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                        <b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Arial">
                        MARRIAGE ORDINANCE, 1951 (CAP 127)</span></b></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">As amended </span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Section</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">PART 1—PRELIMINARY</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">1. Short Title and 
                        Application.</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">2. Interpretation.</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">3. Constitution of 
                        Marriage Districts.</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">4. Appointment of 
                        Registrars of Marriages.</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">5. Offices of 
                        Registrars.</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">6. Appointment of 
                        Marriage Officers.</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">7. Savings of Orders 
                        Made Under Section 3, 4, 5, and 6 as Applied to Ashanti 
                        and the Northern Territories by Cap. 110 and Cap. 111.
                        </span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">8. Places of Worship to 
                        be Licensed for Celebration of Marriages.</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">9. Authorities for 
                        Solemnisation of Marriage.</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">PART 2—PRELIMINARIES TO 
                        MARRIAGE</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Division 1—Registrar's 
                        Certificate.</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">10. Notice of Marriage.</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">11. Notice by Person 
                        Unable to Write or to Understand English.</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">12. Registrar to Supply 
                        Forms of Notice.</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">13. Notice to be 
                        Entered in Marriage Notice Book and Published.</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">14. Issue of 
                        Certificate of Notice. </span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">15. Issue of 
                        Certificate of Notice. </span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Division 2—Marriage 
                        Officer's Certificate.</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">16. Notices for Banns.</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">17. By whom to be 
                        Published. Authority to Publish Banns.</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">18. Method of 
                        Publication.</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">19. Endorsement of 
                        Publication of Banns on Notice. </span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">20. Prohibition of 
                        Banns.</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">21. Issue of Marriage 
                        Officer's Certificate.</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">22. If Marriage not 
                        Solemnised within Three Months.</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Division 3—Special 
                        Licence.</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">23. Special Licence by 
                        Principal Registrar. </span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">24. Caveat.</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Division 4—Objections 
                        to Marriage.</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">25. When Caveat 
                        Entered, Question to be Referred to Court.</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">26. Removal of Caveat.</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Division 5—Consent to 
                        Marriage in Certain Cases Necessary.</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">27. Consent to Marriage 
                        of Minors.</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">28. Signature of 
                        Consent by Person unable to Write or to Understand 
                        English Language.</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">29. If No Parent or 
                        Guardian Capable of Consenting, any Judge, Etc., may 
                        give Consent.</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">PART 3—CELEBRATION OF 
                        MARRIAGE</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">30. Marriages in 
                        Licensed Place of Worship by Recognised Minister.&nbsp; 
                        Between Hours of 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. Witnesses.</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">31. Minister not to 
                        Celebrate Marriage in Certain Cases.</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">32. Where Minister may 
                        Celebrate Marriage.</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">33. Registrar, Etc., to 
                        be Provided with Books or Certificates.</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">34. Entries to be made 
                        in Marriage Certificate.</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">35. Signature of 
                        Certificates.&nbsp; Duplicate Certificate to be Sent to 
                        Registrar.</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">36. Marriage in a 
                        Registrar's Office.</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">37. Marriage 
                        Certificate to be Signed Duplicate Certificate to be 
                        Filed in Registrar's&nbsp; Office.</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">38. Marriage under 
                        Principal Registrar's Licence.</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">PART 4—REGISTRY AND 
                        EVIDENCE OF MARRIAGES</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">39. Marriage Register 
                        Book.</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">40. Correction of 
                        Clerical Errors in Marriage Certificates.</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">41. Evidence of 
                        Marriage.</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">PART 5—INVALID 
                        MARRIAGES</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">42. Marriage with 
                        Deceased Wife's Sister or Niece Lawful.</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">43. Marriages under 
                        Ordinance Valid.</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">44. Native Marriages, 
                        Effect of Ordinance as to.</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">PART 6—MARRIAGES 
                        ALREADY CELEBRATED</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">45. Certain Existing 
                        Marriages Validated.</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">46. Existing Registers 
                        of Marriages to be Transmitted to Principal Registrar.</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">47. Certain Expenses to 
                        be Defrayed from General Revenue.</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">PART 7—SUCCESSION TO 
                        INTESTATE'S PROPERTY</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">48. Effect of Marriage 
                        in case of Natives.</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">49. Legitimation of 
                        Children born before Marriage.</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">PART 8—FEES</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">50. Fees.</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">51. Fees may be 
                        Remitted on Ground of Poverty.</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">52. Ministers may 
                        Receive Customary Fees.</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">PART 9—FORMS</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">53. Forms.</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">53A. Repeals.</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">SCHEDULES</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Schedule 1</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Form A—Registrar's 
                        certificate.</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Form B—Special licence.</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Form C—Book of marriage 
                        certificates.</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Form D—Marriage 
                        register book</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Form E—Notice for banns 
                        (By one party only)</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Form F—Notice for 
                        banns&nbsp; (Notice for Banns (by Both Parties).</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Form G—Authority to 
                        publish banns of marriage</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Form H—Endorsement of 
                        publication of banns.</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Form I—Marriage 
                        officer's certificate. (Marriage Officer's Certificate 
                        (where notice given by one Party).</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Form J—Marriage 
                        officer's certificate. (Marriage Officer's Certificate 
                        (where joint Notice given.)</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Schedule 2—Fees</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">(GOLD COAST)</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">McCarthy</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Cap. 105.</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Ordinances</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Nos.</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">14 of 1884,</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">2 of 1909,</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">6 of 1909,</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">18 of 1914,</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">17 of 1921,</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">s.2,</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">30 of 1935,</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">44 of 1935,</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">45 of 1935,</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">34 of 1950,</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">13 of 1951,</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">50 of 1952.</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">AN ORDINANCE FOR 
                        REGULATING THE LAW OF MARRIAGE</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Date of Commencement. 
                        19th November, 1884.</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">PART 1—PRELIMINARY</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Section 1—Short Title 
                        and Application.</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">This ordinance may be 
                        cited as the &quot;Marriage Ordinance,&quot; and shall apply to 
                        the Gold Coast. (30 of 1935, s.2.)</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Section 
                        2—Interpretation.</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">In this Ordinance, 
                        unless the context otherwise requires—</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">&quot;Council&quot; means any 
                        city or District Council established under the Local 
                        Government Act, 1993 (Act 462) and includes the area of 
                        authority of a District Assembly [As inserted by the 
                        Local Government Act, 1993 (Act 462), sch. 7]</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">District</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">&quot;District&quot; means a 
                        marriage district constituted under this Ordinance.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Principal Registrar</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">“Principal Registrar'’ 
                        means the Registrar General.[As substituted by the 
                        Marriage (Amendment) Ordinance, 1954 (No. 12 of 1954), 
                        s.2]</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Registrar</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">&quot;Registrar&quot; means a 
                        registrar of marriages, and includes an officer of the 
                        District Assembly designated for the purpose by the 
                        District Chief Executive;[As amended by The Local 
                        Government Act, 1993 (Act 462), sch. 7] </span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Section 3—Constitution 
                        of Marriage Districts.</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">The Governor in Council 
                        shall, by order published in the Gazette, divide the 
                        Gold Coast into districts for the purposes of this 
                        Ordinance, herein referred to as marriage districts, and 
                        may from time to time by order published in the Gazette, 
                        alter the marriage districts, either by alteration of 
                        boundaries or by union or subdivision of districts, or 
                        by the formation of new districts. (Amended by 30 of 
                        1935, s.2.)</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Section 4—Appointment 
                        of Registrars of Marriages.</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) The Minister 
                        responsible for the Interior shall, from time to time, 
                        appoint a fit and proper person to be the registrar of 
                        marriages for each marriage district, and may revoke 
                        such appointments, and may also from time to time 
                        appoint a deputy registrar or deputy registrars of 
                        marriages for a district.&nbsp; (Amended by 34 of 1950, s.3. 
