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Every Officiating Minister, or Registrar as the Minister to forward
case may be, before whom any marriage is solemnized copies of marriage re-
or has taken place, shall, in the months of July, October, gisters to Registrar
January, and April respectively, make and transmit to the General quarterly.
Registrar-General of Births Deaths and Marriages, or other
officer to be appointed by the Governor in that behalf, a true
copy, certified by such officiating Minister or Registrar
under his hand, of all the entries of marriages in the
Register Books kept by him since the last return, and if
there shall be no marriage entered therein since the last re-
turn, he shall certify the fact under his hand and shall keep
the said Marriage Register Books safely. And every
officiating Minister or Registrar who shall refuse or neglect to
make and transmit such return or certificate within the several
times herein specified, shall be liable for every such offence
to forfeita sum not exceeding ten pounds to be recovered in a
summary way. -
If any persons shall knowingly and wilfully intermarry Marriages unduly so-
on or after the said first day of January 1855 without certificate lemnized with the
from the Registrar, or in the absence of an Officiating knowledge of both
Minister or Registrar when the presence of an Officiating persons to be void.
Minister or Registrar as aforesaid is necessary under this Act,
the marriage of such persons shall be null and void. -
If any valid marriage shall after the said first day On marriage of Minors
of January 1855 be procured by a party to such marriage to without consentoffend-
be solemnized between persons one or both of whom shall be ing party to forfeit
under the age of twenty-one years, not being a widower or widow, property acquired by
contrary to the provisions of this Act, by means of such party such marriage.
falsely swearing or declaring to any matter or matters, to which
such party is hereinbefore required personally to declare,
such party wilfully and knowingly so declaring, then and in such
case it shall be lawful for Her Majesty's Attorney-General, by
information in the Supreme Court, at the relation of a parent or
guardian of the minor, whose consent has not been given to such
marriage, to sue for a forfeiture of all the estate, right,
title, and interest in any property which hath accrued
or shall accrue to the party so offending, by force
of such marriage; and such Court shall have power
in such suit to declare such forfeiture, and thereupon to
order and direct that all such estate, right, title, and interest
in all property as shall then have accrued or shall thereafter
accrue, to such offending party by force of such marriage,
shall be secured under the direction of such Court for the benefit
of the innocent party, or of the issue of the marriage or of any
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NZ Gazette 1854, No 35
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Sections 29-31 regarding marriage register returns, void marriages, and minors.
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🏛️ Governance & Central Administration4 November 1854
Legislation, Marriage register returns, Void marriages, Minors, Property forfeiture, Attorney-General