s.19Notice of intended marriage under Foreign Marriage Act of the UK
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Section 19Part 0 —

Notice of intended marriage under Foreign Marriage Act of the UK

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When a marriage is intended to be solemnised in any foreign country or place under the Foreign Marriage Act, 1892 of the United Kingdom, and one of the parties has had his or her usual place of abode in the Islands for a period of not less than seven days (or such other period as may hereafter be fixed by any Order in Council made in exercise of the powers conferred by the said Act) immediately preceding the notice hereinafter mentioned, such person shall give notice, in the prescribed form, of the intended marriage —
to a Civil Registrar of Marriages in the district in which he or she has had his or her usual place of abode as aforesaid; or
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 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 has held his or her usual place of abode as aforesaid.
A notice given to a Civil Registrar of Marriages shall be deemed to be and shall be dealt with as a notice under section 17.
A notice given to a minister (being a Marriage Officer) under this section, shall be deemed to be and shall be dealt with as a notice under section 18.
Every Civil Registrar of Marriages and every minister (being a Marriage Officer) shall, on the notice having been published as provided, in the case of notices under sections 17 and 18, and unless he is aware of any impediment or objection which should obstruct the solemnisation of the marriage, grant to the person who gave the notice under this section, or to any person authorised by the person who gave the notice, a certificate in the prescribed form, of the due giving and publication of the notice.
The Governor in Cabinet shall prescribe such forms as he may think fit for carrying out this section, and until such forms are prescribed, the forms set out in the Schedules shall be used, with such variations as may be necessary.

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