Objections to issue of certificate

(1) Anyone may enter an objection to the issue of a magistrate’s certificate on the ground of any legal impediment to a marriage between the parties or of consent on the part of 25 anyone whose consent is required to the marriage not having been obtained. (2) The objection shall, (a) be in writing and signed by or on behalf of the person who enters it; (b) state his name and place of residence and the ground of his objection; and (c) be lodged with the magistrate within twenty- one days from the date of the notice set up outside his office under section 42 of this Act. (3) When any objection is so lodged, the magistrate shall transmit it to a justice of the Supreme Court who shall decide upon it as expeditiously as the circumstances of the case will allow, the objection so transmitted being as far as practicable regarded and dealt with as a petition. (4) The magistrate in that case shall suspend the issue of his certificate until he receives a certified copy of the judge’s decision, and shall act in conformity therewith. (5) The costs of and incidental to the decision by a judge on any objection shall be in the judge’s discretion. 26 void.