Registration of buildings set apart for religious worship

(1) Any proprietor, trustee or other person who has the sole control of a separate building used as a place of Christian worship may apply to the Registrar General in order that the building may be registered for the publication of banns, and in that case shall deliver or send to the Registrar General a certificate signed by not less than five householders resident within the marriage district, that the building has been and is intended to be used as a usual place of public religious worship, and that they desire the place to be registered for the purposes of this Act, which certificate shall be countersigned by the proprietor, trustee or other person making the application. (2) The Registrar General shall, (a) on receipt of the certificate, register the building in the book in which buildings used for the publication of banns are registered and indorse on the certificate the date of the (b) keep the certificate with the other records of his office, and give a certificate of the registration under his hand on stout paper to the person by whom the certificate is countersigned; 16 (c) give public notice of the registration of the building by advertisement in the Gazette; and (d) demand and receive for the entry, certificate and publication, at the time of the delivery to him of the application or registration, the sum of ten dollars.