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Powers of Registrar-General.
(1) The Registrar-General shall not perform any function or act in respect of 16. marriages otherwise than in accordance with the express provisions of this Act.
(2) The Registrar-General may celebrate a marriage at any place within Saint Christopher and Nevis that he or she is satisfied is a fit and proper place for such celebration.
(Substituted by Act 7 of 1987) Appointment of offices.
17. | Gender Based violence- Violence Against Women | Child marriage | Saint Kitts and Nevis | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698939009049.pdf | https://lawcommission.gov.kn/wp-content/documents/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis-2009/Ch-12_09-Marriage-Act.pdf |
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(1) The Minister may appoint any building or buildings to be the office or offices of the Registrar-General, of the Magistrate, and of the Registrars for the LAWS OF SAINT CHRISTOPHER AND NEVIS Revision Date: 31 Dec 2002 Marriage Act CAP.
12.09 11 purpose of this Act, and on notice thereof being published in the Gazette such place or places shall be such office or offices for the purposes of this Act. | Gender Based violence- Violence Against Women | Child marriage | Saint Kitts and Nevis | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698939009049.pdf | https://lawcommission.gov.kn/wp-content/documents/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis-2009/Ch-12_09-Marriage-Act.pdf |
(2) There may be more than one such office in any one district: provided that the Attorney-General or his or her representative may at any time cancel any appointment made under this section.
(Amended by Act 6 of 1976) Registration of buildings in use at commencement of Act.
18. | Gender Based violence- Violence Against Women | Child marriage | Saint Kitts and Nevis | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698939009049.pdf | https://lawcommission.gov.kn/wp-content/documents/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis-2009/Ch-12_09-Marriage-Act.pdf |
(1) The head of every denomination of the Christian religion in Saint Christopher and Nevis shall, within one month after the coming into operation of this Act, make out and send to the Registrar-General a list of all buildings exclusively used as places of public Christian worship belonging to the denomination of which he or she is head, wherein banns of marriage have been usually published, and the Registrar-General shall register the same in a book to be kept for that purpose at his or her office, and shall make out and cause to be published in the Gazette a list of all such buildings, and shall state in such list the district within which each building so registered is situated, and a copy of such list or a copy of the Gazette containing the same shall be sent to every marriage officer by the Registrar-General. | Gender Based violence- Violence Against Women | Child marriage | Saint Kitts and Nevis | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698939009049.pdf | https://lawcommission.gov.kn/wp-content/documents/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis-2009/Ch-12_09-Marriage-Act.pdf |
(2) Where it is desired to register a building belonging to a denomination which has no head in Saint Christopher and Nevis and which has been exclusively used as a place of public Christian worship belonging to such denomination and wherein banns of marriage have been usually published, the person in charge of such building shall do, as regards such building, what is, by subsection (1) required to be done by the head of a denomination, and the Registrar-General shall deal with the same in the manner provided by the said subsection. | Gender Based violence- Violence Against Women | Child marriage | Saint Kitts and Nevis | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698939009049.pdf | https://lawcommission.gov.kn/wp-content/documents/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis-2009/Ch-12_09-Marriage-Act.pdf |
Registration of buildings at any time. | Gender Based violence- Violence Against Women | Child marriage | Saint Kitts and Nevis | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698939009049.pdf | https://lawcommission.gov.kn/wp-content/documents/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis-2009/Ch-12_09-Marriage-Act.pdf |
(1) Any proprietor or trustee or any other person who has sole control of a 19. separate building used as a place of Christian worship may apply to the Registrar- General in order that such building may be registered for the publication of banns, and in such case shall deliver or send to the Registrar-General a certificate, signed by not less than five householders resident within the district, that such building has been and is intended to be used as a usual place of public religious worship, and that they are desirous that such place should be registered as aforesaid, which certificate shall be countersigned by the proprietor or trustee or other person making the application. | Gender Based violence- Violence Against Women | Child marriage | Saint Kitts and Nevis | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698939009049.pdf | https://lawcommission.gov.kn/wp-content/documents/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis-2009/Ch-12_09-Marriage-Act.pdf |
(2) On receipt of such certificate, and on sufficient cause being shown to him or her, the Registrar-General shall register such building in the book in which buildings used for the publication of banns are registered, and the Registrar-General shall endorse on such certificate the date of the registry, and shall keep the same with the other records of his or her office, and shall give a certificate of such registry under his or her hand on stout paper to the proprietor or trustee or other person by whom the certificate is countersigned, and shall give public notice of the registration of such building by advertisement in the Gazette. | Gender Based violence- Violence Against Women | Child marriage | Saint Kitts and Nevis | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698939009049.pdf | https://lawcommission.gov.kn/wp-content/documents/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis-2009/Ch-12_09-Marriage-Act.pdf |
(3) For every such entry, certificate and publication, the Registrar-General shall receive at the time of delivery to him or her of the application to register the sum of twenty-five dollars.
