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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; 35 (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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