Section 40. Transmission of certificates of certain marriages to Secretaiy of 'State for India

40. Transmission of certificates of certain marriages to Secretaiy of 'State for India. - 1 . Colrection of errors, - 4 2. Searches nlay be made and copies of certificates given. 40. The Secret~ry to tbe J+ocal, Government `!ha&` at the, end[of ] every Trmmiwion Gels. qiarter in each year, select from thk oertifi$tes of marriages riages tificates to of Secretary of forwarded to him during suclz quarter, the ceiSificates of State for India. the marriages of which the Governor-General of India in Council may desire that evidence shall be tran&itted to England, and forward the same certificate8 signed by him to the Secretary of State for India, for the purpose of being delivered, to the Registrar ~ e ~ e r a l of Births, Deaths, and Marriages. 41.[Any ][person charged wikh the duty of registeying any ][marriage, ][who ] shall discover any error to have been m m i t 8 t ~ d in the form cbrrection of or substance of any such entry, may, within' one mouth next aftey the disco;ery of such error, ih tlle presence of ,the persons mmried, or., in case of their death or abscncc, in thc prcscnce of two oLher cgedible wil- nesses who shall respectively attest the szume, cqiTect the erroneous entry according to klle trwth of the case, `131` entry in the masgin without any alteration of the oiliginal entry, ahd shdl sign the m a8iaginal entry, and add thereunto the day of the month and year ~ h such correction shall m be wde, and such person shall make the like margdal entry, attested in the like manner, in the certificate thereof; and in oass such cei-tificaie shall lmxe been &heady transmitted to the Secretary to the Local Government, suqh person shall make and transmit in like manner a separate gertificate of the original erroneous entry, and of the marginal correction therein m*ade.