(Amended by Act 5 of 1967) 12 CAP.
12.09 Marriage Act LAWS OF SAINT CHRISTOPHER AND NEVIS Revision Date: 31 Dec 2002 Separate building.
20. | Gender Based violence- Violence Against Women | Child marriage | Saint Kitts and Nevis | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698939009049.pdf | https://lawcommission.gov.kn/wp-content/documents/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis-2009/Ch-12_09-Marriage-Act.pdf |
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Any building which has been and is intended to be used exclusively for public religious worship shall be taken to be a separate building for the purpose of being registered under section 19, notwithstanding the same is under the same roof with any other building or forms a part only of a building.
Use of building as school, etc. | Gender Based violence- Violence Against Women | Child marriage | Saint Kitts and Nevis | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698939009049.pdf | https://lawcommission.gov.kn/wp-content/documents/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis-2009/Ch-12_09-Marriage-Act.pdf |
Use of building as school, etc.
The use of any building for the purposes of a school or the holding of any 21. entertainment therein for any object in connection therewith while religious worship is not going on therein shall not prevent such building being registered for the publication of banns.
Cancellation of registry.
22. | Gender Based violence- Violence Against Women | Child marriage | Saint Kitts and Nevis | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698939009049.pdf | https://lawcommission.gov.kn/wp-content/documents/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis-2009/Ch-12_09-Marriage-Act.pdf |
(1) If at any time subsequent to the registration of any building, it is made to appear to the satisfaction of the Registrar-General that such building has been disused for the public religious worship of a congregation on whose behalf it was registered as aforesaid, the Registrar-General shall cause the registration thereof to be cancelled: Provided that if it is proved to the satisfaction of the Registrar-General that the same congregation use instead thereof some other such building for the purpose of public religious worship, the Registrar-General may substitute and register such new place of worship instead of the disused building. | Gender Based violence- Violence Against Women | Child marriage | Saint Kitts and Nevis | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698939009049.pdf | https://lawcommission.gov.kn/wp-content/documents/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis-2009/Ch-12_09-Marriage-Act.pdf |
(2) Every application for cancelling the registration of any such building, or for such substitution and registration of a substituted building, shall be made to the Registrar-Ge neral, and such cancellation or substitution when made and the date thereof shall be entered in the book provided for the registration of such building, and shall be certified and published in manner herein-before provided in the case of the original registration of the disused building. | Gender Based violence- Violence Against Women | Child marriage | Saint Kitts and Nevis | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698939009049.pdf | https://lawcommission.gov.kn/wp-content/documents/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis-2009/Ch-12_09-Marriage-Act.pdf |
(3) For every such substitution the Registrar-General shall receive, at the time of the delivery of the certificate, from the party requiring the substitution, the sum of twenty-five dollars.
