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The several Ecclesiastical Authorities as aforesaid of
the respective Religious Bodies, shall send in to the said
Registrar-General, or other Officer as aforesaid, a correct list of
such Officiating Ministers in the month of December in every
year.
List of Ministers to be
sent in in the month of
December. -
The Registrar-General or other Officer as aforesaid,
shall file all such certificates and lists and keep them with the
records of his office, and shall also forthwith enter the names
sent to him as hereinbefore mentioned, in a book to be furnished
him by the Government. and to be called the "List of Officiating
Ministers," and shall from time to time alter and correct the said
list as occasion shall require, and shall in the month of January
in every year cause a copy of such list to be published in the
New Zealand Government Gazette. And in case of any additional
names of Ministers being sent in to him during any part of the
year in the manner aforesaid, the Registrar-General or other Of-
ficer as aforesaid, shall cause such names to be published forth-
with in the New Zealand Government Gazette, and the persons
so gazetted shall be deemed Officiating Ministers for the pur-
poses of this Act. Provided always that in case of notice
being sent to the Registrar-General or other Officer as aforesaid, of
the suspension or deprivation of any Minister whose name may
have been entered upon the list of Officiating Ministers, the
Registrar-General or other Officer as aforesaid, shall thereupon
cause a notification to be published in the New Zealand Go-
vernment Gazette, that the name of such Minister is withdrawn from
the list of Officiating Ministers, and such person shall from the date
of such publication, cease to be an Officiating Minister in the
meaning of this Act.
Registrar-General to
file certificates, enter
names of Officiating
Ministers in books and
publish lists.
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS.
- Every marriage heretofore and prior to the 16th day of
September 1847, bond fide celebrated in New Zealand by any
Clergyman, Minister, or other person, whether the same was so
celebrated in any church, chapel, or building set apart for public
worship, or other building or place, and every marriage hertofore
since the 16th September 1847 bona fide celebrated by any Clergy-
man, Minister, or other person, in accordance with the formalities
prescribed by the said recited Ordinance No. 7, of Ses. 8. shall be
deemed as valid as if such marriage had been performed under
the provisions of this Act. Provided always that nothing con-
tained in this Act shall extend, or be construed to extend, to
render valid any marriage, in respect to which a lawful impedi-
ment may have existed at the time of such marriage.
Marriage heretofore
celebrated valid.
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NZ Gazette 1854, No 35
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