8. It shall be lawful for the Registrar-General from time to time to make, amend, alter, and revoke regulations (not being repugnant to the provisions of any Act lawfully in force for regulating marriages in the colony) for the general management of the registry offices, and the preparation and transmission of all returns required from Registrars and Officiating Ministers respectively, and for the more effectually carrying out the provisions of any or all Marriage Acts in force in the colony ; and such regulations, after being approved by the Governor, shall be obeyed accordingly. Officiating Ministers. 9. Any minister of religion whose name shall have been sent in to the Registrar-General by the persons or person within the colony in whom ecclesiastical authority shall for the time being be vested, or reputed to be vested, over any of the religious bodies enumerated in the Schedule C to this Act shall, subject to the conditions hereinafter mentioned, be an Officiating Minister within the meaning of this Act. The name of every minister of religion shall be certified under the hand or hands of the person or persons aforesaid, and shall be entered and published as hereinafter provided. In default of any person having ecclesiastical authority as aforesaid, the name of such minister may be certified under the hands of two duly recognised office-bearers in the religious body in respect of which such certificate is granted. 10. (1.) Any minister of religion not connected with any of the bodies enumerated in Schedule C to this Act, who shall furnish to the Registrar-General a certificate, signed by the recognised head in New Zealand of the religious body to which he ministers, or by two duly recognised ministers of such religious body, or by ten adult members thereof, who shall append to their signatures their description as being such members, declaring that such minister is their Officiating Minister, shall be entitled to have his name inserted in the list of Officiating Ministers within the meaning of this Act. (2.) The signatures and descriptions of the aforesaid ten adult members to any such certificate shall be attested by some person, who shall verify the signatures to the certificate as the genuine signatures of the persons whose they purport to be, by a solemn declaration made under " The Justices of the Peace Act, 1882," signed by such person, and appended to such certificate. 11. The several ecclesiastical authorities as aforesaid of the respective religious bodies shall send in to the Registrar-General, in the month of December in every year, a correct list of their officiating ministers. Every certificate under the hands of any office-bearers or ministers or adult members respectively, as aforesaid, shall be sent in to the Registrar-General anew in the month of December in every year. 12. Every list of Officiating Ministers, and certificate under the hands of office-bearers or ministers or adult members, shall continue in force from the day on which the same is sent to the Regis-trar-General until the gazetting of the official list of ministers after ",he succeeding December, and no longer.

Registrar-General may make regulations. 1880, No. 21, sec. 8

Ministers of prevailing religious booties, Ibid, seo. 9

to be certified by ecclesiastical authorities.

In certain cases certificates may be given by officebearers.

Ministers of religious bodies not enumerated in Schedule. 1891, No. 10, sec. 2

Correct lisis to be sent in every year. 1880, No. 21, sec. 11 1891, No. 16, sec. 2

Lists to be in force for one year only. 1880, No. 21, sec. 12; 1891, No. 16, sec. 2

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