Marriage Act 1894 Amendment Act 1898 (WA)

EVerte rn Rurtr Rita.

ANN O SEX AGESIMO SEGUNDO

VICTORIA, REGI

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No. XXIII.

AN ACT to amend the Marriage Act, 1894.

[Assented to, 2gth October, ig9g.]

Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parlia- BE it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, b y and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and

ment assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :—

1.    THIS Act may be cited as the Marriage Act, 1894, Amend-

ment Act, 1898. Short title.

2. NOTHING- in Sections five, six, twelve to twenty (both Certain provisions

inclusive), twenty-seven, and twenty-nine, or in Sub-section three of	of 58 Viet., No. 11.
Section twenty-one of the Marriage Act, 1894, contained shall apply	not to apply to mar-
or extend to, or be construed to apply or extend to, any marriage	riages between Jews.
between parties both of whom are Jews.

3.     MARRIAGES between parties both of whom are Jews shall

Celebration of mar-

only be celebrated by a Minister of the J ewish religion ordinarily	riages between Jews
officiating as such, whose name, designation, and usual place of residence have been and continue to be duly registered according to

62° VICTORIZE, No. 23.

Marriage Act—Amendment.

law, in the office of the Registrar General, as authorised to celebrate

marriages.

Amendment of 58 4. IN line three, Section thirty-four of the Marriage Act of 1894,

Viet., No.11, see. 34. the words " or both of whom are Jews " are struck out ; and, in line four thereof, the words " or Jews, as the case may be," are struck out.

Amendment of sec 5. IN Section thirty-five of the said Act the words " or Jews,

35.  as the case may be," are struck out.

In the name and on behalf of the Queen I hereby assent

to this Act.

ALEX. C. ONSLOW, Governor's Deputy.

By Authority : A. Curtails, Acting Government Printer, Perth.