An Act further to amend the "Trade Licences Act." [21st February, 1913.] IS MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the enacts as follows: R.S.B.C. 1911, c. 143; 1912, c. 21 1. This Act may be cited as the "Trade Licences Act Amendment Short title. Act, 1913." 2. Item 9 of Schedule A to the "Trade Licences Act," being Amends Schedule. chapter 143 of the "Revised Statutes of British Columbia, 1911," is hereby amended by striking out all the words after the word "livery-stable" in the first and second lines thereof. 3. Chapter 21 of the Statutes of 1912 is hereby repealed. Repeals 1912, c. 21. VICTORIA, B.C.: Printed by WILLIAM H. CULLIN, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty. 1913. HIS IS MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of British Columbia, enacts as follows: 1. This Act may be cited as the "Marriage Act Amendment Act, Short title. 1913." 2. Section 5 of the "Marriage Act," being chapter 151 of the Re-enacts s. 5. "Revised Statutes of British Columbia, 1911," is hereby repealed, and the following is substituted therefor: "5. Every minister and clergyman of every church and religious Who may celebrate sect and denomination in the Province, and every Registrar marriage. appointed by the Lieutenant-Governor in Council under this Act, may celebrate a marriage between any two persons neither of whom shall be under a legal disqualification to contract such marriage: Provided always that such minister or clergyman shall have resided within the Province for at least one month before he shall have authority to celebrate any marriage, unless he is a minister or clergyman of any church or denomination in the Province who is in charge of a church, or stationed by his denomination in any particular place within the Province. solemnized deemed "5A. All marriages heretofore solemnized by any minister or Marriages heretofore clergyman shall be deemed to be valid marriages, notwithstanding valid. that such minister or clergyman, prior to the solemnization of such marriage, had not resided within the Province for one month." 3. Section 6 of said chapter 151 is hereby amended by adding at Amends s. 6. the end thereof the following: publication of "(2.) Where the banns of marriage have not been published by Certificate of the clergyman who is to solemnize the marriage, such clergyman banns. Amends s. 8. Re-enacts s. 11. Religious ceremony after civil marriage. Amends s. 17. Marriage register. shall require the parties to produce to him a certificate of publication of the banns from the clergyman by whom such banns were published; such certificate shall then be attached to the register by the clergyman solemnizing the marriage." 4. Section 8 of said chapter 151 is hereby amended by striking out the words "immediately preceding" in the sixth line thereof, and substituting therefor the word "before." 5. Section 11 of said chapter 151 is hereby repealed, and the following is substituted therefor: "11. Should any party married by civil contract by a Registrar desire a religious ceremony in addition thereto, the Registrar's certificate in the form of Schedule D to this Act of the marriage of the parties shall be sufficient evidence to any qualified clergyman that he is authorized to solemnize marriage between such parties." 6. Section 17 of said chapter 151 is hereby repealed, and the following is substituted therefor: "17. (1.) All ministers, clergymen, and Registrars shall, at the time of each marriage, enter a memorandum of such marriage in a book to be kept by them respectively for that purpose, which book shall be supplied free of charge by the Registrar of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, and shall remain the property of his office; it shall be inspected by him and compared with returns received at least once in each year or as often as deemed necessary, and shall be returned to him on demand or on the holder ceasing to be entitled to use it; and every such registration shall be signed by each of the parties, the minister, or Registrar, or other duly authorized person officiating at the time, and witnessed by at least two credible witnesses, and shall be kept in the form in Schedule D hereto; all such registrations shall be open to the inspection of the public, and a certified copy of any such registration shall be given to any person demanding the same, on payment of one dollar. "(2.) A minister or clergyman of any church or denomination in the Province who is not in charge of a church or is not stationed by his denomination in any particular place shall, when he solemnizes a marriage, have an entry of the same made in the register of some church for future reference, in addition to making the ordinary return of marriage to the Registrar of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, and he shall state on the return to the Registrar in which church register the same is recorded. "(3.) Any person having the custody of any register or certified copy thereof, or of any part thereof, who shall negligently lose or injure the same, or negligently while it is in his custody allow the same to be injured, shall be liable, on summary conviction, to a |