Ecclesiastical authorities to send in names of ministers, and certify suspension or deprivation of any ministers. 1880, No. 21, sec. 18

List of ministers to be gazetted. Ibid, sec. 14

Addition of names.

Cancellation of nameH. Ibid, seo. 15

Evidence of the right of Officiating Ministers to act. Ibid, sec. 16 ; 1891, No. 16, sec. 8

Notice of every intended marriage to be given. 1880. No. 21, sec. 17

13. The person having ecclesiastical authority over the several religious bodies as aforesaid shall, upon the suspension or deprivation of any minister whose name shall have been sent in to the Registrar-General in manner hereinbefore mentioned, forthwith certify such suspension or deprivation to the Registrar-General, who shall forthwith make a minute of such suspension or deprivation in the list of Officiating Ministers hereinafter mentioned, and no such person shall be deemed an Officiating Minister until his name shall have been again sent in to the Registrar-General in manner hereinbefore mentioned. 14. The Registrar-General shall file ail 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 kept by him for the purpose, and 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 gazetted. 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 shall cause such names to be entered upon the aforesaid list and gazetted, and the persons so gazetted shall be deemed Officiating Ministers for the purposes of this Act. 15. In case of notice being sent to the Registrar-General of the suspension or deprivation of any minister whose name may have been entered upon the list of Officiating Ministers, the RegistrarGeneral shall thereupon erase such name from the aforesaid list, and cause a notification to be gazetted that the name of sucn minister is withdrawn from the list of Officiating Ministers, and such person shall from the date of such publication cease to be an Officiating Minister within the meaning of this Act. 16. The entry of the name of any Officiating Minister heretofore made or hereafter to be made in the book called the " List of Officiating Ministers," and the gazetting of the name of such minister, shall be deemed and taken to be conclusive evidence of the right of such Officiating Minister to act as such from the date of the certificate of the persons or person having ecclesiastical authority, or of the office-bearers, or of the ministers or adult members aforesaid respectively, as the case may be, sent in to the Registrar-General in respect of such Officiating Minister upon which such entry and publication have been or shall be made. Notices. 17. In every case of marriage intended to be solemnised in New Zealand, one of the persons intending marriage shall, under his or her hand, give notice, in the form in the Schedule D to this Act, to the Registrar of the district within which one of the persons shall have dwelt for not less than three days, and shall therein truly state the age, name, and surname, and the calling or profession and. condition, of each of the persons intending marriage, the dwelling-place of each of them, and the time that each of them

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