Authority for solemnisation

(1) Except in the cases mentioned in Part VI, no marriage shall be solemnised or celebrated unless there is produced to the marriage officer solemnising or celebrating it, a certificate or certificates, as the case may be, of the due publication of the banns within the preceding three months, or a licence of the Minister which is still in force. (2) Where a marriage is to be solemnised by a marriage officer officiating in the registered building in which banns of that marriage has been within the aforesaid period duly published, or is to be celebrated at a district officer’s office where any notice relating to that marriage, and still in force, has been duly given, it shall not be necessary to issue a certificate of the publication in that registered building or of the notice given in that office. banns.