whose consent to such marriage is required by law, knowing such representation to be false, shall be liable to imprisonment w T ith or without hard labour for any term not exceeding two years, or to a penalty not exceeding fifty pounds. 54. Every person who shall knowingly and wilfully solemnise any marriage in any other place than the church, office, or place specified in the certificate required by this Act, and every person who shall knowingly and wilfully solemnise any marriage without a certificate from the Eegistrar as required by this Act, shall be liable to imprisonment with or without hard labour for any term not exceeding two years, or to a penalty not exceeding fifty pounds. 55. Every person who shall falsely pretend to be an Officiating Minister, and shall solemnise any marriage, knowingly and wilfully so offending, shall be liable to imprisonment with hard labour for any term not exceeding seven years. 56. Every Registrar who shall knowingly and wilfully issue any certificate for marriage after the expiration of three calendar months after the notice shall have been entered by him as aforesaid, or any certificate for marriage except the provisions of this Act be first complied with, or any certificate the issue of which shall have been forbidden as aforesaid by any person authorised to forbid the issue of such certificate, or who shall knowingly and wilfully register any marriage herein declared to be null and void, and every Registrar who shall knowingly and wilfully solemnise, in his office or elsewhere, any marriage herein declared to be null and void, shall be liable to imprisonment with hard labour for any term not exceeding seven years. 57. Every Officiating Minister and Registrar who shall knowingly or wilfully, without the consent of parents or guardians, solemnise any marriage wherein one or both of the persons has not or have not attained the full age of twenty-one years, shall for every such offence forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding one hundred pounds, to be recovered by action in the Supreme Court. 58. Every person who shall wilfully make or cause to be made, for the purpose of being inserted in any marriage register-book, any false statement touching any of the particulars required to be known and registered under the provisions of any Act for regulating marriages in the colony which shall at the time be in force, shall be liable to imprisonment with or without hard labour for any term not exceeding two years, or to a penalty not exceeding fifty pounds. 59. Every action or prosecution under this Act shall be commenced within the space of three years after the offence was committed.

Solemnising marriage otherwise tban according to this Act. 1880, No. 21, sec. 48

Solemnising marriage falsely pretending to be an Officiating Minister. Ibid, sec. 49

Registrar acting illegally in certain cases. Ibid, sec. 50

Penalty (or solemnising marriage of minors without consent. Ibid, sec. 51

Making false statements. Ibid, sec. 52

Limitation of prosecutions. Ibid, sec. 53

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Marriage A els Compilation.