Marriage. [Ch. 29. No. 2.

 

43. No prosecution for any felony under this Ordinance
shall be commenced after the expiration of three years
after the offence has been committed, nor without the
written consent of the Attorney General.

44, All pecuniary penalties under this Ordinance
recoverable on summary conviction, may be recovered on
complaint in the name of any person authorised in that
behalf by writing under the hand of the Attorney General,
at any time not more than twelve months after such offence
has been committed.

45. All fees received by the Registrar or District Registrars
or the Colonial Secretary under this Ordinance shall be
paid into the Treasury for the use of the Colony.

46. All certified copies of entries purporting to be sealed
or stamped with the seal of the Registrar General shall
be reecived as evidence of the marriages to which the same
relate without any further or other proof of such entry and
no certified copy purporting to be given in the office
of the Registrar of Marriages shall be of any force or effect
which is not sealed or stamped as aforesaid.

47. ‘he Registrar General shall send, once in every year,
to the Governor a general abstract of the number of
marriages registered during the twelve months ending on the
last day of December then immediately preceding, in such
form as the Governor from time to time shall require ;
and every such annual general abstract shall be laid before
the hegislative Council at its next meeting after the receipt
thercof.

48. No marriage solemnized or contracted under this
Ordinance, other than a marriage heretofore adjudged
to be void by a court of competent jurisdiction, shall be,
or be deemed to have been, invalid by reason only that a
licence issued under section 19 prior to the 12th of August
1943, was issued less than two clear days after application
therefor had been made or that a District Registrar’s
certificate was issued in compliance with such licence less

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Limitation.

Recovery of
penalties.

Fees payable
into the
Treasury.

Evidence.

Annual
abstract

Validation.

Ord.24-1943,
3. 4.