                        and further amended by The Marriage (Amendment) 
                        Ordinance, 1956 s.2]</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) The Minister 
                        responsible for the Interior may also appoint a deputy 
                        registrar of marriages for any particular place. (Added 
                        by 34 of 1950, s.3, and amended by 50 of 1952.)[As 
                        amended by The Marriage (Amendment) Ordinance, 1956 (No. 
                        26 of 1956), s.2]</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">(3) A deputy registrar 
                        of marriages shall, within the district or place for 
                        which he is appointed, have all the powers of a 
                        registrar of marriages. (Added by 34 of 1950, s.3.)</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Section 5—Offices of 
                        Registrars.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Every registrar shall 
                        have an office at such place in his district as the 
                        Minister responsible for the Interior shall from time to 
                        time direct. The office of the Principal Registrar shall 
                        be at the seat of government.[As amended by The Marriage 
                        (Amendment) Ordinance, 1956 (No. 26 of 1956), s.2]</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Section 6—Appointment 
                        of Marriage Officers.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) The Minister 
                        responsible for the Interior may, by writing under his 
                        hand, appoint any minister of religion to be a marriage 
                        officer for such marriage district or districts as may 
                        be named in such writing, and may in like manner vary or 
                        suspend or revoke any such appointment.[As amended by 
                        The Marriage (Amendment) Ordinance, 1956 (No. 26 of 
                        1956), s.2]</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Publication</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) Every such 
                        appointment, variation, suspension, and revocation shall 
                        take effect on publication in the Gazette.</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Liberty of Minister</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">(3) No minister who is 
                        appointed a marriage officer shall be compellable to act 
                        as a marriage officer with respect to any marriage which 
                        is contrary to the rules of the religious denomination 
                        to which he belongs.&nbsp; (Added by 2 of 1909, s.2.)</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Section 7—Savings of 
                        Orders Made Under Section 3, 4, 5, and 6 as Applied to 
                        Ashanti and the Northern Territories by Cap. 110 and 
                        Cap. 111. </span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) All orders made 
                        under sections 3, 4, 5, and 6, as applied to Ashanti by 
                        section 22* of the Administration (Ashanti) Ordinance, 
                        and to the Northern Territories by section 22+ of the 
                        Administration (Northern Territories) Ordinance and in 
                        force on the 1st day of July, 1935, shall be deemed to 
                        have been made and to be in force under this Ordinance. 
                        (Added by 30 of 1935, s.2)</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) Subsection (1) 
                        shall, with effect from the 1st day of July, 1935, in 
                        its application to Ashanti and the Northern Territories 
                        be read and construed as if there were inserted after 
                        the figure &quot;6&quot; the words and figure &quot;and licences 
                        granted under section 8&quot;.&nbsp; (Amended by 44 and 45 of 
                        1935, s.2.)</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Section 8—Places of 
                        Worship to be Licensed for Celebration of Marriages.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) A Regional Officer 
                        or Senior Government Agent may license any place of 
                        public worship within his region or the area of his 
                        jurisdiction as the case may be to be a place for the 
                        celebration of marriages, and may at any time cancel 
                        such licence: in either case the Regional Officer or the 
                        Senior Government Agent, as the case may be shall give 
                        notice thereof in the Gazette. (Amended by 17 of 1921, 
                        s.2.)[As amended by the Marriage (Amendment) Ordinance, 
                        1956 (No. 26 of 1956), s.3(a)]</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) In Ashanti and the 
                        Northern Territories, the Chief Commissioner may license 
                        any place of public worship to be a place for the 
                        celebration of marriages, and may at any time cancel 
                        such licence; in either case the Chief Regional Officer 
                        shall give notice thereof in the Gazette. (Amended by 44 
                        and 45 of 1935, s:2.)[As amended by the Marriage 
                        (Amendment) Ordinance, 1956 (No. 26 of 1956), s.3(b)]</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Cap. 110</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Cap. 111</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Ashanti No. 8 of 1932.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">N.T. No. 7 of 1932.
                        </span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">(3) Any question 
                        arising after the 31st day of December, 1935, as to the 
                        validity of any licence granted under subsection (1) of 
                        section 8, in its application to Ashanti under the 
                        Administration (Ashanti) Ordinance or to the Northern 
                        Territories under the Administration (Northern 
                        Territories) Ordinance, by a Provincial Commissioner or 
                        the Assistant Chief Commissioner discharging ex officio 
                        the powers of a Provincial Commissioner under section 3 
                        of the Ashanti Assistant Chief Commissioner's Ordinance, 
                        1932, or under section 3 of the Northern Territories 
                        Assistant Chief Commissioner's Ordinance, 1932, shall be 
                        determined as if the provisions of subsection (2) of 
                        section 8 had been in force as from the 1st day of July, 
                        1935. (44 and 45 of 1935, s.4.)</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Section 9—Authorities 
                        for Solemnisation of Marriage.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Marriage may be 
                        solemnised under the authority of—</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) A registrar's 
                        certificate;</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) Marriage officers' 
                        certificates, or one such certificate, when sufficient;</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">(3) A special licence 
                        from the Principal Registrar. (Added by 2 of 1909, 
                        s.3.)[As amended by the Marriage (Amendment) Ordinance, 
                        1956 (No. 26 of 1956), s.4]</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">PART 2—PRELIMINARIES TO 
                        MARRIAGE</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Division 1—Registrar's 
                        Certificate.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Section 10—Notice of 
                        Marriage.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Whenever after the 
                        commencement of this Ordinance, any persons desire to 
                        marry under the authority of a registrar's certificate, 
                        one of the parties to the intended marriage shall sign 
                        and give to the registrar of the district in which the 
                        marriage is intended to take place, a notice in the 
                        following form—</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">NOTICE OF MARRIAGE</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">To the Registrar of 
                        Marriages for the District of the Gold Coast.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">I hereby give you 
                        notice that a marriage is intended to be had within 
                        three months from the date hereof between me the 
                        undersigned and the other party herein named.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;Name.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
                        Condition.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Occupation, rank or profession.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
                        Age.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Dwelling or place of abode. Consent, if any, and 
                        by whom given.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Bridegroom</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Bride ...&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
                        Bachelor or widower</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Spinster or widow.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
                        Boatman, etc. (as case may be).</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Washer (as case may 
                        be).&nbsp;&nbsp; 23</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">18&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; James Town, 
                        Accra.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Ussher Town, 
                        Accra.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Father.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
                        </span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Witness my hand, 
                        this&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; day 
                        of&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 19,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; .</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Signature,</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">(Amended by 2 of 1909, 
                        s.4, and 30 of 1935, s.2.)</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Section 11—Notice by 
                        Person Unable to Write or to Understand English.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Should the person 
                        giving such notice be unable to write or be 
                        insufficiently acquainted with the English language, or 
                        both, then it shall be sufficient if the places his mark 
                        or cross thereto in the presence of some literate person 
                        who shall attest the same, which attestation shall be in 
                        the following form—</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Signed by the 
                        ........................ said at 
                        ........................... on the day of 
                        ..................... , 19&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; :&nbsp; this paper, writing, 
                        or notice having been first read over to him (her) (or 
                        read over and truly interpreted to him (her) in the 
                        language), by, he (she) seemed to understand the same 
                        and made his (her) mark thereto in my presence.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Signed,</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Section 12—Registrar to 
                        Supply Forms of Notice.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Every registrar shall 
                        supply forms of notice gratuitously to persons applying 
                        for the same.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Section 13—Notice to be 
                        Entered in Marriage Notice Book and Published.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Upon receipt of such 
                        notice the registrar shall cause the same to be entered 
                        in a book to be called the Marriage Notice Book, which 
                        may be inspected during office hours without fee: he 
                        shall also publish such notice by causing a copy of the 
                        same to be affixed on the outer door of his office, or 
                        on a notice board outside his office, and to be kept 
                        exposed there until he grant his certificate as 
                        hereinafter mentioned, or until three months shall have 
                        elapsed.&nbsp; (Amended by 2 of 1909, s.5.)</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Section 14—Issue of 
                        Certificate of Notice. </span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Schedule 1, Form A.
