Notice of a marriage

(1) A notice of a marriage intended to be solemnised under the Foreign Marriage Act 1892, Cap.23, shall be given to the Registrar General by one of the parties intending the marriage who has had his or her usual abode in some place in Belize for the week immediately preceding or for such other period as the Minister may, from time to time by Order published in the Gazette, prescribe. (2) The notice shall be given in Form 4 and shall be published in the Gazette for three consecutive weeks on payment of the prescribed fee. (3) The Registrar General, unless he is aware of any impediment or should obstruct the solemnisation of the marriage, shall give a certificate that the notice has been so given and published as aforesaid, in the like manner and in the like form, so far as the same is applicable on payment of the like fee, as in the case of a marriage in a marriage