(Amended by Act 5 of 1967) (4) After any such cancellation or substitution has been made by the Registrar- General, it shall not be lawful to publish banns in such disused building, unless the same is again registered in the manner hereinbefore provided.
Rebuilding or repair of registered building.
23. | Gender Based violence- Violence Against Women | Child marriage | Saint Kitts and Nevis | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698939009049.pdf | https://lawcommission.gov.kn/wp-content/documents/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis-2009/Ch-12_09-Marriage-Act.pdf |
In any case in which any registered building is being rebuilt or under repair, it shall be lawful for the Registrar-General on application in writing made to him or her for that purpose to order and direct that banns of marriage may be published in any church or other building in the same district, which he or she by order in writing directs, until the registered building is again opened for the performance of divine service, and during all such period the said church or building shall, for all purposes relating to the publication of banns of marriage, be deemed and taken to be the registered building so being rebuilt or under repair as aforesaid. | Gender Based violence- Violence Against Women | Child marriage | Saint Kitts and Nevis | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698939009049.pdf | https://lawcommission.gov.kn/wp-content/documents/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis-2009/Ch-12_09-Marriage-Act.pdf |
Notice to be placed in building.
In some conspicuous place at the main entrance or one of the main entrances 24. of every registered building, a notice in the words following shall be placed: “Banns may be published in this building or church (as the case may be).” LAWS OF SAINT CHRISTOPHER AND NEVIS Revision Date: 31 Dec 2002 Marriage Act CAP.
12.09 13 Consent required for use of registered building 25. | Gender Based violence- Violence Against Women | Child marriage | Saint Kitts and Nevis | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698939009049.pdf | https://lawcommission.gov.kn/wp-content/documents/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis-2009/Ch-12_09-Marriage-Act.pdf |
No banns shall be published in any registered building without the consent of the minister or other person having the charge and control thereof, or of the head of the denomination to which such minister belongs, where he or she is by law empowered to give such consent.
PART III RESTRICTIONS ON MARRIAGE Persons who may not intermarry.
Prohibited degrees. | Gender Based violence- Violence Against Women | Child marriage | Saint Kitts and Nevis | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698939009049.pdf | https://lawcommission.gov.kn/wp-content/documents/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis-2009/Ch-12_09-Marriage-Act.pdf |
Intermarriage between the persons hereinafter mentioned is hereby prohibited, 26. namely— (a) in the case of persons related by blood between— (i) ascendants and descendants namely, parents and children upwards and downwards in infinitum; (ii) brothers and sisters, or step-brothers and step-sisters; (iii) uncles and their nieces, that is, their brothers’ or sisters’ children or grandchildren and descendants, or aunts and their nephews, that is, their brothers’ or sisters’ sons or grandsons or their descendants, in both classes of cases in infinitum; (b) in the case of persons related by affinity between— (i) a husband and any kinswoman or kindred of his deceased wife or the wife and any kinsman or kindred of her deceased husband, related to such husband or wife in the hereinafter stated degrees, namely, between any person and his daughter-in-law, that is his son’s widow or his son’s or daughter’s son’s widow and so downward any widow of any of his descendants, or any wife and her son-in-law, that is, the husband of her deceased daughter, or the husband of her son’s or daughter’s daughter and so downward the husband of any of her descendants; (Amended by Act 5 of 1967) (ii) any man and his step-daughter, that is the daughter of a former marriage of his wife, or of any of his said wife’s descendants, or any woman and her stepson, that is, the son of a former marriage of her deceased husband, or any of her said husband’s descendants; (iii) any man and his wife’s niece or the widow of his nephew, that is, the widow of his brother’s or sister’s son or the widow of any of his brother’s or sister’s descendants, or any widow and her husband’s nephew or the widower of her brother’s or sister’s daughter, or the husband of any of her brother’s or sister’s grandchildren or descendants; (c) provided always that any man may hereafter marry the sister of his deceased wife. | Gender Based violence- Violence Against Women | Child marriage | Saint Kitts and Nevis | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698939009049.pdf | https://lawcommission.gov.kn/wp-content/documents/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis-2009/Ch-12_09-Marriage-Act.pdf |
14 CAP.
12.09 Marriage Act LAWS OF SAINT CHRISTOPHER AND NEVIS Revision Date: 31 Dec 2002 Marriages within prohibited degrees void.
