The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 12

Iv. Solemnization of Marriages

Iv. Solemnization of Marriages.

§ 28. The Registrar's certificate or certificates, as

The Registrar's certificate to be delivered to the Officiating Minister.

the case may be, shall, immediately before the solemnization of any marriage, be delivered by one of the

Ibid, Sec. 21.

persons about to be married to the Officiating Minister or to the Registering Officer of the Society of Friends commonly called Quakers, for the place where the marriage is solemnized, according to the usage of the said Society, or to the officer of a Synagogue by whom the marriage is registered, if the same shall be solemnized according to the usages of the people professing the Jewish religion; and in all other cases shall be delivered to the Registrar present at such marriage, as is hereinafter provided.
§ 29. Every such marriage shall be solemnized

Manages when to be solemnized.

in the place stated in the notice of such marriage,

Ibid, Sec. 22.

between the persons described in the notice according to such form and ceremony as they may see fit to adopt. Provided nevertheless that every such marriage shall be solemnized with open doors, between the hours of eight in the morning and four in the afternoon, in the presence of an Officiating Minister or other person duly authorized by this Act, and in the presence of two or more witnesses.

Solemnizing marriage otherwise than according to this Act a misdemeanour.

§ 31. Every person who on or after the said first day of January, 1855, shall knowingly and wilfully solemnize matrimony in any other place than the

Ibid, Sec. 38.

church, office, or place specified in the certificate required by this Act, and every person who shall knowingly and wilfully solemnize matrimony on or after the said first day of January, 1855, without a certificate from the Registrar as required by this Act, shall be deemed and adjudged to be guilty of a misdemeanour.

Persons married to pay one pound to Registrar instead of three pounds.

§ 32. The Registrar shall be entitled, for every marriage which shall be solemnized by him, to receive from the persons married the sum of one

1875, Act No. 22 Sec. 9.

pound instead of the sum of three pounds as provided by the twenty-fourth section of "The Marriage Act, 1854."

Any person solemnizing matrimony falsely pretending to be an Officiating Minister felony.

§ 33. If any person shall from and after the first day of January, 1855, falsely pretend to be an Officiating Minister, and shall solemnize matrimony, any such person knowingly and wilfully so offending,

1854, Act No. 12, Sec. 37.

and being lawfully convicted thereof, shall be deemed and adjudged to be guilty of felony, and shall be sentenced to penal servitude for a term of seven years.