Quaker Marriages Act 1862 (SA)

ANNO VICESIMO QUINTO ET VICESIMO SEXTO

A.D. 1862.

No. 4.

Alz Act to amend the Acts relati~g to Marriages in the Province of

Bouth Australia, by extending certain provisior~s thpreof to persons professing with the Socie$ of Friends, called Quakers.

[Assented to, 21st October, 1862.1

HEXEAS by an Act passed in the fifth year of the hamblC,

regulating Marriages in the Province of South Australia ;" and by W reign of Her present Majesty, intituled An Act for

. another Act passed in the sixteenth year of the reign of Iser said Majesty, intituled An Act to amend the Law of Marriage in the

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Province of South Australia," it was enacted that the Society of Friends, commonly called Qualws, might continue to contract and solemnizc marriage according to the usages of the said Society, and every such marriage was thereby declared and confirmed good in law, provided that the parties to the said marriage were both of the said Society, provided also that notice to the Deputy-Registrar should have been given, and the Deputy-Registrar's certificate should have issued in manner therein provided: And whereas it is expedient to extend and amend the said recited provisions, in manner hereinafter mentioned-Be it therefore Enacted, by the Governor-in-Chief of the Province of South Australia, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and House of Assembly of the said Province, in

this present Parliament assembled, as follows:

1. Marriages may be contracted and solemnized according to the Marriage8 acwrdiny; to the usages of the

usages of the said Society of Friends in the Province of South Aus- of

traha, not only in cases provided for by the said recited provisions, authorized incertain

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but also in cases where one only or where neither of the parties to

the marriage shall be a member of the said Society: Provided always, that no person who is not a member of the said Society shall be married according to thc usages thereof, unless he or she shall be authorized thereto under or in pursuance of some general rule or rules of the said Society in England or in the said Province; and a copy of such general. rule or rules, purporting to be signed by the Recording Clerk for the time being of thc said Society in London or in Adelaide, shall be filed in the office of the Registrar-General of Births, Dcaths, and Marriages, in the said Province, and a certified copy thereof shall bc admitted as evidence of such general rule or rules in proceedings touching the validity of any such marriage.

Enactment8 now in 2. All the enactments now in force, whether contained in the said

force extended.	recited Acts or in any othcr A.ct or Acts of Parliament, and relating
to marriages contracted and soiemniecd according to the usages of the
said Society in the said Prevince, and to the registration thereof, so far as the same are not imonsistent with this Act, shall extend and be applicablc to every marriage contracted and solemnized by the authority of this Act in the said Province, as fully and effectually
as if the same enactments were repeated herein.

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

this Act.

D. DALY, Governor.

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