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Legislative Enactments MARRIAGES (GENERAL) Marginal Notes 1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Marriage Registration Ordinance. 2. Appointment of Registrar-General and his duties. 3. Appointment of Assistant Registrars-General and their duties.[3,34 of 1946] 4. District Registrars. 5. Establishment of registration divisions. 6. Appointment [11, 34 of 1946] [2, 38 of 2006] 7. Power to make rules. [ 5, 34 of 1946] 8. Residence, office, and station of registrar, 9. Attendance of registrar at his office, 10. Registration of place of worship for solemnization of marriage. 11. Registration of such place if thinly populated district. 12. Cancellation or substitution of registration of building. 13. Rectification of errors. [ 6, 34 of 1946] 14. Publication of lists of registrars and registered buildings. [7, 34 of 1946] 15. Prohibited age of marriage [ 2,18 of 1995] 16. Prohibited decrees of relationship. 17. Marriage of persons within prohibited degrees of relationship an offence. 18. Second marriage without legal dissolution of first marriage invalid. 19. Dissolution of marriage. 20. Suits to compel marriage prohibited. 21. Section - 21 22. Who may give consent to marriage of a minor. [2,12 of 1997] 23. Preliminaries to be observed prior to a marriage. 24. Form of notice and declaration [2, 24 of 2013] 25. Publication of notice. 26. Issue of certificate. [ 2,49 of 1944] 27. Issue of licence [ 5, Law 41 of 1975] [3, 22 of 2013] 28. Issue of certificates and solemnization of marriages upon alteration of divisions. [ 4,49 of 1944 ] [11,34 of 1946] 29. Forbidding of issue of certificate. 30. Caveat. 31. Proceedings on marriage being forbidden or caveat entered. 32. Facilities for marriages in Great Britain and Northern Ireland between British subjects resident in Great Britain and Northern Ireland and British subjects resident in Sri Lanka and vice versa. 33. Where may [ 5,49 of 1944] 34. Solemnization of Marriage by minister. [ 49, 11 of 1963] [2, 11 of 2001] [4, 22 of 2013] 35. Solemnization of marriage by registrar. 35A. Copy of registration entry to be issued free. [5, Law 41 of 1975] 36. Addition of religious ceremony to marriage solemnized by registrar. [8,34 of 1946] 37. Transmission to Registrar-General of duplicates of entries, substitution of original and duplicate entries and reconstruction of original and duplicate entries. 38. Solemnization of marriage by minister or registrar under special licence. [2,15 of 1940] [5, 22 of 2013] 39. New notice required after three months. 40. Death-bed marriages. 41. Entry made by registrar in marriage register trie best evidence of marriage. 42. Proof of certain matters not necessary to validity of registered marriage. 43. Mode of supplying omission and correcting error in registration. 44. Correction of errors in registers.[11,34 of 1946] 45. Penalty on making false declaration or giving false notice. 46. Circumstances in which a marriage will be null and void. 47. Solemnization of marriage by means of a false document. 48. Settlements and agreements in regard to such marriage void. 49. Books to be kept by the General, District Registrar, c. 50. Forms. 51. Search of registers and issue of certified copies or extracts. 52. Third copy certified copy or extract to be evidence [ 5, 41 of 1975] 53. Surrender of registrar ceasing to hold office.[11, 34 of 1946] 54. Destruction of documents.[ 3 15 of 1940] 55. Penalty for no delivery.[ 11,34 of 1946] 56. Penalty for losing or injuring a document. [11, 34 of 1946] 57. Penalty for destruction of documents and for giving false certificates. [ 4, 15 of 1940] 58. Penalty for omission to register.[ 11, 34 of 1946] 59. Offences by minister. 60. Undue solemnization of marriage and issue of certificate. 61. Notices, informations, declarations, certificates, c, how transmitted, 62. Fees payable. [ 49, 11 of 1963] [7, 22 of 2013] 63. Proceedings in courts to be exempt from stamp duty. 64. Interpretation.