                        </span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Proof of Conditions.
                        </span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">The registrar at any 
                        time after the expiration of twenty-one days and before 
                        the expiration of three months from the date of the 
                        notice, upon payment of the prescribed fee, shall 
                        thereupon issue his certificate in the Form A in 
                        Schedule 1: Provided always that he shall not issue such 
                        certificate until he has been satisfied by affidavit—</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Residence</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) That one of the 
                        parties has been resident within the district in which 
                        the marriage is intended to be celebrated at least 
                        fifteen days preceeding the granting of the certificate.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) [Repealed by the 
                        Children's Act, 1998 (Act 560), sch. to s.125].</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">No Impediment</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">(3) That there is not 
                        any impediment of kindred or affinity, or any other 
                        lawful hindrance to the marriage.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">No Existing Native 
                        Marriage</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">(4) That neither of the 
                        parties to the intended marriage is married by native 
                        law or custom to any person other than the person with 
                        whom such marriage is proposed to be contracted.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Such affidavit may be 
                        sworn before the registrar, or before a Magistrate. 
                        (Amended by 30 of 1935, s.2.)</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Explanations to be 
                        Given. Cap 9.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">The registrar or 
                        Magistrate taking such affidavit shall explain to the 
                        person making the same what are the prohibited degrees 
                        of kindred and affinity, and the penalties which may be 
                        incurred under sections 448 and 449 of the Criminal 
                        Code. (Amended by 2 of 1909, s. 6.)</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Section 15—Marriage to 
                        take Place Within Three Months After Date of Notice.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">If the marriage shall 
                        not take place within three months after the date of the 
                        notice, the notice and all proceedings consequent 
                        thereupon shall be void; and fresh notice must be given 
                        before the parties can lawfully marry under a 
                        registrar's certificate. (Amended by 2 of 1909, s.7.)</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Division 2—Marriage 
                        Officer's Certificate.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Section 16—Notices for 
                        Banns.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">By One Party.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Schedule 1, Form E</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Joint Notice. </span>
                        </p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Schedule 1, Form F.
                        </span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Marriage Officers' 
                        Certificate.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Schedule 1, Form J.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Whenever any persons 
                        desire to marry under the authority of a marriage 
                        officer's certificate, each of such persons shall, four 
                        days at least before the time required for the first 
                        publication of banns of marriage, deliver to a marriage 
                        officer for the district in which he or she resides, a 
                        notice in writing in the Form E in Schedule 1: Provided 
                        that where both such persons have for fifteen days 
                        previously to giving such notice resided in the same 
                        town or village, and are members or the same religious 
                        denomination, a single notice in the Form F in Schedule 
                        1 shall be sufficient, and banns of marriage need be 
                        published only in the place of worship of such religious 
                        denomination at that town or village, and one marriage 
                        officer's certificate in the Form J in Schedule 1 shall 
                        be sufficient authority for the solemnisation of the 
                        marriage. (Added by 2 of 1909, s.8.) </span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Section 17—By Whom to 
                        be Published. Authority to Publish Banns.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Schedule 1, Form G.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) On the receipt of 
                        such notice of intended marriage the marriage officer 
                        shall (subject to the provisions of subsection (3) of 
                        section 6) either personally publish published the banns 
                        of marriage between the parites named in such notice at 
                        the town or village where the person giving such notice 
                        resides, in the place of worship of the religious 
                        denomination to which such person belongs, or shall 
                        cause such banns to be there published by some persons 
                        duly authorised for the purpose in writing by the 
                        marriage officer by endorsement on the notice in the 
                        Form G in Schedule 1.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) Where separate 
                        notices of an intended marriage are required to be 
                        given, banns must be published separately in respect of 
                        each of such notices. (Added by 2 of 1909, s.8.)</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Section 18—Method of 
                        Publication.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Form of Banns. </span>
                        </p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) Publication shall 
                        be made in the face of the congregation in an audible 
                        manner both in English and the vernacular some time 
                        during public divine service on a Sunday afternoon or 
                        evening and shall be in the following form—</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">I publish the banns of 
                        marriage between (name of intended husband) of (state 
                        place of residence, as in notice) bachelor (or widower, 
                        as the case may be), and (name of intended wife) of 
                        (state place of residence, as in notice) spinster (or 
                        widow, as the case may be).</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">If any of you know 
                        cause or just impediment why these two persons should 
                        not be joined together in holy matrimony, ye are to 
                        declare it.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">This is for the first 
                        (second, or third, as the case may be) time of asking.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) Such publication 
                        shall be made on three Sundays.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Provided that where the 
                        person authorised to publish the banns is not familiar 
                        with the vernacular it shall be lawful for him to depute 
                        some person to publish the banns in the vernacular, and 
                        the banns shall be so published in the vernacular 
                        immediately after their publication in English. (Added 
                        by 2 of 1909, s.8.)</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Section 19—Endorsement 
                        of Publication of Banns on Notice. </span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Schedule 1, Form H.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">The person publishing 
                        the banns shall endorse the dates of such publications 
                        on the notice, in the Form H in Schedule 1, and if he be 
                        not the marriage officer, shall return the notice duly 
                        endorsed to the marriage officer. (Added by 2 of 1909, 
                        s.8.)</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Section 20—Prohibition 
                        of Banns.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">A person desiring to 
                        forbid a marriage by banns shall do so in manner 
                        provided by section 24.&nbsp; (Added by 2 of 1909, s.8.)
                        </span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Section 21—Issue of 
                        Marriage Officer's Certificate.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Schedule 1, Form I.
                        </span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Schedule 1, Form J.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">The marriage officer on 
                        being satisfied of the due publication of the banns, and 
                        if no caveat shall have been entered as hereinafter 
                        provided, or if any such caveat has been entered but 
                        duly removed, shall at any time within three months of 
                        the date of the last publication of banns grant to the 
                        person by whom the notice of intended marriage has been 
                        given, if a separate notice, a marriage officer's 
                        certificate in the Form I in Schedule 1, or to one of 
                        the persons by whom a joint notice of intended marriage 
                        has been given, a certificate in the Form J in the said 
                        Schedule 1. (Added by 2 of 1909, s.8.)</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Section 22—If Marriage 
                        not Solemnised within Three Months.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">If the marriage shall 
                        not have been solemnised within three months of the last 
                        publication of banns, such publication and all 
                        proceedings consequent thereon shall be void, and before 
                        the parties can be married by banns it shall be 
                        necessary to re-publish banns anew in manner and form 
                        aforesaid, as if no banns had ever been published 
                        between them. (Added by 2 of 1909, s.8.)</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Division 3—Special 
                        Licence.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Section 23—Special 
                        Licence by Principal Registrar. </span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Schedule 1, Form B.
