Section 28. Registration of marriages solemnized by Clergymen of Church of England

PART IV REGISTRATION OF MARRIAGES SOLEMNIZED BY MINISTERS OF RELIGION — 27. Marriages when to be registered. All marriages hereafter solemnized in[2] [India] between persons one or both of whom professes or profess the Christian religion, except marriages solemnized under Part V or Part VI of this Act, shall be registered[3] in manner hereinafter prescribed. 28. Registration of marriages solemnized by Clergymen of Church of England .—Every Clergyman of the Church of England shall keep a register of marriages and shall register therein, according to the tabular form set forth in the Third Schedule hereto annexed, every marriage which he solemnizes under this Act. — 29. Quarterly returns to Archdeaconry. Every Clergyman of the Church of England shall send four times in every year returns induplicate, authenticated by his signature, of the entries in the register of marriages solemnized at any place where he has any spiritual charge, to the Registrar of the Archdeaconry to which he is subject, or within the limits of which such place is situate. Contents of returns .—Such quarterly returns shall contain all the entries of marriages contained in the said register from the first day of January to the thirty-first day of March, from the first day of April to the thirtieth day of June, from the first day of July to the thirtieth day of September, and from the first day of October to the thirty-first day of December, of each year, respectively, and shall be sent by such Clergyman within two weeks from the expiration of each of the quarters above specified. The said Registrar upon receiving the said returns shall send one copy thereof to the[4] [Registrar General of Births, Deaths and Marriages]. 1. Subs. by the A. O. 1950, for "Native". 2. Subs. by Act 3 of 1951, s. 3 and Sch., for "a Part A State or a Part C State".