When, the person being under age ; and not a widow or widower, the consent in writing of the parent or guardian required to the marriage of such minor shall appear upon the notice, or be delivered to the Registrar in a separate writing, which consent shall be signed by the parent or guardian, either before the Registrar at his office, or before a Justice of the Peace, or a solicitor of the Supreme Court, or an Officiating Minister within the meaning of this Act, and be attested by such Registrar, Justice, solicitor, or Officiating Minister. Every certificate of marriage issued under this Act shall be in the form Schedule E to this Act. 27. When a declaration shall be made under the twenty-fourth section that, to the best of the declarant's knowledge and belief, there is no person within the colony having authority by law to give consent to the marriage, the Registrar shall not issue a certificate of marriage in any case in which one of the parties is a minor until the expiration of fourteen days after the receipt by him of the notice. 28. Every certificate as aforesaid issued by any Registrar shall be full authority for any Officiating Minister to solemnise any marriage when both the persons intending to contract such marriage dwell in the same district; but if those persons dwell in different districts, certificates from the Registrars of both districts shall be required. No such certificate or certificates shall oblige any Officiating Minister to solemnise any marriage. 29. Whenever a marriage shall not have been .solemnised within three calendar months after the notice herein required to be given shall have been given to the Registrar, such notice and any certificate which may have been granted thereupon shall be utterly void. 30. Every Registrar shall, on or within seven days after the thirty-first day of March, the thirtieth June, the thirtieth September, and the thirty-first December respectively, in every year, make a return to the Registrar-General of every certificate granted by such Registrar since his last return, and of the particulars stated in every notice received by him. Solemnisation of Marriages. 31. The Registrar's certificate or certificates, as the case may be, shall immediately before the solemnisation of any marriage, be delivered, by one of the persons about to be married, to the Officiating Minister or Registrar solemnising such marriage, as is hereinafter provided. 32. Every such marriage shall be solemnised in the place stated in the notice of such marriage, between the persons described in the notice, according to such form and ceremony as they may see fit to adopt; and Every such marriage shall be solemnised with open doors, between the hours of eight in the morning and four in the afternoon, in the presence of an Officiating Minister or other person duly authorised by this Act, and in the presence of two or more witnesses.

Cases where issue £° e e r «^° ato *° be isso, No. 21, sec. Certificate to ob^eTofficTaUng 1 Ministers. ibid,sec.2B Notice, certificate, m c ont g h o a °on°y three ibia.sec. 29 Registrars to make returns. Ibld, sec ' 3o Certificate to be Q e^v *™ d to M . TK; 7 & ™\i " Place and time for 0 be S eo. 32

Certificate to authorise, but not oblige, Officiating Ministers. Ibid, sec. 28

Notice, certificate, &c, good for three months only. Ibid, sec. 29

Registrars to make quarterly returns. Ibid, sec. 30

Certificate to be delivered to Officiating Minister Ibid, seo. 31

Place and time for marriages to be solemnised. Ibid, sec. 32

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Marriage Acts Compilation.