Unduly solemnising marriage. Penalty for fraudulent marriage

(1) Every person who knowingly and wilfully, (a) solemnises or performs marriage at any other time than between the hours of five in the morning and nine in the evening, except in the case mentioned in Part VI; (b) solemnises or performs marriage, except as aforesaid, without due publication of banns of matrimony, or licence of marriage from the Minister or person authorised by him, or certificate from a magistrate or the Registrar General first had and obtained; (c) solemnises or performs any marriage, except as aforesaid, more than three months after the last publication of banns, or the issue of a 40 licence by the Minister or person authorised by him, or the entry of a notice of the marriage by a magistrate; (d) solemnises or performs, or professes or attempts to solemnise or perform, the marriage of any infant, not being a widower or widow, without the written consent of the person required under this Act to give such consent; (e) solemnises or performs, or professes or attempts to solemnise or perform, the marriage of any infant, not being a widower or widow, under a consent given by a person not required to give it under this Act; or (f) solemnises or performs, or professes or attempts to solemnise or perform, any marriage in any case contrary to, or without compliance with the provisions of, this Act, commits a misdemeanour, and on conviction thereof on indictment shall be liable to a fine not exceeding five thousand dollars or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding two years, or to both such fine and term of imprisonment. (2) All prosecutions under this section shall be commenced within three years after the offence was committed.