Registration of Marriages etc Act 1839 No 24a (NSW)

1000 No. 23. S*’ VIC. 1839.

Registration o f Marriages ^c.

No. XXIII.

E egistration

OP An Act for the better ensuring the Eegistration

IMareiages &c.

of Marriages Baptisms and Burials.	[19̂ /̂
November, 1839.]

Preamble. T ^T IIE R E A S by an Act of the Governor and Legislative Council

of the Colony of New South Wales passed in the fifth year of the reign of His late Majesty King 'W îlliam the Eourth intituled

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5 Wm. lY . No. 2.

“ An Act to remove doubts as to the validity o f certain Marriages had “ and solemnized within the Colony o f New South Wales and to regu- “ late the registration o f certain Marriages Baptisms and Burials ” it was among other things provided That certificates of all marriages baptisms or burials solemnized or performed by any ordained Minister of the Presbyterian Church of Scotland or Priest or Minister of the Roman Catholic Church shall be transmitted to the Registrar of the Supreme Court and whereas by an Act passed in the present year of the

3 Victoria No. 7.

reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria intituled Act to remove doubts “ as to the validity o f certain Marriages had and solemnized within the “ Colony o f Neio South TVales by Ministers o f the Wesleyan Methodist “ Society and to regulate the registration o f certain Marriages Baptisms “ and Burials” it was among other things provided That certificates of all marriages baptisms or burials solemnized or performed by any ordained Minister of the WesleyanMethodist Society shall be transmitted to the Registrar of the Supreme Court and whereas it is expedient to fix a penalty for the neglect or omission to transmit such certifi­

Every Ministercates respectively in the manner by said Acts required Re it

Priest or ciursyman enacted That evcrv Minister Priest or Clergvman who under the

to transmit ccrtiii- . ^ k i_ ^ • j i o i t ̂ •

cates of all mar- saicL recitod Acts 01’ eiiliOL’ 01 them IS required to transrmt a cer-

bunab*’to’tb tificate of marriage baptism or burial to the Registrar of the Supreme trar of tiie Supreme Coui’t and shall ucglcct SO to do withiii one calendar month after

SonUi'lr'nder solcmnization or performance of any such ceremony or who

ing £10. penalty not exceed- being duly required to deliver any such certificate shall refuse or

‘ ' ' neglect so to do shall be liable for every such offence to foi'feit and pay a sum not exceeding ten pounds to be recovered and levied in the manner provided by an Act of the said Governor and Council passed in the fifth year of the reign of His late Majesty King William

5 Wm. IV. No. 22.	the Eourtli intituled “ An Act to regulate summary proceedings before Justices of the Beace” and the penalty or sum so received or recovered and levied shall be paid to the use of Her Majesty for the public uses of said Colony and in support of the Government thereof.
Copies of Register

Books formerly sent 2. And whereas by an Act passed in the sixth year of the reign

to E c 2;istrar of	of His late Majesty King George the Eourth intituled “ An Act for
Archdeacon’s Court
to be now sent to the	“ better regulating and pyreserving Barish and other Registers o f Births
Bishop of Australia’s	“ Baptisms Marriages and Burials in Netv South Wales and its Bepen-
Registrar.	“ dencies including Van Diemen's Land” the copies of certain Register Boohs therein mentioned are required to be transmitted to the Regis­
6 Geo. IV. No. 21.	trar of the Archdeacon’s Court and whereas the Archdeacon’s Court has beeu discontinued since the establishment of the Bishoprick of

Bishop's Registrar Australia Be it therefore enacted That the copies of the Register Books

and subjret̂ to'samô kept by Clergymen of the Church of England and required by the said

duties and liabilities I’ccitcd Act to be transmitted to the Registrar of the Archdeacon’s

E^giSnuUonnerfy Court shall in futiirc be transmitted to the Registrar of the Bishop of

was. ' Australia who shall be subject to the same duties and liabilities and entitled to the same fees as the Registrar of the Archdeacon’s Court would be subject and entitled to bmder the said recited Act.

No. XXIV.