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Given under my hand, and issued under the Public Seal of the said Province of New Munster, at Government House, Auckland, this thirty-first day of October, in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine.

G. GREY.

By His Excellency’s command,
A. D. Campbell,
Colonial Secretary.

God Save the Queen!

Civil Secretary’s Office,
30th October, 1849.

His Excellency the Governor-in-Chief directs the publication of the following copy of an Ordinance about to be introduced into the General Legislative Council.

By His Excellency’s command,
A. D. Campbell,
Civil Secretary.

MARRIAGE AMENDMENT ORDINANCE.

In the Thirteenth Year of the Reign of Her Majesty VICTORIA.

SESSION VICTORIA, No.

ANALYSIS.

Title.

Preamble.

1. Superintendent of Wesleyan Missions and Moderator of the Presbyteries of the Church of Scotland and of the Free Church of Scotland, and Officiating Ministers authorised to grant Licenses.
2. Superintendent of Wesleyan Mission and Moderator of the Presbyteries of the Church of Scotland and of the Free Church of Scotland empowered to authorise others to grant such Licenses.
3. If there be no such Moderator, Governor may grant such authority.
4. Oath, Declaration, &c. to be made by party applying for Marriage License.
5. Penalty for granting Licenses without requiring such oath.
6. Penalty for making false Oath.
7. Marriage by License to be as valid as by Banns.
8. Any Minister of a Congregation of 40 years may require to be entered as an Officiating Minister.
9. Power to Governor to cause a Minority to be entered as an Officiating Minister.
10. Such entries may be cancelled.
11. This Ordinance to be deemed to be part of the Marriage Ordinance.

An Ordinance to amend an Ordinance for Regulating Marriages in the Colony of New Zealand.

Passed the __ day of ___ 184_ (Preamble.)

WHEREAS, by an Ordinance enacted by the Governor of New Zealand, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, Session 8, No. V., intituled “An Ordinance for Regulating Marriages in the Colony of New Zealand,” it is amongst other things enacted, that Licenses to marry, without publication of Banns may be issued according to the Ecclesiastical Law of the United Church of England and Ireland and the Roman Catholic Church, by the proper authorities according to such laws, for Marriages to be celebrated agreeably to the forms and usages of the said Churches, provided that no such License for Marriage shall be issued in any case in which any person whose consent to any marriage would have been required shall not have previously given his or her consent. And whereas it is expedient that, subject to such provision as aforesaid, Licenses for Marriages to be celebrated according to the forms and usages of the Wesleyan Methodist Society, of the Church of Scotland, and of the Free Church of Scotland respectively without publication of Banns, should be authorised to be granted in manner hereinafter mentioned: Be it therefore enacted by the Governor in Chief of New Zealand, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:—

I. It shall be lawful for the Superintendent of Wesleyan Mission and Moderator of the Presbyteries of the Church of Scotland and of the Free Church of Scotland for the time being respectively, and for any Officiating Minister to grant Licenses for Marriages without publication of Banns, to be celebrated agreeably to the forms and usages of the Wesleyan Methodist Society, of the Church of Scotland or of the Free Church of Scotland respectively, or of the respective Religious Societies of which they may be Ministers.

II. It shall be lawful for any such Superintendent or Moderator, if he shall deem it expedient, to do so, by any instrument in writing under his hand, authorise any fit person or persons to grant such Licenses as aforesaid.

III. If there be no such Moderator, Governor may grant such authority.

IV. Every person or persons authorised to grant any License for Marriage, previously to the issuing thereof, shall require the party applying for the same to make oath, and subscribe a declaration to the effect hereinafter mentioned.

V. Penalty for granting Licenses without requiring such oath.

VI. Penalty for making false Oath.

VII. Every Marriage solemnized by License shall be as valid to all intents and purposes as if the same had been solemnized after due publication of Banns.

VIII. Any Minister of a Congregation of forty years standing may require to be entered as an Officiating Minister, and the Governor may cause such entry to be made.

IX. Power to Governor to cause a Minority to be entered as an Officiating Minister.

X. Such entries may be cancelled.

XI. This Ordinance to be deemed to be part of the Marriage Ordinance.