                        </span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">The Principal 
                        Registrar, upon proof being made to him by affidavit 
                        that there is no lawful impediment to the proposed 
                        marriage, and that the necessary consent, if any, to 
                        such marriage has been obtained, may, if he shall think 
                        fit, dispense with the giving of notice, and with the 
                        issue of the certificate of the registrar, and may grant 
                        his licence, which shall be according to Form B in 
                        Schedule 1, authorising the celebration of a marriage 
                        between the parties named in such licence by a 
                        registrar, or by a recognised minister of some religious 
                        denomination or body.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Any such marriage may 
                        be celebrated in a place other than a licensed place of 
                        worship or a registrar's office if the Principal 
                        Registrar so authorises. (Amended by 34 of 1950, 
                        s.4.)[As amended by the Marriage (Amendment) Ordinance, 
                        1956 (No. 26 of 1956), s.4]</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Division 4—Objections 
                        to Marriage.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Section 24—Caveat.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) Any person whose 
                        consent to a marriage is hereby required, or who may 
                        know of any just cause why the marriage should not take 
                        place, may enter a caveat against the issue of a 
                        registrar's or marriage officer's certificate in manner 
                        following—</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Against Issue of 
                        Registrar's Certificate.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">(a) If the marriage is 
                        to be solemnised under the authority of a registrar's 
                        certificate, such person shall at any time before the 
                        issue of such certificate write the word &quot;Forbidden&quot; 
                        opposite to the entry of the notice in the Marriage 
                        Notice Book and append thereto his name and place of 
                        abode, and the grounds upon or by reason of which he 
                        claims to forbid the marriage;</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Against Issue of 
                        Marriage Officer's Certificate.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">(b) If the marriage is 
                        to be solemnised under the authority of marriage 
                        officers' certificates, or one such certificate, after 
                        publication of banns, such person shall give notice in 
                        writing to the person publishing the banns that he 
                        forbids the marriage and shall append his name and place 
                        of abode to such notice, and specify therein the grounds 
                        upon or by reason of which he claims to forbid the 
                        marriage. The person publishing the banns, if he be not 
                        the marriage officer, shall forward such notice without 
                        delay to the marriage officer, and shall, unless he 
                        shall have already returned the notice of the intending 
                        marriage to the marriage officer, record on such notice 
                        of intended marriage the fact and date of the receipt of 
                        the notice forbidding the marriage.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Effect of Caveat.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) No registrar or 
                        marriage officer shall issue his certificate until such 
                        caveat is removed as hereinafter provided. (Substituted 
                        by 2 of 1909, s.10.)</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Section 25—When Caveat 
                        Entered, Question to be Referred to Court.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) Whenever a caveat 
                        is entered against the issue of a registrar's or 
                        marriage officer's certificate, the registrar or 
                        marriage officer, as the case may be, shall without 
                        delay refer the matter to a Judge of the nearest 
                        Divisional Court.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) If the Judge is of 
                        opinion that no legal ground has been disclosed in the 
                        caveat for forbidding the issue of the certificate, he 
                        may remove the caveat in manner hereinafter prescribed 
                        without requiring any of the parties to appear.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">(3) In other cases the 
                        Judge shall summon the parties to the intended marriage, 
                        and the person by whom the caveat has been entered, and 
                        shall require such last-named person to show cause why 
                        the registrar or marriage officer, as the case may be, 
                        should not in due course issue his certificate.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">(4) Every such case 
                        shall be heard and determined in a summary way, and the 
                        Judge may award compensation and costs to the party 
                        injured, if it appear that a caveat was entered on 
                        insufficient grounds. The decision of the Judge shall be 
                        final. (Substituted by 2 of 1909, s.10.)</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Section 26—Removal of 
                        Caveat.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) If the Judge 
                        decides that the certificate ought to issue, he shall 
                        remove the caveat in manner following, viz—</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">In Case of Registrar's 
                        Certificate.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">(a) In the case of a 
                        registrar's certificate, by cancelling the word 
                        &quot;Forbidden&quot; in the Marriage Notice Book in ink, and 
                        writing in such Marriage Notice Book immediately below 
                        such entry and cancellation, the words &quot;Cancelled this 
                        day of&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; , 19&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; , by order 
                        of the Divisional Court at&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ,&quot; and signing 
                        his name thereto;</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">In Case of Marriage 
                        Officer's Certificate.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">(b) In the case of a 
                        marriage officer's certificate, by a declaration under 
                        his hand that the intended marriage is proper and may be 
                        solemnised in due course, a certified copy of which 
                        declaration shall be forwarded by the registrar of the 
                        Court to the marriage officer by whom the caveat was 
                        referred.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Effect of Removal</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) On the removal of 
                        the caveat the registrar or marriage officer, as the 
                        case may be, may issue his certificate in due course, 
                        and the marriage officer, as the case may be, may issue 
                        his certificate in due course, and the marriage may 
                        proceed as if the caveat had not been entered, but the 
                        time that has elapsed between the entering and the 
                        removal of the caveat shall not be computed in the 
                        period of three months specified in section 13, 14, 15, 
                        or 22. SUbstituted by 20 of 1909, s.10.)</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Division 5—Consent to 
                        Marriage in Certain Cases Necessary.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Section 27—Consent to 
                        Marriage of Minors.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">[Repealed by the 
                        Children's Act, 1998 (Act 560), sch. to s.125]</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Section 28—Signature of 
                        Consent by Person unable to Write or to Understand 
                        English Language.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">If the person required 
                        to sign such consent is unable to write or is 
                        insufficiently acquainted with the English language or 
                        both, then he shall sign such consent by placing his 
                        mark or cross thereto in the presence of one of the 
                        following persons—</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) Any Judge;</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) Any Magistrate;</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">(3) [As deleted by 
                        Marriage (Amendment) Ordinance, 1956 s.5]</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">(4) Any Registrar of 
                        Marriages;</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">(5) Any Registrar of 
                        the Supreme Court;</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">(6) Any Government 
                        Medical Officer or Medical Officer of Her Majesty's 
                        Forces;</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">(7) Any minister of 
                        religion.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Such signature shall be 
                        attested by such person and shall be in the following 
                        form or as near thereto as may be—</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Signed by the said at 
                        on the day of&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; , 19&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; :&nbsp; this 
                        paper, writing, or consent having been first read over 
                        and truly interpreted) to him (her) in the&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
                        language by&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; he (she) seemed to understand 
                        the same, and made his (her) mark thereto in my 
                        presence.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Before me,</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">A.B.,</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Judge or Magistrate (or 
                        as the case may be).</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">(Amended by 30 of 1935, 
                        s.2.)</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Section 29—If No Parent 
                        or Guardian Capable of Consenting, any Judge, Etc., may 
                        give Consent.1</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">If there be no parent 
                        or guardian of such party residing in the Gold Coast and 
                        capable of consenting to the marriage, then any of the 
                        following persons may consent to such marriage in 
                        writing, upon being satisfied after due enquiry that the 
                        marriage is a proper one—</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) [Deleted by 
                        Marriage (Amendment) Ordinance, 1956 (No. 26 of 1956), 
                        s.6]</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) Any Judge;</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">(3) The 
                        Attorney-General;</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">(4) Any Magistrate,</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">and such consent shall 
                        be as effectual as if the father or mother had 
                        consented. (Amended by 30 of 1935, s.2.)</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">PART 3—CELEBRATION OF 
                        MARRIAGE</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Section 30—Marriages in 
                        Licensed Place of Worship by Recognised Minister.&nbsp; 
                        Between Hours of 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. Witnesses.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Marriages may hereafter 
                        be celebrated in any licensed place of worship by any 
                        recognised minister of the church, denomination, or boy 
                        to which such place of worship belongs, and according to 
                        therites or usages of marriage observed in such church, 
                        denomination, or body, provided that the marriage be 
                        celebrated with open doors between the hours of eight 
                        o'clock in the forenoon and six o'clock in the 
                        afternoon, and in the presence of two or more witnesses 
                        besides the officiating minister.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Section 31—Minister not 
                        to Celebrate Marriage in Certain Cases.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">No minister shall 
                        celebrate any marriage if he knows of any just 
                        impediment to such marriage, nor shall he celebrate any 
                        marriage until the parties deliver to him either—</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Schedule 1, Form A</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) A registrar's 
                        certificate; or</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Schedule 1, Form 1.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Schedule 1, Form J.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) Two marriage 
                        officers' certificates in the Form I in Schedule 1, one 
                        in respect of each party, or one marriage officer's 
                        certificate in the Form J in Schedule 1; or</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Schedule 1, Form B.