27.
Any marriage solemnised or celebrated between persons forbidden to intermarry shall be null and void to all intents and purposes whatsoever.
Restriction in case of minority.
28. | Gender Based violence- Violence Against Women | Child marriage | Saint Kitts and Nevis | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698939009049.pdf | https://lawcommission.gov.kn/wp-content/documents/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis-2009/Ch-12_09-Marriage-Act.pdf |
Restriction in case of minority.
28.
(1) Where either of the parties, not being a widower or widow is under the age of eighteen years, no marriage shall take place between them until the consent of the persons or person required by this Act has been first obtained. | Gender Based violence- Violence Against Women | Child marriage | Saint Kitts and Nevis | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698939009049.pdf | https://lawcommission.gov.kn/wp-content/documents/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis-2009/Ch-12_09-Marriage-Act.pdf |
(Amended by Act 7 of 1987) (2) The consent required to the marriage of an infant under this section shall, in the case of a marriage intended to be solemnised on the granting of a licence by the Attorney-General or in the case of a marriage intended to be solemnised after the publication of banns, be that of the persons or person mentioned in the Second Schedule: Provided that— (a) if the marriage officer is satisfied that the consent of any person whose consent is so required cannot be obtained by reason of absence or inaccessibility or by reason of his or her being under any disability, the necessity for the consent of that person shall be dispensed with, if there is any other person whose consent is also required; and if the consent of no other person is required, the High Court may, on application being made, consent to the marriage, and the consent of the Court so given shall have the same effect as if it had been given by the person whose consent cannot be obtained; (b) if any person whose consent is required refuses his or her consent, the High Court may, on application being made, consent to the marriage, and the consent of the Court so given shall have the same effect as if it had been given by the person whose consent is so refused. | Gender Based violence- Violence Against Women | Child marriage | Saint Kitts and Nevis | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698939009049.pdf | https://lawcommission.gov.kn/wp-content/documents/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis-2009/Ch-12_09-Marriage-Act.pdf |
(3) A marriage solemnised between persons either of whom is under the age of sixteen shall be void: Provided however that the Attorney-General or his or her representative may, in his discretion, if, for serious reasons, he or she considers it to be in the interest of the intending spouses so to do, grant a licence to marry to any person under the age of sixteen but over the age of fifteen; and the exercise of such discretion by the Attorney-General or his or her representative shall not be inquired into by any Court provided all the necessary consents to such marriage have been previously obtained by the parties thereto. | Gender Based violence- Violence Against Women | Child marriage | Saint Kitts and Nevis | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698939009049.pdf | https://lawcommission.gov.kn/wp-content/documents/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis-2009/Ch-12_09-Marriage-Act.pdf |
(Inserted by Act 5 of 1967) PART IV PRELIMINARIES TO MARRIAGE Authority for solemnisation or celebration.
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Except in the cases mentioned in Part VIII, no marriage shall be solemnised or celebrated unless there is produced to the marriage officer solemnising or celebrating the same, a certificate or certificates, as the case may be, in the form or to the effect LAWS OF SAINT CHRISTOPHER AND NEVIS Revision Date: 31 Dec 2002 Marriage Act CAP. | Gender Based violence- Violence Against Women | Child marriage | Saint Kitts and Nevis | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698939009049.pdf | https://lawcommission.gov.kn/wp-content/documents/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis-2009/Ch-12_09-Marriage-Act.pdf |
12.09 15 set out in form “D” in the First Schedule of the due publication of the banns within the preceding three months, or the Attorney-General or his or her representative’s licence which is still in force or a certificate or certificates from the Registrar-General or a Magistrate which is or are still in force: Provided that where a marriage is solemnised by a marriage officer officiating in the registered building in which banns of such marriage have within the aforesaid period been duly published, or celebrated at the office of the Registrar-General or Magistrate where any notice relating to such marriage has been duly given, and is still in force, it shall not be necessary to issue a certificate of the publication in such registered place or of the notice given in such office. | Gender Based violence- Violence Against Women | Child marriage | Saint Kitts and Nevis | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698939009049.pdf | https://lawcommission.gov.kn/wp-content/documents/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis-2009/Ch-12_09-Marriage-Act.pdf |
Banns of Marriage.
