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any Registrar if any lawful -impediment be shewn to the satisfaction of such Registrar to the issue thereof, nor if the issue-of such certificate shall have been forbidden in manner hereinafter mentioned by any person or persons authorised in that behalf as hereinafter provided. " 12. Before any certificate as aforesaid shall be granted by any such Registrar, one of the persons intending marriage shall appear personally before such Registrar, and shall make his or her solemn declaration that he or she believes that there is not any impediment of kindred ox alliance, or other lawful hindrance to the said marriage, and that one of the persons has for the space of three days immediately before the day' of making such declaration, had his or her place of abode within the district wherein such marriage is to be solemnized. And where either of the persons, not being a Widow or Widower, shall be under the age of twenty-one years, such declaration shall further state that the consent of the person or persons whose consent to such marriage is by law required has been obtained thereto, or that there is no person resident in the Colony having authority to give such consent, as the case may be. " 13. Every such certificate as aforesaid issued by any such Registrar, shall be full authority for any Officiating Minister to celebrate any marriage, when both the persons intending to contract such marriage flwell in the same district. But if those persons dwell in different districts, certificates from the Registrars of both districts shall be required.. Provide^ always that no such certificate or certificates shall oblige any Officiating Minister -to solemnize any marriage. >- " 14. Whenever a marriage shall -not have been celebrated within three calendar months after the notice herein required tb 4 be- given shall have been given to the Registrar, sijch ? notice and any certificate which may ha^eyfe^janr granted thereupon shall be utterly void." » * * * " 16. The father, if resident within the Colony, of any person under twenty -one years of age, such person not being a Widower or Widow, or if the father shall be dead, the guardian or guardians of the person of the party so under age, lawfully appointed, or one of them ; and in case there shall be no guardian or guardians, or in case the father shall not be resii dent within the colony, then the mother of j such person if resident in the colony, and if there shall be no mother resident within the colony, then the guardian or guardians (if any) of the person appointed by the Supreme Court, or one of them, shall nave authority to give consent to the marriage of such person, and such consent is hereby required for the marriage of such person so under age, unless there shall be no person within the colony authorised to give such consent. " 17. In case the father or fathers of the persons so under age as aforesaid, or the guardian or guardians, mother or mothers, or any person whose consent is made necessary as aforesaid, shall be ' non compos mentis ;' or shall unreasonably or from undue motives, refuse or withhold his or her or their consent to a proper marriage, then it shall be lawful for any person desirous of marrying in any of the | above-mentioned cases, to apply by petition to a Judge of the Supreme Court in a summary way, and in case the marriage proposed shall, upon examination, appear to be proper, any such Judge shall judicially declare the same to be so, and such judicial declaration shall be deemed and taken to be as good and effectual to all intents and purposes as if the father, guardian, or guardians, or mother of the person so petitioning, had consented to such marriage. " 18. Any person whose consent is required as aforesaid may forbid the issue of the RegisThe names of the under-mentioned Ministers New Zealand Government Gazette, as officiating

Name. Residence. Religious Body. The Rev. Thomas Burns, Dunedin, Free Church of Scotland. „ William Will, Taieri, Do. „ William Bannerman, Clutha, Do. „ John Albert Fenton, Dunedin, United Church, of England and Ireland. Robt. Chapman, Registrar- General, Province of Otago.