I.—NOTICE OF INTENDED MARRIAGE.

New Zealander, Volume 3, Issue 166, 1 January 1848, Page 3

I.— NOTICE OF INTENDED MARRIAGE.

1 shall be present. Provided always, that if the parties dwell in the districts of different officer appointed under tbh Ordinance, they shall give the like notice to the Deputy Registrar of each district, as the case And filed and copied ly him. 3. The Deputy Registrar shall file all such noticei, and keep them with the records of his office, and shall aUo forthwith enter a true copy of all such notices fairly into a parchment book, to be furnished to him by the Government, and to be called " The Marriage Notice Book " Provided always, that before the copy of any iuch Notice shall be so entered in the NoticeBook, some creditable person ; known to the Deputy Registrar, shall satisfy him, if he think fit to require it, of the i ruth of the several particulars set forth in such notice. Co»v of Notice in some cases to be potted up in of~ r fice of D. R. 4. In every case i l which it is intended that a Marriage shall take place in the presence of a Deputy Registrar, as is hereafter provided, a true and exact copy of such Notice of Marriage, ander the hand of some Deputy Registrar, shall be suspended in some conspicuous place in the Registry office where such notice was given, during fourteen days before any Marriage shall be solemnized, in pursuance of such notice. Fees to D. R. for Copy. 5. There shall be paid to the Deputy Registrar for every such true and exact copy oi such Notice of Marriage, by the party who leaves such Notice at the office of such Deputy Registrar, a fee of 2s. 6d. Notice Book to be open for inspection. 6. Eveiy lU'-h " Marriage Notice 800k 1 ' shall be open at all reasonable times, to all persons desiring to inspect the same, and for every such entry or search, there shall be paid to the Deputy ltegistrar a fee of 2s. Gil. D. R. to issue Certificate. 7. After the expiration of twenty-one days, after the entry of such no ice, the Deputy Registrar upon being requested so to do, by and on behalf of the party by whom the notice was given, a Certificate in the form in Schedule B, to this Ordinance tinutxed. Provided that no lawful impediment be shewn to the satisfaction of the Deputy Registrar, why such Certificate should not issue, and provided that the issue of such Certificate shall not have been sooner forbidden, in manner hereinafter mentioned, by any person or persons authorized in that behalf, as hereinafter is provided. And every such Csnificate shall state the particulars set furth m the notice — the diy on which the notice was, entered, and that the full period ot twenty-ons days has elapsed since the entry of such notice, and that the issue of such Certificate has not been foi bidden by any person or persons authorized in that behalf. Fee for Certificate. 8. For every such Certificate the Deputy Registrar shall be entitled to hare a fes of one Shilling. Licenses may he issued as heretofore. 9. Licenses to marry without pubhcition of Banns, may be issued according to the Ecclesiastical laws of the United Church of England and Ireland, and the Roman Catholic Church, by the proper authorities, according to such laws for Marriages to be celebrated agreeably to the forms and usages of the said Churches. Provided always, that no such License for marriage shall bo issued in any case in which any person, whose consent to any marriage 6y license would have been required by law, shall not have previously given his or her consent. D.R. in certain cases may grant Licenses. 10. After the said first day of January, 1848, every Deputy Registrar shall have power to grant Licenses for Marriage under this Ordinance, as herein pi ovided, withn any district under his superintendance, in the form of Schedule C h reunto annsred. Provided al. ways, that nothing herein contained shall authorize any Deputy Registrar to grant any License for Marriage in any Church or Chapel in which marriages may bs solemnized according to the forms and u*>-ges of the said Church of England, or in any church or chapel belonging to the Church off England, or any license for a marriage which is not intended to be celebrated within his district. Oath to be made by party before License granted. 11. Before any license for marriage shall be granted by any such Deputy Registrar, one of the paities intending marriage shall appear personally before such Deputy Registrar, and shall make oath, or his or her solemn affirmation, or declaration, instead of taking oath, that he or she believeth that there is not any impediment of kindred or alliance, or other lawful hinderance to the said marriage, and that one of the said parties hath for the space of 15 days immediately before the day of the granting of such license, had his or her usual place of abode within the district, wherein such marriage is to bp solemnised. And where either of the parties not bding a widow or a widower, shall be under the age of 21 years, that the consent of the person or persons whose consent to such marriage is by law required, hath been obtained thereto, or that there is no person having authority to give such consent, as the csse may be. Notice and License to be good' for three months only. 12. Whenever a marriage shall not be had within three calendar months after the notice shall bate been • > entered by the Deputy Registrar, the notice and any icense which may have been granted thereupon, and al other proceedings thereupon shall be utterly void. Fee for such License. IS. For every suck license, the Deputy Registrar shall be entitied to have of the party requiring the same, the sum of £Z. Deputy Registrar t» make quarterly returns of Licenses granted by him. 14. Every Deputy Registrar shall, four times in every year, on such days as shall be appointed by the Governor for the time being, make a return to the Registrar of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, of every license granted by such Deputy Registrar since his last return, and of the particulars stated concerning the parties.