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Registration of buildings in use at the commencement of this Act
Cap. 174, s. 19 · Revised Edition 2020
(1) The head of every denomination of the Christian religion in Belize, within one month after the commencement of this Act,
shall make out and send to the Registrar General a list of all buildings exclusively used as places of public Christian worship belonging to the denomination of which he is head wherein banns of matrimony are to be published.
(2) The Registrar General shall register the buildings in a book to be kept for that purpose at his office and make out, and cause to be published in the Gazette, a list of all of them, in which list there shall be stated the marriage district within which each building so registered is situate.
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(3) A copy of the list, or of the Gazette containing it, shall be sent to the head of every such denomination and every
(4) Where it is desired to register a building belonging to a denomination which has no head in Belize and which has been exclusively used as a place of Christian worship belonging to that denomination, and wherein banns of matrimony are to be published, the person in charge of the building shall do, in respect of it, what by the foregoing provisions is required to be done by the head of a denomination, and the Registrar General shall deal with the building in the manner provided by those
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