of Registrars) (No. 2). A BILL ΤΟ 5 Amend the Law relating to the Attendance of Registrars at A.D. 1888. Marriages in Nonconformist Chapels. E it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: 1. This Act may be cited for all purposes as the Marriage Act, 1888. Title. Act not to extend to Scotland and 3. This Act shall come into operation on the first day of Ireland. January one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine. Commencement of Act. Marriages without presence of 4. Notwithstanding anything contained in section twenty of an 10 Act passed in the sixth and seventh years of the reign of King may be William the Fourth, chapter eighty-five, intituled "An Act for solemnized Marriages in England," marriages shall and may, from and after the date of the commencement of this Act, be lawfully solemnized registrar. in the registered building named in the notice of such marriages 15 and in the registrar's certificate or license issued pursuant to the provisions of the said Act, or any Act amending the same, between and by the parties described in the notice and certificate or license, according to such form and ceremony as they may see fit to adopt, without the presence of any registrar, as is required by the said 20 Act, but subject in all other respects, excepting as is herein provided, to all the conditions and provisoes contained in the said Act and any Acts amending the same. 5. Whenever a marriage is intended to be solemnised in a Notices to building registered for the solemnization of marriages, and the registrar preliminary 25 parties intending to contract such marriage have duly fulfilled all to marriage the conditions from time to time required by law to entitle the and forms to superintendent registrar to issue a certificate or license authorising be issued. of Registrars) (No. 2). A.D. 1888. such marriage, and the said parties shall not give notice to the registrar, at the time when the form of notice of marriage as required by law is given to the registrar pursuant to section ten of this Act, that they require the registrar to be present at the intended marriage, it shall be lawful for the superintendent registrar, 5 and he is hereby required, to annex to such certificate or license, as the case may be, the duplicate forms of return in Form D. in the schedule to this Act mentioned, which forms the registrar is required to fill up so far as he is able, and the said registrar shall give to one of the parties intending to contract the said marriage 10 the said certificate or license, together with the said return in duplicate, accompanied by a stamped and addressed registered envelope for delivery to the persons officiating at the intended marriage. And the registrar shall at the same time also give to one of the parties intending to contract the said marriage a printed form of 15 instructions for the due solemnization of the said marriage in the Form E. in the schedule to this Act. Person officiating at marriage to complete declaration and transmit same to registrar. Provision for custody of certificate or license. Duty of registrar in case he should not receive duplicate ferms. 6. In the case of the solemnization of a marriage at which the registrar shall not be required to be present, the certificate or license required by law, together with the duplicate forms of return 20 annexed to the said certificate or license, as herein-before provided, shall be delivered to the person officiating at the said marriage, who shall, immediately after the said marriage, complete the duplicate forms of return annexed to the said certificate or license, as the case may be, and each of such duplicate forms shall be signed by 25 the person officiating at the said marriage, and also by the parties contracting the marriage, and by two witnesses who were present at the solemnization of the said marriage, and the person officiating at the said marriage shall within seventy-two hours after the solemnization of the said marriage deliver or transmit to the superintendent 30 registrar, by registered letter or in some other reasonably secure manner, one of such forms of return duly filled up and signed as aforesaid. 7. The certificate or license, as the case may be, together with one of the duplicate forms of return D. annexed to the said 35 certificate or license, so filled up and signed as aforesaid, may be retained by the person officiating at the said marriage. 8. Whenever the superintendent registrar shall, within three months after the notice of any marriage, fail to receive the duplicate form of return D., notifying to him the solemnization 40 of the intended marriage, the superintendent registrar shall take of Registrars) (No. 2). such steps as he may deem necessary to ascertain whether such A.D. 1888. intended marriage has been solemnized with a view to secure the registration thereof. 9. If the person officiating at a marriage in any building Offences. 5 registered for the solemnization of marriages pursuant to the provisions of this Act, without the presence of a registrar, refuses or fails to comply with this Act, or the enactments or regulations for the time being in force with respect to the solemnization and registration of marriages, or solemnizes any marriage in such 10 registered building, without conducting the same in accordance with the law for the time being in force with respect to the solemnization of marriages, he shall be guilty of an offence under this Act, and shall be liable, on summary conviction, to a penalty not exceeding ten pounds, to be recovered in manner provided by the Summary 15 Jurisdiction Acts. 20 25 30 10. The following fees shall be payable to the registrar instead Fees. of the fees now payable, viz. : (a) Where the marriage is pursuant to the registrar's certificate (b) Where the marriage is by license a fee of five shillings, which attendance of 11. Where the contracting parties give notice to the registrar Parties may under section five that it is the wish of the parties to be married in require the presence of the registrar, nothing in this Act contained shall registrar. relieve the registrar from attendance at such marriage as now 35 by law required, and the fulfilment of the duties now imposed 40 by law, and in case of such attendance the registrar shall be entitled to the fees authorised by the said Act of the sixth and seventh years of the reign of King William the Fourth, or any Act amending the same. 12. This Act shall be read together and as part of the Marriage Incorpora and Registration Acts passed in the sixth and seventh years of the ting Acts. of Registrars) (No. 2). A.D. 1888. reign of King William the Fourth, chapter eighty-five, intituled "An Act for Marriages in England," and chapter eighty-six, intituled "An Act for registering Births, Deaths, and Marriages in England," and in the nineteenth and twentieth years of the reign of Her Majesty, chapter one hundred and nineteen, intituled "An 5 Act to amend the provisions of the Marriage and Registration Acts," and together with all Acts amending the same or incorporated therewith. |