                        </span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">(3) The Principal 
                        Registrar licence. (Substituted by 2 of 1909, s.11.)[As 
                        amended by the Marriage (Amendment) Ordinance, 1956 (No. 
                        26 of 1956), s.7] </span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Section 32—Where 
                        Minister May Celebrate Marriage.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">No minister shall 
                        celebrate any marriage except in a building which has 
                        been duly licensed under the provisions of section 8 of 
                        this Ordinance, or in such place as the Principal 
                        Registrar's licence may direct.[As amended by the 
                        Marriage (Amendment) Ordinance, 1956 (No. 26 of 1956), 
                        s.8]</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Section 33—Registrar, 
                        Etc., to be Provided with Books or Certificates.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Schedule 1, Form C.
                        </span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">The Principal Registrar 
                        shall cause to be printed and delivered to the several 
                        registrars, and to the recognised ministers of licensed 
                        places of worship, books of marriage certificates in 
                        duplicate and with counterfoils in the form marked C in 
                        Schedule 1. Such books shall be kept by the several 
                        registrars and the recognised ministers for the time 
                        being of such places of worship, under lock and key, and 
                        being the custody of such registrars and ministers 
                        respectively, who shall so soon as all the marriages 
                        certificates in any such book have been used, send the 
                        said book with the counterfoils duly filled in to the 
                        Principal Registrar, who shall preserve the same in his 
                        office.[As amended by the Marriage (Amendment) 
                        Ordinance, 1956 (No. 26 of 1956), s.9]</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Section 34—Entries to 
                        be made in Marriage Certificate.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Immediately after the 
                        celebration of any marriage by a minister, the 
                        officiating minister shall make the following entries in 
                        duplicate in the marriage certificate—</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) The number of the 
                        certificate;</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) The date of 
                        marriage;</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">(3) The names of the 
                        parties;</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">(4) Whether of full age 
                        or minor;</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">(5) Condition, whether 
                        bachelor or widower, spinster or widow;</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">(6) Occupation, rank, 
                        or profession;</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">(7) Residence at time 
                        of marriage;</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">(8) Father's or 
                        mother's name, if known; their occupatIon, if&nbsp; known.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">And he shall make the 
                        first three entries and also enter the names of the 
                        witnesses in the counterfoil thereof.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Section 35—Signature of 
                        Certificates.&nbsp; Duplicate Certificate to be Sent to 
                        Registrar.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">The certificates shall 
                        then be signed in duplicate by the officiating minister, 
                        by the parties, and by two or more witnesses to the 
                        marriage. The minister, having also signed his name to 
                        the counterfoil, shall sever the duplicate certificate 
                        therefrom, and shall deliver one certificate to the 
                        parties and shall within seven days thereafter transmit 
                        the other to the registrar of marriages for the district 
                        in which the marriage takes place, who shall file the 
                        same in his office.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Section 36—Marriage in 
                        a Registrar's Office.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Form to be Observed.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">After the issue of a 
                        certificate by a registrar under section 14 or section 
                        26, the parties may, if they think fit, contract a 
                        marriage before any registrar in the presence of two 
                        witnesses in his office with open doors,between the 
                        hours of eight o'clock in the forenoon and four o'clock 
                        in the afternoon on any week-day not being a public 
                        holiday and in the following manner— (Amended by 34 of 
                        1950 s.5.)[As amended by the Marriage (Amendment) 
                        Ordinance, 1956 (No. 26 of 1956), s.10]</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">The registrar shall, 
                        either directly or through an interpreter, address the 
                        parties thus—</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">&quot;Do I understand you 
                        A.B. and you C.D. that you come here for the purpose of 
                        becoming man and wife?&quot;</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Upon their answering in 
                        the affirmative he shall proceed thus—</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">&quot;Know ye that by the 
                        public taking of each other as man and wife in my 
                        presence and in the presence of the persons now here, 
                        and by the subsequent attestation thereof by signing 
                        your names to that effect, you become legally married to 
                        each other, although no other rite of a civil or 
                        religious nature shall take place, and that this 
                        marriage cannot be dissolved during your lifetime, 
                        except by a valid judgment of divorce, and if either of 
                        you before the death of the other, shall contract 
                        another marriage while this remains undissolved, you 
                        will be thereby guilty of bigamy, and liable to the 
                        punishment inflicted for that offence.&quot;</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Each of the parties 
                        shall then say to the other—</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">&quot;I call upon all 
                        persons here present to witness that I, A.B., do take 
                        thee, C.D., to be my lawful wife (or husband).&quot; (Amended 
                        by 2 of 1909, s.12.)</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Section 37—Marriage 
                        Certificate to be Signed Duplicate Certificate to be 
                        Filed in Registrar's&nbsp; Office.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">The registrar shall 
                        then fill up, and he and the parties and witnesses shall 
                        sign the certificate of the marriage in duplicate, and 
                        the registrar shall fill up and sign the counterfoil as 
                        hereinbefore prescribed in the case of a marriage by a 
                        minister, and shall deliver one certificate to the 
                        parties and shall file the other in his office.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Section 38—Marriage 
                        Under Principal Registrar's Licence.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Whenever the Principal 
                        Registrar's licence authorises the celebration of 
                        marriage at a place other than a licensed place or 
                        worship, or the office of a registrar of marriages, the 
                        registrar of the district in which such marriage is 
                        intended to take place, upon the production of such 
                        licence, shall deliver to the person producing the same, 
                        a blank certificate of marriage in duplicate, and the 
                        minister or registrar celebrating such marriage shall 
                        fill up such certificate, and observe strictly all the 
                        formalities herein before prescribed as to marriages in 
                        a licensed place of worship, or registrar's office, as 
                        the case may be.[As amended by the Marriage (Amendment) 
                        Ordinance, 1956 (No. 26 of 1956), s.7]</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">PART 4—REGISTRY AND 
                        EVIDENCE OF MARRIAGES</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Section 39—Marriage 
                        Register Book.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Schedule 1, Form D.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Schedule 2</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Certified Copies of 
                        Entries in Registries to be Sent to Principal Registrar.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">The registrar of 
                        marriages in each district shall forthwith register in a 
                        book to be kept in his office for such purpose, and to 
                        be called the Marriage Register Book, every certificate 
                        of marriage which shall be filed in his office, 
                        according to the Form D in Schedule 1; and every such 
                        entry shall be made in order of date from the beginning 
                        to the end of the book, and every entry so made shall be 
                        dated on the day on which it is so entered, and shall be 
                        signed by the registrar, and such book shall be indexed 
                        in such manner as is best suited for each reference 
                        thereto.&nbsp; Every such book shall be a record book, and 
                        the registrar shall at all reasonable times allow 
                        searches to be made therein, and shall give certified 
                        copies therefrom upon payment of the fee mentioned in 
                        Schedule 2.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Within ten days after 
                        the last day of each month, every registrar, other than 
                        the Principal Registrar, shall send to the Principal 
                        Registrar a certified copy of all entries made by him 
                        during the preceding month in the marriage register book 
                        of his district, and the Principal Registrar shall file 
                        the same in his office.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Section 40—Correction 
                        of Clerical Errors in Marriage Certificates.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Any clerical error in a 
                        certificate of marriage may, if discovered at the time 
                        of making the entry, be then corrected by the registrar 
                        or minister performing a marriage; but no other 
                        correction or alteration shall be made in any 
                        certificate except that any registrar, when authorised 
                        by the Minister responsible for the interior may correct 
                        any clerical error in any certificate of marriage filed 
                        in his office, upon production to him of the certificate 
                        delivered to the parties, and shall authenticate every 
                        such correction by his signature or by marking the same 
                        with his initials and the date of such correction.[As 
                        substituted by the Marriage (Amendment) Ordinance, 1956 
                        (No. 26 of 1956), s.11]</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Section 41—Evidence of 
                        Marriage.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Every certificate of 
                        marriage which shall have been filed in the office of 
                        the registrar of any district, or a copy thereof 
                        purporting to be signed and certified as a true copy by 
                        the registrar of such district for the time being, and 
                        every entry in a marriage register book or copy thereof 
                        certified as aforesaid and every copy of an extract of 
                        the records of the Principal Registrar relating to such 
                        marriage and certified by the Principal Registrar to be 
                        a true copy of such extract shall be admissible as 
                        evidence of the marriage to which it relates in any 
                        Court of Justice or before any person now or hereafter 
                        having by law or consent of parties authority to hear, 
                        receive, and examine evidence. (Amended by 34 of 1950, 
                        s.6.)</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">PART 5—INVALID 
                        MARRIAGES</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Section 42—Marriage 
                        with Deceased Wife's Sister or Niece Lawful.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">A marriage may be 
                        lawfully celebrated under this Ordinance between a man 
                        and the sister or niece of his deceased wife, but save 
                        as aforesaid, no marriage in the Gold Coast shall be 
                        valid, which if celebrated in England, would be null and 
                        void on the ground of kindred or affinity, or where 
                        either of the parties thereto at the time of the 
                        celebration of such marriage is married by native law or 
                        custom to any person other than the person with whom 
                        such marriage is had.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Invalid Marriages.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">A marriage shall be 
                        null and void if both parties knowingly and wilfully 
                        acquiesce in its celebration in any place other than the 
                        office of a registrar of marriages, or a licensed place 
                        of worship (except where authorised by the Principal 
                        Registrar's licence), or under a false name or names, or 
                        without the registrar's certificate of notice, or the 
                        marriage officers' certificates, or one such certificate 
                        when sufficient, or licence duly issued, or by a person 
                        not being recognised minister of some religious 
                        denomination or body, or a registrar of marriages.[As 
                        amended by the Marriage (Amendment) Ordinance, 1956 (No. 
