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Schedule 1

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Form 1

NOTICE OF MARRIAGE WITHOUT LICENCE

Regulation 3(a) Marriage Act 1949, s.27(1)

Form 2

NOTICE OF MARRIAGE WITH LICENCE

Regulation 3(b) Marriage Act 1949, s.27(2)

Form 9

CERTIFICATE FOR MARRIAGE

Regulation 7(1) Marriage Act 1949, s.31(2)

Form 10

CERTIFICATE AND LICENCE FOR MARRIAGE

Regulation 7(2) Marriage Act 1949, s.32(2)

FORM 12

FORM OF INSTRUCTIONS

Regulation 8 Marriage Act 1949, ss.31(5) & 32(4)

Instructions for the solemnization of a marriage in a registered building without the presence of a registrar

1

This marriage must take place in the registered building named in the superintendent registrar’s certificate or superintendent registrar’s certificates for marriage, and nowhere else.

2

The authorised person duly appointed for the registered building named in the certificate or certificates, or an authorised person for some other registered building in the same registration district, must be present at the marriage.

3

At least two witnesses must also be present, and the doors of the registered building must be open. (The doors need not be actually open provided they are not so closed as to prevent persons from entering that part of the building in which the marriage is solemnized.)

4

Any certificate or certificates issued by a superintendent registrar as the legal authority for the marriage must be delivered to the authorised person in whose presence the marriage is to be solemnized. Unless this document (or those documents) are in his possession the authorised person must on no account allow the marriage to take place.

5

It is essential to the validity of the marriage that in some part of the ceremony [and in the presence of the witnesses and the authorised person] each of the parties makes a declaration in one of the following forms:—

(a)

by saying “I do solemnly declare that I know not of any lawful impediment why I [name] may not be joined in matrimony to [name]”; or

(b)

by saying “I declare that I know of no legal reason why I [name] may not be joined in marriage to [name]”; or

(c)

by replying “I am” to the question put to them successively “Are you [name] free lawfully to marry [name]?”;

  • and that each of them says to the other one of the following forms of words of contract:—

(a)

“I call upon these persons here present to witness that I [name] do take thee [name] to be my lawful wedded wife [or husband]”; or

(b)

“I [name] take you [or thee] [name] to be my wedded wife [or husband]”.

6

These declaratory and contracting words must be said in the presence of the authorised person acting on the occasion and of the witnesses to the marriage.

7

Immediately after the marriage is solemnized the authorised person must register all the particulars prescribed by law in the duplicate marriage register books of the registered building in which the marriage has taken place; the entry in both books must be signed by the parties married, by at least two witnesses and by the authorised person.

8

After the registration of the marriage a certified copy of the entry thereof may be obtained from the authorised person on payment of the prescribed fee.