Right to search registers and to have certified copies of entries therein

All persons at all reasonable times in the day, except Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays, may search the original registers, and also the file of duplicate original registers, in the presence of the person for the time being having the care of them respectively, or his deputy, and may have a true copy of any entry therein, certified under the hand of the marriage officer or officers for the time being respectively having the custody of the Original Marriage Register or Duplicate Original Marriage Register as aforesaid, as the case may be, which true copy the marriage officer or Registrar General, or his lawful deputy, is hereby required to make, examine and certify under his hand to be a true copy, in the form of the Duplicate Original Marriage Register, except that the copy shall be headed “Certified Copy of Original (or Duplicate Original) Marriage Register”, as the case may be, and shall be dated on the day, month and year when it is delivered. 38