the expiration of six
months from the entry of notice or granting of such licence,
or who shall knowingly and wilfully issue any certificate of
marriage except within the period allowed by this Ordinance
for issuing the same, or any certificate against the issue of
which a caveat has been entered until-such caveat has been
duly removed in the manner hereinbefore provided, shall be
guilty of felony, and, on conviction on indictment, shall be
liable to imprisonment for three years.

Marriages in extremis.

41. (1) Notwithstanding anything in this Ordinance con-
tained, it shall be lawful for any Marriage Officer to perform
the ceremony of marriage between any persons, without
notice given of the intended marriage of such persons, or
without a certificate duly issued, or before the issue of such
certificate, or after the expiration of six months from the
entry of notice of such marriage, provided that both the
parties between whom such ceremony of marriage shall be
performed shall, at the time of the performance thereof,
be legally competent to contract marriage and be of full
age, and provided also that one at least of them, to the best
of the knowledge and belief of such Marriage Officer and of
the other persons signing the certificate hereinafter required,
shall be, at the time of the performance of such ceremony,
in a dying state, and that such dying person shall be a
member of the religious communion or denomination to
which such Marriage Officer shall belong.

(2) Immediately after the solemnization of any such
marriage, the officiating Marriage Officer shall transmit to the
Registrar of Marriages a certificate of the said marriage in
the form given in Schedule J hereto, signed by such Marriage
Officer and by two credible witnesses present at the said
marriage. Such statement shall be filed by the Registrar
in a register to be specially kept for the purpose.

Offences by
Marriage
Officers and
District
Registrars,

Marriages
in extremis.

Schedule J.