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Void marriages
Cap. 174, s. 58 · Revised Edition 2020
If any person, except in the case mentioned in Part VI,
knowingly or wilfully intermarry under this Act,
(a) without having given due notice of marriage;
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(b) without a certificate for marriage having been duly issued by a marriage officer to whom notice of marriage was granted;
(c) without a licence by the Minister;
(d) on the authority of a certificate which is void under this Act;
(e) in the case of a marriage in the office of a magistrate or the Registrar General, in the absence of the magistrate or the Registrar General or of two credible witnesses besides the magistrate or the Registrar General; or
(f) in the case of any other marriage, in the absence of a marriage officer or of two credible witnesses besides the marriage the marriage shall be void.
Amended by: 40 of 1963; 14 of 1982
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