Provisions as to solemnisation

Every marriage shall, except in the cases mentioned in Part VI, be solemnised or performed, (a) between the hours of five in the morning and nine in the evening, if solemnised by anyone other than a magistrate or a senior justice of the peace, and between the hours of ten in the morning and four in the afternoon, if performed at a magistrate’s office; (b) by the Registrar General or by some marriage officer in the presence of two or more credible witnesses besides the Registrar General or the (c) according to the form and ceremony the parties see fit to adopt, 32 Provided that in some part of the ceremony, the consent of each party to accept the other as his or her wife or husband is clearly expressed in the presence of the marriage officer and the witnesses; (d) if the marriage is performed in a magistrate’s office or by the Registrar General, by each of the parties saying to the other “I call upon these persons here present to witness that I, A.B., do take thee, C.D., to be my lawful wedded wife (or husband)”.