Section 18Part 0 —
Preliminaries to marriage on a Marriage Officer’s certificate.
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In every case of persons residing in the Islands intending that a marriage shall be solemnised between them under the authority of a Marriage Officer’s certificate or certificates of banns, each of such persons shall, on or about the same date, give notice in writing, in the form as nearly as may be set forth in Schedule D, to the minister (being a Marriage Officer) of the congregation to which he or she belongs or is considered to be attached, or, if not belonging or not considered to be attached to any congregation, then to any minister (being a Marriage Officer) having the ministerial charge of a place of worship in the district in which he or she resides:
Provided that when both of such persons belong to the same congregation a single notice shall suffice:
And provided also that where one of the persons intending marriage is not residing in the Islands a single notice by the other person shall suffice.
On the receipt of a notice of an intended marriage the minister (being a Marriage Officer), being satisfied that the notice is conformable to the requirements of this Law, shall (subject to his right of refusal under section 8), by himself or some other person by him duly authorised, publish the banns of marriage between the parties named therein, conformably to the notice in the place of public worship in which he ministers.
The publication shall be made in an audible manner some time during public divine service on a Sunday, or in the case of persons professing the Jewish religion, Seventh-Day Adventists and others of like religious persuasion, on a Saturday, in the face of the congregation, and shall be in the words as nearly as may be in Schedule E, and shall be made during the morning service if there is service in the morning, or if there is no morning service then during the evening service:
Provided that, in addition to such publication of banns during divine service, the minister (being a Marriage Officer) shall enter the particulars set forth in the said notice on paper, as nearly as may be in the form set forth in Schedule K, and shall affix the same on the outside of the principal door of the place of public worship at which the banns of the marriage are required to be published, in the manner already provided, and thereafter, when such notice shall have been kept affixed as aforesaid for a period of seven clear days, the required publication of the said banns shall be deemed to be complete.
The minister (being a Marriage Officer) having complied with the requirements of this Law shall, after the publication is complete, in the event of no objection to the marriage being in force, as hereinafter mentioned, grant upon request to the person who gave the notice, or to any person authorised by the person who gave the notice, a certificate of the due publication of banns, in this Law referred to as the Marriage Officer’s certificate, as nearly as may be in one of the forms set forth in Schedule F, and shall therein set forth whether any objection has been offered to such intended marriage.
Defined Terms
Marriage Officer’s certificate
Cross References
- Section 8 of Marriage Law
Right of refusal by Marriage Officer