Marriage

Cap. 174 · Revised Edition 2020 · 80 sections

s. 1Short title
s. 2Interpretation
s. 3Marriages within prohibited degrees
s. 4Age of marriage
s. 5Consent to marriage of infants
s. 6Guardian unable or refusing to consent
s. 7Division of Belize into marriage districts
s. 8Appointment of ministers of religion as marriage officers
s. 9Power to refuse to act
s. 10Application for appointment as marriage officer
s. 11Tenure of office
s. 12Temporary absence of marriage officer
s. 13Cancellation of appointment
s. 14Register of marriage officers
s. 15Sending in of applications or notifications
s. 16Publication of appointments and charges
s. 17Magistrates and senior justices of the peace to be marriage officers
s. 18Limitation of powers
s. 19Registration of buildings in use at the commencement of this Act
s. 20Registration of buildings set apart for religious worship
s. 21Meaning of “separate building”
s. 22Use of building as a school
s. 23Cancellation of registration if building disused
s. 24Rebuilding or repair of registered building
s. 25Notice to be placed in registered building
s. 26Consent required for use of registered building
s. 27Authority for solemnisation
s. 28Publication of banns
s. 29Notification to be made to marriage officer before publication of banns by parties intending to marry
s. 30Publication, when void
s. 31Certificate of publication of banns
s. 32Supply of books for the registration of banns
s. 33Power of the Minister to grant marriage licences
s. 34Restriction of Minister’s power
s. 35Rights of parties obtaining licence
s. 36Application for licences
s. 37Form of licence
s. 38Objections against issue of a licence
s. 39Licence, when void
s. 40Notice of marriage
s. 41Filing and entry of notice
s. 42Publication of notice
s. 43Certificate of notice
s. 44Objections to issue of certificate
s. 45Certificate, when void
s. 46Notice of a marriage
s. 47Power to give notice of marriage intended to take place in the United Kingdom
s. 48Issue of certificates of notice of marriage
s. 49Objections to issue of certificate of notice of marriage
s. 50Recognition of certificates for marriage issued in the United Kingdom
s. 51Power to make regulations
s. 51AApplication for special licences and solemnization of special licence marriages
s. 52Provisions as to solemnisation
s. 53Addition of religious ceremony to civil marriage
s. 54Fee of magistrate, Senior Justice of the Peace or Registrar General for performance of marriage
s. 55Case of marriage between infants after publication of banns
s. 56Marriages which may be performed on authority of magistrate’s certificate
s. 57Marriages according to usages of Society of Friends
s. 58Void marriages
s. 59Supply of register book
s. 60Keeping of register of marriages
s. 61Duplicate Original Marriage Register
s. 62Right to search registers and to have certified copies of entries therein
s. 63Fees payable for search and for certified copies of entries
s. 64Marriage in articulo mortis
s. 65Unduly solemnising marriage. Penalty for fraudulent marriage
s. 66Penalty for fraudulent marriage
s. 67Penalty for forgery of consent, etc
s. 68Making false declaration, etc
s. 69Penalties for false statements
s. 70Performance by magistrate or Senior Justice of the Peace of a void marriage
s. 71Liability of persons lodging an objection on frivolous grounds
s. 72Omission or refusal to comply with requirements
s. 73Dispensing with proof of certain preliminaries
s. 74Prohibiting proceedings to compel marriage
s. 75Securing of property where necessary consent to marriage not obtained
s. 76Marriage officers’ fees
s. 77Savings as to marriages contracted before this Act
s. 78Marriage with deceased wife’s sister validated
s. 79Register of marriages celebrated in the years 1897 to 1916 lost in the fire of 1918