Marriage amendment (1849) (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

AN NO DUODECIMO

VICTORIA. REGINA,.

No. XII.

An Ordinance to amend the existing Laws respecting the Solemnization of Matri- mony.

HEREAS it is expedient to amend an Ordinance passed in Preamble.

W"an Ordinance to repeal the existing laws respecting the solemniza-the tenth year of the Reign of tier present Majesty, intituled

tion of matrimony, and to make other regulations respecting the same ;"—Be it therefore enacted, by His Excellency the Governor o,

Western

12th Viet. No. 12. 1849.

Part of the 10th Viet. No. Western Australia and its Dependencies, by and with the advice and

Registrar, am., repealed.18 requiring presence of consent of the Le gislative Council thereof, that so much of the said

Ordinance as relates to the following particulars (save as to marriages in the office of any Registrar, as hereinafter mentioned) be and the same is hereby repealed ; that is to say, so much of the said Ordinance as requires the presence of the Registrar at marriages, and so much as declares it Felony to solemnize any marriage in any other place than the church or building specified in the notice and certificate or Registrar's license mentioned in the said Ordinance, or the absence of a Registrar, or within twenty-one days after entry of notice to a Regrstrar, or after the expiration of three calendar months after the date of such entry, or after the expiration of three calendar months after the date of the Registrar's license, and so much of the said Or- dinance as empowers any Registrar to issue a certificate or license for the solemnization of any marriage elsewhere than in the office of any Registrar, and so much of the said Ordinance (save as aforesaid) as renders void the marriages of persons intermarrying in any other place than the church or building specified in the notice, certificate, or Registrar's license mentioned in the said Ordinance, or intermar- rying without either certificate or Registrar's license, or in the ab- sence of a Registrar.

what former Marriages

valid.

AND be it enacted, that the twenty-first section of the said Ordinance shall be deemed and taken to apply only to marriages heretofore bona fide solemnised or performed and followed by coha- bitation and repute of marriage.

II.

Not to extend to Jews or

Quakers.

AND be it enacted, that nothing in the said Ordinance or in this Ordinance contained shall extend to any marriages among the people called Quakers, or among persons professing the Jewish Religion, where both the parties to any such marriage shall be of the people called Quakers, or persons professing the Jewish Religion respectively.

III.

CHARLES FITZGERALD,

GOVERNOR AND COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF.

Passed the Council

9th May, 1899. 3

THOMAS N. YULE,

Acting Clerk of the Council.

Printed by authority of the Government, by E. Stirling, Perth.