Application for appointment as marriage officer

(1) All applications by ministers of religion for appointment as marriage officers shall be made in writing to the Solicitor General who shall without delay transmit the application to the Minister for his consideration. (2) Every minister of religion acting in that character for a congregation, or having the local superintendence of several congregations, who applies to be appointed a marriage officer shall state in his application the name or other description of the place of public worship or the congregations over which he has local superintendence, and the postal address at or to which all communications intended for him may be delivered or sent. (3) All ministers of religion whose names, designations and usual residences are, at the passing of this Act, registered in the office of the Solicitor General as persons authorised to celebrate marriages pursuant to any law in force at the commencement of this Act shall be deemed to have made applications for appointment under this section as marriage officers, and the Registrar General may require any of such ministers to supply to him, in such form as he may think fit, information regarding the names or other descriptions of the places of public worship of the congregations over they have local superintendence, and the postal addresses at or which all communications intended for them may be delivered or sent. 13