Filing of
certificate
and registra-
tion of
Mariage hy
Registrar
General.

Registration
to legitimate
children of
marriage so
recistered.

Ch. 29. No. 4.] Muslim Marriage and Divorce Registration.

under this Ordinance in accordance with the provisions
hereinafter contained.

(2) The parties to such prior marriage shall attend
together with a Marriage Officer before a District Registrar
and such parties shall, in the presence of and before the
District Registrar, make a declaration in the form pre-
scribed which declaration shall be certified by the Marriage
Officer in the manner prescribed.

(3) If it appears to the District Registrar that the
requisites of a valid Muslim marriage were complied with at
the date it was contracted and that such prior marriage is
still subsisting he shall transmit the declaration to the
Registrar General for registration.

14. (1) The Registrar General shall file in his office all
certificates and declarations of Muslim marriages which shall
be transmitted to him, and shall forthwith register in a book
in the prescribed form to be kept in his office for such
purpose and to be called the “ Muslim Marriage Register
Book ”’ particulars of every certificate and declaration of a
Muslim marriage which shall be filed in his office, and every
entry so made shall be dated on the day on which it is so
entered and shall be signed by the Registrar General, and
such book shall be kept in such manner as is best suited for
easy reference thereto.

(2) Upon such registration by the Registrar General,
and upon payment of the prescribed fee, he shall issue and
transmit to the parties to the marriage a certificate of
registration of the marriage in the prescribed form, and in the
case of a marriage effected after the commencement of this
Ordinance he shall send a notification of the fact and date of
registration to the Marriage Officer by or before whom the
marviage was effected, who shall thereupon enter such
particulars in the space provided for the purpose in the
counterfoil of the Muslim Marriage Certificate Book.

15. The children of any Muslim marriage registered in
accordance with the provisions of this Ordinance shall be
legitimate, and in the case of the children of a prior marriage
registered by virtue of section 13 the date of such legitima-
tion shall be the date of registration of such prior marriage: