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Appoint-
ment of
Registrar
and of
District
Registrars.

Hindu
Marriage
Officers.
Ord.23~1947.

Form A,

Marriage
Officers may
act in any
part of the
Colony.

Applications
for licences
as Marriage
Officers.

Ch. 29. No. 5.] Hindu Marriage.

4. The Governor may appoint a Registrar of Hindu
marriages for the Colony and a District Registrar of Hindu
marriages for each district.

The Registrar and District Registrars shall hold office
during the Governor’s pleasure.

5. (1) It shall be lawful for the Governor, or any person
duly authorised by him, to grant licences to such persons,
being priests of the Hindu religion, as the Governor or
such authorised person may, in his discretion, think fit,
to be Marriage Officers, and, without assigning any reason
for so doing, to cancel any such licence.

(2) A licence under this section shall be in form A
of Part III of the Schedule hereto.

(3) The grant or cancellation of any such licence shall
be notified in the Royal.Gazette and shall take effect from
the date of such publication.

(4) Whenever a licence has been cancelled, the holder
thereof shall return it to the Colonial Secretary forthwith
after notice of such cancellation has been forwarded to him
by letter signed by or on behalf of the Colonial Secretary and
addressed at his usual or last known place of abode or
business. If he fails to do so, he shall be liable on summary
conviction to a fine of fifty dollars.

6. It shall be lawful for any Marriage Officer to act as
such in any district.

7. (1) Any Hindu priest who desires to be licensed as a
Marriage Officer shall make application in writing to the
Colonial Secretary. Such application shall state the
dwelling place of the applicant and the name of the Hindu
sect to which he belongs, and shall be accompanied by a
certificate to the effect that the applicant is a fit and
proper person to be licensed as a Marriage Officer from the
President and Secretary of one of the following organisa-
tions: The Hindu Sanatam Dharam Association of
Trinidad, the Sanatan Dharma Board of Control, the
Kabir Panthi Association of Trinidad, the Arya Pratinidhi
Sabha of Trinidad and any other Hindu organisation