Limitation of powers

A magistrate or a senior justice of the peace shall not perform any functions or act in respect of marriages elsewhere than in the magistrate’s office in the district, or otherwise than in accordance with the express provisions of this Act, Provided that the Minister may permit a marriage to be performed elsewhere than in the magistrate’s office in the district on such conditions as to the keeping of records or otherwise as he may think fit, and every such marriage shall be deemed to have been performed in the magistrate’s office, and the provisions of this Act and the regulations made thereunder with respect to the performance of marriages shall apply to every such marriage.