Notice of marriage

(1) The persons who desire to have their marriage celebrated by a magistrate or a senior justice of the peace shall give notice under their hands in Form 2 or to the like effect to the magistrate of the district within which they have dwelt for not less than three days then next preceding. (2) If the parties dwell in different marriage districts, each shall give like notice to the magistrate of the district wherein he or she has dwelt for the period aforesaid. (3) The notice shall have at the foot thereof a statutory declaration, made and signed by the parties or party giving it, stating, (a) that they, or he, or she, as the case may be, know or knows of no impediment of kindred, alliance or other lawful hindrance, to the said (b) that they, or he, or she, as the case may be, for the space of three days immediately preceding the giving of the notice, have or has had their, his or her usual place of abode and residence within the district of the magistrate to whom the notice or notices, as the case may be, is or are so given; and (c) when any of the parties who desire to marry, not being a widower or widow, is an infant, further stating that the consent of the persons whose consent to that marriage is by law required, or a judge, has been given. 24 (4) The declaration may be made before and taken by anyone by law authorised to administer an oath, or before and by the magistrate to whom the notice is about to be given. (5) The said notice shall not be received by any magistrate unless it is in the prescribed form and accompanied by the declaration aforesaid.