Marriage Law Amendment Act 1879 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

ANNO QUADRAGESIMO TERTIO

VICTORIA, RIA,GINAL

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No. XXVIII.

AN ACT further to regulate the Celebration of Marriage in the Colony of Western Aus- tralia.

[Assented to, 22nd October, 1879.]

HEREAS it is expedient further to amend the law relating

to the Celebration of Marriage in the Colony of Western Australia: Be it enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Western Australia and its Dependencies, by and with the advice and consent 'of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:—

19th Vic., No. 11.

, 1 NO maniage shall be celebrated, except under special license

Notice of intended mar-

for that purpose to be issued by the Governor, or except after due

riage to be given to district

publication of banns, or intimation in writing of an intention to have

registrar.

such marriage shall be affixed for three consecutive Sundays on the

"A."

door of the place of worship in which it shall be intended to cele-

4brate such marriage, until one of the parties shall give notice

under his or her hand in the form given in the Schedule A to

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this Act, or to the like effect, to the district registrar of the district within which the parties, or one of them, shall have dwelt for not less than seven days then next preceding ; and shall state in such notice the name and surname, and the profession or condition of each of the parties intending marriage, the dwelling place of each of them, and the time during which each has dwelt therein. But if either party shall have dwelt in the place stated in such notice during more than seven days, it may be stated therein that he or she has dwelt there seven days and upwards.

2 THE district registrar shall forthwith post a true copy of

District Registrar to post ffi

Notice Book. enter same in Manage a true copy thereof fairly into a book to be for that purpose provided notices in his office, and such notice in a conspicuous place in his office, and shall also enter

by the registrar general, to be called "The Marriage Notice Book;" and such book shall be open at all reasonable times without fee to all persons desirous of inspecting the same ; and for every such entry the district registrar shall be entitled to a fee of one shilling.

3 EVERY district registrar shall, on the first day of every

Marriage notices to be sent ffi

to the registrar general. month, transmit to the registrar general all such notices received by him during the month preceding, and such notices shall be there- after kept in the general registry, in such order and manner as the registrar general shall think fit, so that the same may be most readily seen and examined.

4 AFTER the expiration of seven days from the entry of such

After seven days certificate notice, the district registrar, upon being requested so to do by or

of notice to be given on

demand,	on behalf of either party mentioned therein, shall issue under his
"B."	hand a certificate in the form of schedule B to this Act annexed ;
Proviso.	Provided that no lawful impediment be shown to the satisfaction of the district registrar why such certificate should not issue; and provided that the issue of such certificate shall not have been sooner
Further proviso.	forbidden, in manner hereinafter mentioned, by any person authorized in that behalf as hereinafter provided; and every such certificate shall state the particulars set forth in the notice, the day

culars. Certificate to contain parti- on which the notice was received, posted, and entered, and that the

full period of seven days has elapsed since the posting and entry of such notice ; and for every such certificate the district registrar shall be entitled to a fee of one shilling.

Issue of district registrar's 5 ANY person whose consent to a marriage is required by law, certfficatemaybeforbidden. may forbid the issue of the district registrar's certificate, by writing

or causing to be written at any time before the issue of such certificate, the word " forbidden " opposite to the entry of the notice

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of such intended marriage in the marriage notice book, and by subscribing or causing to be subscribed thereto his or her name, place of abode, and character as parent or guardian.

6 NO marriage in pursuance of such notice shall be celebrated , No ma age to be eele

three calendar months after the entry of such notice, nor until brated teeertificate pro:

the certificate mentioned in the fourth section hereof shall have awed and declaration made,.nor after three months from

jeen produced to the minister or district registrar celebrating the entry.

marriage, nor in any case until a declaration upon oath, or a solemn

affirmation shall have been made in manner prescribed by the

Ordinance 19th Victoria, No. 11, section 4.

7 THIS Act shall be taken to be part of the Ordinance 19th

Victoria, No. 11, as fully and effectually as if incorporated therewith, rt;hris. an Acete gh tee.

is

and may be cited for all purposes as " The Marriage Law Amend- , to be re	11	together.siid
went Act, 1879."

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

this Act.

H. ST. GEORGE ORD, Governor.