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Effect of
Registrar
General's
cerlificate.

Spec
ptoevision
relating to
marriage
Tegisters.

Ch. 29. No. 6.] Registers of Births, Deaths and Marriages.

7. (1) With effect from the date of any certificate of the
Registrar General endorsed in a new register in accordance
with the preceding section, such new register shall have the
same force and effect for all purposes, including the purposes
of this Ordinance, as if it were the register, or part of a
register, of which it is a copy, and such register or part of a
register, as the case may be, shall cease to have any force
or effect.

(2) With effect from the date of any certificate of the
Registrar General endorsed in an existing register in accord-
ance with the preceding section, the entries to which it
relates shall have the same force and effect for all purposes,
including the purposes of this Ordinance, as if they were the
entries for which they have been substituted and the latter
entries shall cease to have any force or effect.

(3) When a certificate of the Registrar General has
been endorsed in accordance with the preceding section it
shall be presumed unless the contrary is proved that all
the provisions of this Ordinance have been complied with
in respect of the new register or the entries to which it
relates. °

8. (1) Ifit shall appear to the Registrar General that any
marriage has been duly registered in the register of the
officer or person by whom the marriage was solemnized
(which officer or person is in this section referred to as “ the
Marriage Officer’’) but has not been registered in the
corresponding register in the custody of the Registrar
General, it shall be lawful for the Registrar General, with

_the approval of the Governor in Council, to cause a copy

to be prepared of the entry relating to such marriage in the
register of the Marriage Officer and to insert such copy in the
appropriate register in the custody of the Registrar General.

(2) Every such copy shall, before being so inserted, be
checked by such person and in such manner as the Registrar
General shall direct.

(3) The Registrar General shall endorse on every such
copy a certificate substantially in form C in the Schedule
hereto and shall sign such certificate and shall date such
certificate as of the date on which it is inserted in the
register.