Section 29. All marriages solemnized in India f~om and after the commellceinei~t Marriages .pith

PART IV. ==> picture [4 x 8] intentionally omitted <== A s to the Registralion of iVavj-iages `in` Iudia. 29. All marriages solemnized in India f~om and after the commellceinei~t Marriages .pith CPT- of t h ? ~[between pepsons both or one of whom shdl profes~ ] tain exceptions registered as herein. `to` be the Christian Religion, except marriages solemnized' under after prescribed. the said Statute `14` and 15 Vic., cap. 40, and the said Act V of 1852, shall `132` registered in tlie manner hereinafter prescpibed : Provided that no omission or defect in such shall invalidProviso. ate any mamiage not otherwise invalid. `30.` Every marriage solemnized by a Clergyman of the Church `ctl'` EngRcgktrntion of mar-[land shall be registered by the Clerg~mn solemnizing ][the ] riages solemnized by CIe~gvmen of the same in the Register of Marriages of the Station or District, Church of England. in which the inarriage shdl be soleiiinized, according to the forin contained in the Scheclule C to this Act annexed. `31.` Every Clergyman of the Cliucoli of Englni~d shall send four qmes Quarterly Returns to in every year Retunls in duplicate, authenticated by tie sigArchdeaconry. ilature ~f sucli Clurgymaq, of the erltl-ies in the Register of IIasriages sole~iinized at or in ally Station or District at ~vhic!i such Cle~gyInan shdl have any spiritual cllargg to the Regi8l;l.a~ of the Ar,cLLcleaconry to yhicl~ he shall be sul~ject or nritliin t,hc limits of wliicll such Station or District .shall be sitVuacted, Sucll quarterly Returfis shall colltaill ail tlle elltries of marriages contained in the mid ltcgistcr fi'9m the first day of January t o 1,hc tliirLy-first di~y of March, from the first day of April to the thirtieth day of Jmlc J' ACP No. V OF 1865.' 23 June, from the first day of July to the thirtieth day of ~ e ~ t e m b e r , and from the first day of October to the thirty-fist day of December, of each year respectively, and shall be transmitted by such Clergyman within two weeks frok the expiration of caoh of tho ql~a~rtors dlove specified. The said Registrar upon receiving tlie same shall transmit one duplicate to the Secretary to the Local '~overnmerrt. 32.[Every marriage solemnized by a Clergyman of the Church of Rome ] Registrationand R ~ -[shall be registered by the person and according to the form ] tU"s marriages directed in that behalf by the Roman Catholic Bishop of the emnized by Clergymen of the Church of Rome. Diocese or Vicariate ih which such marriage shall be solemnieed ; and such person shall forward quarterly to the Secretary to the Local Government, Returns of the entries of all marriages registered by him during the three months next preceding. 33. Every mamiage solemiiized by a Clergyman of the Churcll of Scotland ~ ~ i ~and Re- t ~[sl~i~11 ] ~ t be registered by the Clergyman aolcmiiieiiig the i ~ ~ Sam+: turns emnizdby of marriages Clergymen of in a Register of Marriages to be kept by him for the Station the Church of Scotlaud, or District in which the marriage shall be solein~lized, in the form prescribed in the thirtieth Section for marriages solemnized by Clergymen of the Church of England, and such Clergyman shall forward quarterly- to- the Sec~etary to Government, through the Senior Chaplain of the Church of Scotland in the territory subject to the Local Governinelit, Returns si,niilar to those prescribed ill tlie thirty-first Section for Clergyme11 of the Church of Eiigland of all marriages soleinnized by him. 34. After the solem~iization of ally marriage under this Act by any person who has received episcopal ordinatioii, but who is Blarriages solemuizd by certain persons to be not a Clergymail of the Church of England noy of the entered iu a Register ~~~k also in a cerChurch of Rome, or by ally Minister of Religion licensed tificate. under this Act to solenlllize marriages, tlie person solemnizing the same shall forthmitli register such niarriage in duplicate-that is to say, in a Marriage Rcgistcr Book to be kept by hi111 for tlmt pLIrpose, accorcling to the form coiitaincd in the Schedule D to this Act annexed, ancl aclso in a certificate attachcd to the Marriage 1Ecgister 13001~ as a counterfoil. `35.`[Tlie entry of such marriage ][i11 ][both the certificate and Marriage ] F::d: cctrics tc? be ltcgistcr 1300li shall bc sigiled by the person by whoin the ~iglled alld attested. said marriage has beell solemnized and also by the persons' married, and shall bc attestcd by two ~~'eclil~le x~rit~l~esses who were ])resent at the solemnizatiort of thc ~uarriage, and eTe7.y sucl: entry shall be inade in OI'C~CC f.0111 ' ACT ,No. V OF `1865.` 23 from. the beginning to the end of the book, and the number of the certificate shall correspond with that of the entry in the Marriage Register Book. & The person mbmnizing the said rna,rria!ge-shall forthwikseparate the certificate from the Marriage Register Book, and transmit Such certificate $ be forwarded `to` Marrl-[it ][within one month from the time of the solemnization ] age Registrar, and transmittad to Govof such marriage to the Marriage Registrar of the District in ernment. which the marriage was solemnized, or, if there be more Mamiage Registrars than one, to the Senior Marriage He- gistrar, who shall cause such certificate to be copied into a book to be kept by him for that purpose, and shall transmit all the certificates which he shall have received during the month, with such number and signature or initials added thereto as are hereinafter required, to the Secretary to the Local Government, together with the certificates from his o m Mamiage Register Book which he shall transmit under the twelfth Section of the said Statute 14 arid 15 Vic., cap. 40, but distinct therefrom. `37.` Such copies shall be entered in order from the beginning to the end of the said 'book, and shall bear both the number of the Copies of certificates `to` be entered and[certificate as copied, and also a number to be entered by the- ] numbered. Marriage Registrar, indicating the number of the entry of the said copy in the said book, according to the ordey in which each certificate was received by the s,aid Narriage Registrar. `38.` The Narriage Registrar shall also add such last mentioned number Registrar t o a d d of the entry of the copy in the book, to the certificate, with number of entry of copy `to` the certificate. and lGs sigilature or initial - s, and shall at the -endaof every moiitl~ send same to Government. transmit the same to the Secretary to the Local Government. 39.[The p e ~ o n soleninizing any such marriage as is provideci for in Part ] V of this Act, shall keel3 safely the said Xegister Boo1r until of Custody Hegisier and nook disl~osal the same shall be filled, or `if` he shall leave tlie District in lnarringes under Part V of this which he soleniiiized tlie marriage before the said book is A C ~ . iillecl, shall make o ~ e r the saine to the person who shall succeeci to his duties in the said District, 117110 shall keep safely the saine, and sliall make therein the entries by this Act required to be 111acie in respect of ally iiiarriage solem~izecl by hini within the said District ; the persoil having the control of tlie book at the tinic wheii it shall be filled, sliall sciid tlie smne to tlie Marriage Registrar of tlrc Slistrict, or, if' tllere bc lnorc BIarriage Bjegistrars tllan one, to the Senior Marriage Regis- trar, ACT 50, V OF `1865.` 1 trar, who shall send it to the Secr&ary to the Load Government to be kept; by him with the records of his Office.