                        26 of 1956), s.7]</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Saving in Favour of 
                        Validity.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">But no marriage shall 
                        after celebration be deemed invalid by reason that any 
                        provision of this Ordinance other than the foregoing has 
                        not been complied with. (Amended by 2 of 1909, s.13.)</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Section 43—Marriages 
                        Under Ordinance Valid.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">All marriages 
                        celebrated under this Ordinance shall be good and valid 
                        in law to all intents and purposes.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Section 44—Native 
                        Marriages, Effect of Ordinance as to.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Any person who is 
                        married under this Ordinance, or whose marriage before 
                        the commencement of this Ordinance is declared by this 
                        Ordinance to be valid, shall be incapable during the 
                        continuance of such marriage of contracting a valid 
                        marriage under any native law or custom, but save as 
                        aforesaid, nothing in this Ordinance contained shall 
                        affect the validity of any marriage contracted under or 
                        in accordance with any native law or custom or in any 
                        manner apply to marriages so contracted.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">PART 6—MARRIAGES 
                        ALREADY CELEBRATED</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Section 45—Certain 
                        Existing Marriages Validated.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Every marriage 
                        celebrated in the Gold Coast before the commencement of 
                        this Ordinance by any minister of any religious 
                        denomination or body, according to the rites in use by 
                        such religious denomination or body shall be, and shall 
                        be deemed to have been from the time of the celebration 
                        thereof, a legal and valid marriage: Provided that 
                        nothing herein contained shall legalise any marriage 
                        which has before the commencement of this Ordinance been 
                        declared invalid by any competent Court, nor any 
                        marriage, either party to which had at the time of its 
                        celebration a lawful wife or husband living, nor any 
                        marriage which was void by reason of kindred or affinity 
                        or fraud or incapacity to contract marriage, nor any 
                        marriage otherwise invalid, either party to which shall 
                        before the commencement of this Ordinance and in the 
                        lifetime of the other party thereto have intermarried 
                        with any other person.&nbsp; (Amended by 30 of 1935, s.2.)</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Section 46—Existing 
                        Registers of Marriages to be Transmitted to Principal 
                        Registrar.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Every minister of 
                        religion or other person in the Gold Coast who has in 
                        his custody or control any register, record, or paper 
                        purporting to be such of marriages heretofore celebrated 
                        in the Gold Coast, shall within six months after this 
                        Ordinance takes effect, deliver or transmit to the 
                        Principal Registrar the said register or official record 
                        or a copy thereof, omitting if desired any matter of a 
                        private nature, with a certificate appended thereto in 
                        the following form—</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">I. A.B., of [here 
                        describe place of abode and position] do certify that 
                        the annexed written pages contain the true record 
                        (excepting matters of a confidential nature) of the 
                        marriages heretofore celebrated in [here name church].</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Dated 
                        the&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; day of&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; , 
                        19&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; .</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">
                        &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (Signed) A.B. </span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Any register, record, 
                        paper, or copy thereof, delivered or transmitted to the 
                        Principal Registrar under the provisions of this 
                        section, or a copy thereof certified to be correct under 
                        the hand of the said Registrar, shall be admissible in 
                        evidence.&nbsp; (Amended by 2 of 1909, s. 14, and 30 of 1935, 
                        s.2.)</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Section 47—Certain 
                        Expenses to be Defrayed from General Revenue.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">The Minister 
                        responsible for the Interior may defray out of the 
                        general revenue of the Gold Coast all proper expenses 
                        connected with the transmission or delivery of the said 
                        registers or which may otherwise become necessary to be 
                        incurred in carrying out the provisions of this 
                        Ordinance. (Amended by 30 of 1935, s.2.)[As amended by 
                        the Marriage (Amendment) Ordinance, 1956 (No. 26 of 
                        1956), s.2]</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">PART 7—SUCCESSION TO 
                        INTESTATE'S PROPERTY</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Section 48—Effect of 
                        Marriage in Case of Natives.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">[Repealed by the 
                        Intestate Succession Law, 1985 (PNDCL 111),s.19(a)].</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Section 49—Legitimation 
                        of Children Born Before Marriage.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) Any child born 
                        before the intermarriage of his parents under this 
                        Ordinance and not procreated in adultery shall on such 
                        intermarriage be deemed the lawful issue of a marriage 
                        under this Ordinance, and shall be entitled to the same 
                        rights and privileges and his property shall in case of 
                        his intestacy be subject ot the same incidents as though 
                        his parents had been at the date of his birth married 
                        under this Ordinance.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) Adultery shall not 
                        be held to include the intercourse of a man married by 
                        native customary law with an unmarried woman.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">(3) This section shall 
                        apply to all children both of whose parents were living 
                        on the 15th day of February, 1909. (Added by 2 of 1909, 
                        s.16.)</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">PART 8—FEES</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Section 50—Fees.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">The fees specified in 
                        Schedule 2 shall be paid to the registrars for the 
                        several matters to which they are applicable, and shall 
                        be paid by them into the Accountant-General's 
                        Department.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Section 51—Fees may be 
                        Remitted on Ground of Poverty.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">The Minister 
                        responsible for the interior may, when he is satisfied 
                        of the poverty of the parties, reduce the amount of the 
                        said fees, or remit them altogether; and if they have 
                        been paid into the Accountant-General's Department, 
                        order their refund.[As amended by the Marriage 
                        (Amendment) Ordinance, 1956 (No. 26 of 1956), s.2]</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Section 52—Ministers 
                        may Receive Customary Fees.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">This Ordinance shall 
                        not preclude a minister from receiving the fees 
                        ordinarily paid to a minister of his denomination for 
                        the celebration of marriage.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">PART 9—FORMS</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Section 53—Forms.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">The forms contained in 
                        Schedule 1 may be used in the case to which they are 
                        applicable with such alterations as may be necessary.
