Registrars pow
to levy fees.

Registrars not liable
to serve on Juries.

Notice of every intend-
ed mariage to be
given to the Registrar.

And filed and copied
by him.

Fees on leaving such
notice.

Notice-book to be open
for inspection.

Certificate for marriage
to be issued.

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4. The said Registrars shall be and they are hereby empowered
   to levy and receive the several fees authorised to be collected by them
   under and by virtue of this Act, to be applied in manner hereinafter
   provided.

5. No Registrar appointed under the provisions of this Act
   shall be compellable to serve on any Jury or Inquest, or to fill any
   parochial or corporate office whatsoever.

II. NOTICE OF INTENDED MARRIAGES.

6. In every case of marriage intended to be solemnized in the
   Colony of New Zealand, one of the persons intending marriage
   shall, under his or her hand, give notice in the form in the schedule
   A, to this Act annexed, to the Registrar of the District within
   which one of the persons shall have dwelt for not less than three
   days, and shall therein truly state the age name and surname, and
   the calling or profession, and condition of each of the persons in-
   tending marriage, the dwelling place of each of them, and the
   time that each of them has dwelt in such district, and the church
   building or place in which such marriage is intended to be
   solemnized. Provided always that if the persons intending mar-
   riage dwell in the districts of different Registrars, the like notice
   shall be given to the Registrar of each district.

7. The Registrar shall keep all such notices with the records of
   his office, and shall also immediately on receiving any such notice,
   enter a true copy thereof fairly into a book to be called the "Mar-
   riage Notice Book." Provided always that before the copy of any
   such notice shall be so entered in the Notice Book, the Registrar
   shall require the person giving such notice to make a solemn declar-
   ation to the truth of the several particulars set forth in such notice.

8. There shall be paid to the Registrar by the person leaving
   the said notice of Marriage with the Registrar, a fee of two
   shillings and sixpence.

9. Every such "Marriage Notice Book" shall be open to all
   persons desiring to inspect the same, between the hours of ten in the
   morning and four in the afternoon of every day, except Sunday,
   Christmas Day, Good Friday, and the Queen's Birth-day, and for
   every such inspection there shall be paid to the Registrar a fee of
   one shilling.

10. It shall be lawful for the Registrar to whom such notice
    shall have been given as aforesaid, immediately upon receipt of such
    notice as aforesaid, to issue a certificate in the form Schedule B to
    this Act annexed, in the cases following that is to say: first when it
    shall appear from the notice and solemn declaration herein men-
    tioned that both the persons intending marriage are of full age, or
    if a person be under age that such person is a widow or widower. Se-
    condly where the person being under age and not a widow or widower,
    the consent in writing of the parent or guardian as herein re-
    quired to the marriage of such person shall appear upon the notice,
    which consent shall be signed by the parent or guardian either before