Duplicate Original Marriage Register

(1) Before the parties depart from the place of marriage, the marriage officer shall enter in a form, hereinafter referred to as the Duplicate Original Marriage Register, as shown in Form 8, the same matter as is entered in the Original Marriage Register, and this form shall be signed by the marriage officer, the parties to the marriage and the two witnesses thereto. (2) All Duplicate Original Marriage Registers made in any one calendar month shall, within the first ten days of the calendar month next following, be transmitted by the marriage officer to the Registrar General and shall be filed and safely preserved by him in his office. (3) Every marriage officer shall be entitled to demand and receive, out of the moneys which the National Assembly provides for that purpose, the sum of twenty-five cents for every marriage so entered and transmitted. (4) Every Original Marriage Register, and also every copy thereof certified under the hand of the marriage officer, who for the time being has the lawful custody of the original, to be a true copy, and every Duplicate Original Marriage Register, and also every copy thereof, certified, under the hand of the Registrar General or his lawful deputy to be a true copy, shall respectively be good evidence of the facts therein recorded in pursuance of this Act in all courts and proceedings whatever in which it may be necessary to give evidence of the marriage to which they relate.