Marriage in articulo mortis

(1) A marriage officer may solemnise a marriage, without any licence, or certificate of notice, or publication of banns of matrimony, between two persons, one of whom he believes from the certificate of a medical practitioner, if a medical practitioner has been in attendance on that person, or if no practitioner is actually in attendance on that person or if it appears to the marriage officer impossible to obtain a certificate in time, then from his own observation, to be in articulo mortis, the person, before the solemnisation, declaring that he or she believes that he or she is at the point of death. (2) The marriage shall not be solemnised, (a) unless both parties are able to signify their consent thereto in the presence of two witnesses; (b) where either of the parties is an infant, not being a widower or widow, without the verbal or written consent of the person whose consent is by law required and if that person is present, the consent may be given orally, and the person shall sign the register of the marriage in token of assent thereto, but if the person is absent the consent shall be in writing, and shall be attached to the Duplicate Original (3) A marriage so solemnised or performed shall be specially registered, and the certificate of the medical practitioner, or the marriage officer who performed the ceremony, as the case may be, that in his opinion the sick person is at the point of death, shall be attached to the Duplicate 39 (4) The Original Marriage Register and the Duplicate Original Marriage Register shall contain the particulars required by, and be in, Form 9, but shall in all other respects be subject to the provisions of this Act relating to marriage registers. (5) The certificate to be given by a medical practitioner, or a marriage officer, for the purposes of this section, shall be in Form 10. (6) The fee payable to any government medical officer for the certificate shall be five dollars if a special visit is not required before it can be given, but if a special visit is required, a fee of ten dollars. (7) No marriage solemnised under this section shall be valid unless the foregoing conditions are observed.