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Addition of religious ceremony to civil marriage

Cap. 174, s. 53 · Revised Edition 2020

(1) If the parties to a marriage contracted at the magistrate’s office or performed by the Registrar General desire to add the religious ceremony ordained or used by any church or persuasion to the marriage so contracted, they may present themselves for that purpose to any minister of that church or persuasion, who, upon the production of their certificate of marriage by the magistrate or the Registrar General, may if he thinks fit, perform the marriage service of the church or persuasion to which he belongs, but nothing in the performance of that service shall supersede or invalidate a marriage so previously contracted, nor shall the performance of that service be entered as a marriage among the marriages in any marriage register provided under this Act. (2) No religious service shall be used at any marriage performed at a magistrate’s office or by the Registrar General.

Amended by: 14 of 1982; 6 of 2000

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