                        </span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Section 53A—Repeals.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">The following 
                        Enactments are hreby repealed:</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">(1) The Marriage 
                        Ordinance (Amendment) Law, 1985 (PNDCL 115). [Repealed 
                        by the Marriage Ordinance (Amendment) Law, 1997 (PNDCL&nbsp; 
                        115), s.2].</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">(2) The Marriage 
                        Ordinance (Amendment) Act, 1997 (Act 533). [Repealed by 
                        the Marriage Ordinance (Amendment) Act, 2001 (Act 606), 
                        s.2].</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">SCHEDULES</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">SCHEDULE 1</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Forms</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">FORM A</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">(Section 14)</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">REGISTRAR'S 
                        CERTIFICATE.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Registrar's 
                        Certificate.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">I, 
                        ........................... registrar of marriages in 
                        the .............................................. 
                        district in the Gold Coast, do hereby certify that on 
                        the .................................................. 
                        day of ............................................ , 
                        notice was duly entered in the Marriage Notice Book of 
                        this district, of the marriage intended between the 
                        parties herein named and described, such notice being 
                        delivered under the hand of one of the parties, that is 
                        to say—</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;Name.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
                        Condition.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Occupation, rank or profession.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; 
                        Age.&nbsp; Consent.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Dwelling.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Length of 
                        residence.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">A. B.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">C.D.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Bachelor</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Spinster&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
                        Boatman</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">(as case may be.)</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Trader (as case may 
                        be). &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;19</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">(as case may be).</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">16 (as case may be). 
                        &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; E.F., the father (as case may be)</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">G.H., the mother (as 
                        case may be). &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; James Town, Accra (as case may 
                        be).&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Date of notice 
                        entered&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; , 19&nbsp; .</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Date of certificate 
                        given&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; , 19&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; .</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">No caveat has been 
                        entered against the issue of this certificate,&nbsp; or</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">A caveat was entered 
                        against the issue of this certificate on the day 
                        of&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; , 19&nbsp;&nbsp; , but was removed on the day 
                        of&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 19&nbsp; , by the Judge of the Divisional 
                        Court 
                        at&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
                        </span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Witness my hand 
                        this&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
                        &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;, 19&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; .</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">A.B., Registrar of 
                        Marriages,</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">District.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">NOTE.— This certificate 
                        will be void unless the marriage is solemnised on or 
                        before the&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; day 
                        of&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; , 19&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; .</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">(A.B.)</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">(Amended by 2 of 1909, 
                        s.17.)</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">FORM B</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">(Section 23)</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">SPECIAL LICENCE.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Special Licence.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">WHEREAS A.B. and C.D. 
                        desire to intermarry, and sufficient cause has been 
                        shown to me why the preliminaries required by the 
                        Marriage Ordinance should be dispensed with:</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">NOW, THEREFORE in 
                        pursuance of the said Ordinance, I do dispense with the 
                        giving of notice and the issue of the certificate 
                        thereby prescribed, and do hereby authorise any register 
                        of marriages, or recognised minister of some religious 
                        denomination or body, to celebrate marriage between the 
                        said A.B. and C.D., at (place of celebration), between 
                        the hours of eight o'clock in the forenoon and six 
                        o'clock in the afternoon, and within&nbsp;&nbsp; days from the 
                        date hereof.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Given under my hand 
                        this&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;day 
                        of&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; , 19&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; .</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">
                        (Signed)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; , 
                        Governor.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">FORM C.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">(Sections 33 and 37.)</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">(Amended by 30 of 1935, 
                        s.2.)</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">BOOK OF MARRIAGE 
                        CERTIFICATES.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Book of Marriage 
                        Certificates.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Gold Coast.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
                        &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Marriage Ordinance.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">
                        &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
                        , 19&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; .</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
                        Marriage celebrated in the&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
                        at&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;in the Gold Coast.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
                        CERTIFICATE OF MARRIAGE.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">No.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Date.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp; ,&nbsp; 19&nbsp;&nbsp; No.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; When 
                        married.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Names and surnames.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Full age 
                        or minor&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Condition.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Rank or profession&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
                        Residence at time of marriage.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Father’s name and&nbsp; 
                        Surname&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Occupation, rank, or profession of 
                        father.&nbsp; </span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Name of Husband</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">................... 
                        Name of Wife</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">..............</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Witnesses</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">..............</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">..............</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">
                        ..............&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
                        </span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Married 
                        at&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; by (or before) 
                        me&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A.B.,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
                        &nbsp;Minister (or Registrar)</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
                        as the case may be.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">This marriage&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; }&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
                        A.B.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; {In the&nbsp; }&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; E.F.&nbsp; </span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">was celebrated 
                        }&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; {presence}&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">between us&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; }&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
                        C.D.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; {of us&nbsp;&nbsp; }&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; G.H.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
                        &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Witnesses.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">FORM D</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">(Section 39)</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">MARRIAGE REGISTER BOOK</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">When married&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
                        Names and surnames&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Whether full age or 
                        minor&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Condition&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>
                        </p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Occupation&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>
                        </p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Residence&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Father's 
                        name and occupation&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Place of worship or 
                        Registrar's Office&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Minister or&nbsp; Registrar&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
                        </span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">
                        &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
                        &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Entered 
                        this&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; day of&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
                        19&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ,&nbsp; at the district registry of marriages 
                        at&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">(Signed) A.B.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
                        </span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Registrar.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">(Form D substituted by 
                        34 of 1950, s.9.)</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">FORM E</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">(Section 16)</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">NOTICE FOR BANNS</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">(By one party only)</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Notice for Banns (by 
                        One Party)</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">To&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Minister 
                        of&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Church (or Chapel) at&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
                        in the district of&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; and a Marriage Officer 
                        for such district.&nbsp; I&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; being a member of the 
                        congregation of the (insert name of religious 
                        denomination) Church (or Chapel) at&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; give you 
                        notice that a marriage is intended between me and the 
                        other party herein named and described and that I desire 
                        you to publish or cause to be published the banns of 
                        such marriage in the said Church (or Chapel) on the 
                        first three Sundays on which a service shall be held.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Name. Condition.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
                        Calling.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Age.&nbsp;&nbsp; Dwelling&nbsp;&nbsp; place.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
                        Consent, if any, by whom.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">A. B.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">C. D.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Bachelor 
                        (or widower) or married to C.D. by native customary law.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Spinster (or widow) or 
                        married to A.B. by native customary law. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
                        &nbsp;Trader</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">None&nbsp;&nbsp; 24</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">19&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Otu Street, 
                        Accra</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: Arial">Christiansborg&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
                        </span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">E. D. (father). </span>
                        </p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">And I give this notice 
                        with the assent of the other party herein named and 
                        described.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">And I solemnly declare 
                        that I believe there is no impediment of kindred or 
                        alliance or other lawful hindrance to the said marriage.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Witness may hand 
                        this&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; day 
                        of&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; , 19&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; .</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Signature</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">(Added by 2 of 1909, 
                        Schedule.)</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">FORM F</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">(Section 16)</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">NOTICE FOR BANNS</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Notice for Banns (by 
                        Both Parties).</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">(Where parties of same 
                        congregation give single notice.)</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">
                        To&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
                        Minister&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
                        of&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Church (or Chapel) 
                        at&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; in the district of&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
                        and a Marriage Officer for such district.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">
                        We&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; and&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
                        of&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; solemnly declare that each of us 
                        has for fifteen days previously to the giving of this 
