91 Foreign Marriage

• Author: Ralph Hone
• Pages: #3

CHAPTER 91.

FOREIGN MARRIAGE.

AN ACT TO GIVE EFFECT IN THE COLONY TO THE FOREIGN MARRIAGES ORDER IN COUNCIL 1913.

[1st August 1916.] 1. This Act may be cited as The Foreign Marriage Act.

2. A notice of a marriage intended to be solemnized under an Act of the Imperial Parliament entitled The Foreign Marriage Act 1892 shall be given by one of the parties intending such marriage who has had his or her usual place of abode for a period of not less than one week immediately preceding it in some place in the Colony to the Registrar General, in the form given in the Schedule to this Act.

3. -(1) Every such notice when received by the Registrar General shall on payment of a fee of five shillings be published by him as an official notice in three issues of the Gazette.

   (2) Before publishing such notice the Registrar General may require to be satisfied that the person giving the same has complied with the provisions as to residence...