New Zealand Gazette – 1854 – No. 35

Page 225

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  1. Every person who shall knowingly and wilfully make
    any false affirmation or declaration for the purpose of procuring
    any such certificate as aforesaid, shall be deemed to be guilty
    of a misdemeanor.

  2. Every person who shall forbid the issue of the Regis-
    trar's certificate by falsely representing himself or herself to be
    a person whose consent to such marriage is required by law,
    knowing such representation to be false, shall be deemed guilty
    of a misdemeanour.

  3. If any person shall from and after the first day of
    January 1855 falsely pretend to be an Officiating Minister,
    and shall solemnize matrimony, any such person knowingly and
    wilfully so offending, and being lawfully convicted thereof, shall
    be deemed and adjudged to be guilty of felony, and shall be
    sentenced to penal servitude for a term of seven years.

  4. Every person who on or after the said first day of Janu-
    ary, 1855, shall knowingly and wilfully solemnize matrimony in
    any other place than the church, office, or place specified in the
    certificate required by this Act, and every person who shall
    knowingly and wilfully solemnize matrimony on or after the said
    first day of January 1855, without a certificate from the
    Registrar as required by this Act, shall be deemed and adjudged
    to be guilty of a misdemeanour.

  5. Every Registrar who shall knowingly and wilfully
    issue any certificate for marriage after the expiration of three
    calendar months after the notice shall have been entered by him
    as aforesaid, or any certificate for marriage except the provi-
    sions of this Act be first complied with, or any certificate the
    issue of which shall have been forbidden as aforesaid, by any
    person authorised to forbid the issue of such certificate, or who
    shall knowingly and wilfully register any Marriage herein declar-
    ed to be null and void, and every Registrar who shall knowingly
    and wilfully solemnize in his office or elsewhere, any marriage
    herein declared to be null and void, shall be deemed and adjudg-
    ed to be guilty of felony, and shall be sentenced to penal servi-
    tude for a term not exceeding seven years.

  6. Any Officiating Minister or Registrar who shall know-
    ingly or wilfully, without the consent of parents or guardians,
    solemnize or be present at any marriage wherein one or both of
    the persons has not, or have not, attained the full age of twenty-one
    years, shall for every such offence forfeit and pay a sum not
    exceeding one hundred pounds, to be recovered by ac
    tion in the Supreme Court.

Making false affirma-
tion or declaration a
misdemeanour.

The making of a false
representation a misde-
meanour.

Any person solemniz-
ing matrimony falsely
pretending to be an
Officiating Minister a
felony.

Solemnizing matrimo-
ny otherwise than ac-
cording to this Act a
misdemeanour

Registrar acting ille-
gally in certain cases
to be guilty of felony

Persons solemnizing
marriage of Minors
without consent liable
to a penalty.



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🏛️ Continuation of Penalties for False Declarations and Illegal Marriage Solemnization (continued from previous page)

🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
Legislation, Marriage, False declaration, Misdemeanour, Felony, Registrar, Officiating Minister, Minors