                        notice resided at&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; aforesaid and 
                        is a member of the congregation of the&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (insert 
                        name of religious denomination Church (or Chapel) 
                        at&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; and we hereby give you notice 
                        that a marriage is intended between us and that we 
                        desire you to publish or cause to be published the banns 
                        of such marriage in the said Church (or Chapel) on the 
                        first three Sundays on which a service shall be held.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Name. Condition.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
                        Calling.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Age.&nbsp;&nbsp; Dwelling place.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
                        Consent, if any, by whom.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">E.F.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">G. H.&nbsp;&nbsp; Bachelor (or 
                        widower) or married to G. H. by native customary law.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Spinster (or widow) or 
                        married to E.F. by native customary law.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
                        Farmer</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">None&nbsp;&nbsp; 28</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">19&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Aburi</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Aburi&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">J. H. (father)&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>
                        </p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">And we solemnly declare 
                        that we believe there is no impediment of kindred or 
                        alliance or other lawful hindrance to the said marriage.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Witness our hands 
                        this&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; day of&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
                        , 19&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; .</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Signature</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">(Added by 2 of 1909, 
                        Schedule.)</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">FORM G</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">(Section 17)</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">AUTHORITY TO PUBLISH 
                        BANNS OF MARRIAGE</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Authority to Publish 
                        Banns</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">
                        To&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
                        of </span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">I hereby authorise and 
                        request you to publish the banns of marriage between the 
                        within-named&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; and&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; in the (insert name of 
                        religious denomination)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Church (or 
                        Chapel) at&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; on the first three 
                        Sundays on which a service shall be held.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Dated at&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
                        this&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; day of&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; , 19 
                        .&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Marriage Officer.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">FORM H</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">(Section 19)</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">(Added by 2 of 1909, 
                        Schedule)</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">ENDORSEMENT OF 
                        PUBLICATION OF BANNS.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Endorsement Publication 
                        of Banns.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">I the below-named&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
                        hereby&nbsp; certify that I did duly publish the banns of 
                        marriage between the within-named&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; and&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; on three 
                        Sundays, viz.:-</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">For the first time on 
                        the&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; , 19&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; , </span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">For the second time on 
                        the&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; , 19&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ,</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">For the third time on 
                        the&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; , 19&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ,</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Dated 
                        at&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; this&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; day 
                        of&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; , 19&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">(Signature of Marriage 
                        Officer or person authorised to publish banns.)</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">FORM I.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">(Section 21.)</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">(Added by 2 of 1909, 
                        Schedule.)</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">MARRIAGE OFFICER'S 
                        CERTIFICATE.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Marriage Officer's 
                        Certificate (where notice given by one Party).</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">(Where notice given by 
                        one party only.)</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">
                        I&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Minister 
                        of&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; in the district 
                        of&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; and a Marriage Officer for 
                        the said district hereby certify that on 
                        the&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; day of&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; , 
                        19&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; , notice was duly given of the 
                        intended marriage by banns between the parties herein 
                        named and described, such notice being delivered under 
                        the hand of&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; one of the parites, 
                        that is to say—</span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Name. Condition.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
                        Calling.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Age.&nbsp;&nbsp; Dwelling place.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
                        Consent, if any, by whom.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>
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                        <span style="font-family: Arial">A. B.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: Arial">C. D.&nbsp;&nbsp; Bachelor (or 
                        widower) or married to C.D. by native customary law.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Spinster (or widow) or 
                        married to A.B. by native customary law.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
                        Trader</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">None&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; 24</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">19</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Otu Street,</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Accra.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Christiansborg.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
                        </span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">E.D. (father).&nbsp; </span>
                        </p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">And I further certify 
                        that the banns of marriage have been duly published in 
                        the&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (insert name of religious 
                        denomination Church (or Chapel) at&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; on 
                        three Sundays, viz.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (insert 
                        dates) and that no caveat has been entered against the 
                        issue of this certificate; or</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">a caveat was entered 
                        against the issue of this certificate on 
                        the&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; day of&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; , 19&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; , 
                        but was removed on the&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; day 
                        of&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; , 19&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; , by the Judge of 
                        the Divisional Court at&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; .</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Witness my hand 
                        this&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; day of&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; , 19&nbsp;&nbsp; .</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Marriage Officer.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">FORM J.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">(Section 21.)</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">(Added by 2 of 1909, 
                        Schedule.)</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">MARRIAGE OFFICER'S 
                        CERTIFICATE.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Marriage Officer's 
                        Certificate (Where Joint Notice Given.)</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">(Where joint notice 
                        given by both parites.)</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">
                        I&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Minister 
                        of&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Church (or Chapel) in the 
                        district of&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; and a Marriage Officer for 
                        the said district, hereby certify that on the&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; day 
                        of&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; , 19&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; , notice was duly 
                        given by the parites herein named and described of their 
                        intended marriage by banns, such parties having solemnly 
                        declared that each of them had for fifteen days 
                        previously to the giving of the said notice resided at (Aburi) 
                        and was a member of the congregation of 
                        the&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (here insert name of religious 
                        denomination) church (or Chapel) at (Aburi).</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Name. Condition.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
                        Calling.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Age.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Dwelling place.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
                        Consent , if any by whom given.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">E. F.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">G H.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Bachelor (or 
                        widower) or married to G.H. by native customary law.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Spinster (or widow) or 
                        married to E. F. by native customary law.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
                        Trader.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">None&nbsp;&nbsp; 28</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">19&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Aburi</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Aburi&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">J. H. (father).&nbsp; </span>
                        </p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">And I further certify 
                        that the banns of marriage have been duly published in 
                        the&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Church (or Chapel) at (Aburi) 
                        aforesaid on three Sundays, 
                        viz.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (insert dates)&nbsp; and 
                        that no caveat has been entered against the issue of 
                        this certificate;</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">or</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">a caveat was entered 
                        against the issue of this certificate on 
                        the&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; day of&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; , 19&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
                        , but was removed on the&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; day of&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
                        , 19&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; , by the Judge of the Divisional Court 
                        at&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; .</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Witness my hand 
                        this&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; day of&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; , 19&nbsp;&nbsp; .</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Marriage Officer</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">SCHEDULE 2</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">(Sections 39 and 50.)</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">FEES</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Filing every notice of 
                        marriage&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
                        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ¢50,000.00&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">On issue of each 
                        certificate or certified copy of it&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; .. 
                        &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ¢50,000.00&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Certifying an 
                        extract&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
                        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; .. ¢50,000.00&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Special Licence with 
                        marriage ceremony&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
                        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ¢500,000.00&nbsp; </span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Special Licence without 
                        marriage ceremony&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
                        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ¢400.000.00&nbsp; </span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">Marriage 
                        ceremony&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
                        ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
                        ¢50,000.00&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">[As substituted by the 
                        Marriage Ordinance (Amendment) Act, 2001 (Act 606), s.1]</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">FOOTNOTES</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">*Repealed by No. 30 of 
                        1935, s. 4.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">+Repealed by No. 30 of 
                        1935, s. 5.</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><b>
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">As amended by</span></b></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">MARRIAGE (AMENDMENT) 
                        ORDINANCE, 1954 (CAP 127A).2</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">MARRIAGE (AMENDMENT) 
                        ORDINANCE, 1956 (NO. 26 OF 1956).3</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT, 
                        1971 (ACT 359)4</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">INTESTATE SUCCESSION 
                        LAW, 1985 (PNDCL 111).5</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT, 
                        1993 (ACT 462).</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">THE CHILDREN'S ACT, 
                        1998 (ACT 560).</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                        <span style="font-family: Arial">THE MARRIAGE ORDINANCE 
                        (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2001 (ACT 606).6</span></p>
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