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Unlawfully performing marriage ceremony

Cap. 101, s. 317 · Revised Edition 2020

Every person who performs or witnesses as a marriage officer the ceremony of marriage, knowing that– (a) he is not duly qualified to do so; (b) any of the matters required by law for the validity of such marriage has not happened or been performed; (c) the marriage is void or unlawful on any shall be liable to imprisonment for seven years.
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