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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 72

Regulations under Part XVIII of the Cook Islands Act, 1915, relating to Marriages.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this nineteenth day of June, 1916.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred on him by the Cook Islands Act, 1915 (hereinafter referred to as “the said Act”), His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby make the following regulations for the purposes of Part XVIII of the said Act, relating to marriages in the Cook Islands.

REGULATIONS.

1. ALL marriages must be solemnized between the hours of eight in the morning and four in the afternoon.

2. At the time of the solemnization of a marriage the doors of the building must be kept open to allow of the admission of the public.

3. The two witnesses to a marriage must be of an age to thoroughly understand what they are doing. They should be adults and able to sign their names.

4. The notice required under section 513 of the said Act shall be in the form No. 1 of the First Schedule hereto, and the person giving the notice of the intended marriage shall make a solemn declaration of the truth of the several particulars set forth in such notice, and also that he or she believes that there is not any impediment of kindred or alliance, or other lawful hindrance to the marriage; and if the man shall be under the age of twenty-one years, or the woman shall be under the age of nineteen years, the person giving notice of the intended marriage shall further declare that the consent required under section 519 of the said Act has been obtained.

5. The consent required under section 519 of the said Act shall be in the form No. 2 in the First Schedule hereto, or to the like effect, and shall be signed by the person giving such consent before any Marriage Officer.

6. Every Marriage Officer by whom a marriage is solemnized shall forthwith record in a book to be kept for that purpose, and called the Marriage Register, the several particulars relating to such marriage, according to the form No. 3 in the First Schedule hereto. He shall make a duplicate of such record in the said Marriage Register for transmission to the Registrar of the High Court at Rarotonga or at Niue, as the case may be, as provided by section 517 of the said Act.

7. The record in the said Marriage Register, and the duplicate thereof, shall be signed by the persons married, by the witnesses to the marriage, and by the Marriage Officer. Such duplicate record shall be forthwith transmitted or delivered to the Registrar of the High Court at Rarotonga or at Niue, as the case may be.

8. Every Marriage Officer by whom any marriage shall be solemnized shall, without fee, deliver to one of the parties to the marriage a certified copy of the record in the Marriage Register.

9. The Marriage Registers shall be safely kept by the Marriage Officers in whose custody they are placed, and shall be deemed to be the property of the Crown. Upon the death, dismissal, transfer, or resignation of any Marriage Officer the custody of such Marriage Registers shall pass to his successor in office.

10. Every Marriage Officer is hereby empowered to receive and take the several fees specified in the Second Schedule hereto; and all fees so received shall be forthwith transmitted or paid to the Cook Islands Account or the Niue Island Account, as the case may be.

FIRST SCHEDULE.—KAPI MUA.
[Form No. 1.

NOTICE OF INTENDED MARRIAGE.—AKAKITEANGA KA AKAPOIPO.

To (Kia) , a Marriage Officer of the Island of (ko te Rima Rave t:i akataongaia i te rave akaipoiponga ki runga i te enua ko)

I HEREBY give you notice that a marriage is intended to be had, within three calendar months from the date hereof, between me and the other party herein named and described, that is to say:—