Publication of banns.
(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, any minister of the Christian religion 30. ordained or otherwise set apart to the ministry of Christian religion, according to the usage of the persuasion to which he or she may belong, if appointed as a marriage officer (but not otherwise) shall himself or herself or by some one officiating under his or her control publish banns of marriage between persons desirous of being joined together in matrimony. | Gender Based violence- Violence Against Women | Child marriage | Saint Kitts and Nevis | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698939009049.pdf | https://lawcommission.gov.kn/wp-content/documents/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis-2009/Ch-12_09-Marriage-Act.pdf |
(2) Such publication shall be made in an audible manner some time during public divine service on a Saturday or Sunday, whichever day is the day on which the principal act of worship of such congregation takes place, in the face of the congregation before whom and in the registered building in which such minister officiates and in the district in which both of the parties to be married dwell, and shall be in the words as nearly as may be in Form E in the First Schedule and shall contain the Christian and other name and surname and place of abode of each of the said parties, and shall be published on three such days within a period not exceeding three months preceding the solemnisation of the marriage. | Gender Based violence- Violence Against Women | Child marriage | Saint Kitts and Nevis | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698939009049.pdf | https://lawcommission.gov.kn/wp-content/documents/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis-2009/Ch-12_09-Marriage-Act.pdf |
(Amended by Act 7 of 1987) (3) If the parties to be married dwell in different districts or places whether within or without Saint Christopher and Nevis the banns shall be published in the place, district or parish (both within and without Saint Christopher and Nevis) in which each party dwells, and the manner of publication of the banns within Saint Christopher and Nevis shall be in accordance with the provisions of subsection (2). | Gender Based violence- Violence Against Women | Child marriage | Saint Kitts and Nevis | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698939009049.pdf | https://lawcommission.gov.kn/wp-content/documents/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis-2009/Ch-12_09-Marriage-Act.pdf |
(4) If one or both of the parties dwell in any district in which there is no registered building used for public Christian worship belonging to the denomination to which he or she belongs then a notice to the Magistrate of the district, in which either or both parties dwell, shall be given in accordance with the provisions of section 42, and shall be in substitution for publication of such banns in respect of such of the parties to be married as dwell in such district, and the certificate of the Registrar-General or the Magistrate issued under section 45 shall be accepted as sufficient evidence of such notification in all respects in respect of such party or parties. | Gender Based violence- Violence Against Women | Child marriage | Saint Kitts and Nevis | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698939009049.pdf | https://lawcommission.gov.kn/wp-content/documents/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis-2009/Ch-12_09-Marriage-Act.pdf |
Notification before banns.
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No marriage officer shall be obliged to publish banns between any person whomsoever, unless the persons to be married, two days at the least before the time required for the first publication of such banns respectively, deliver, or cause to be delivered to such marriage officer, a notice of their true Christian and other names 16 CAP. | Gender Based violence- Violence Against Women | Child marriage | Saint Kitts and Nevis | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698939009049.pdf | https://lawcommission.gov.kn/wp-content/documents/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis-2009/Ch-12_09-Marriage-Act.pdf |
12.09 Marriage Act LAWS OF SAINT CHRISTOPHER AND NEVIS Revision Date: 31 Dec 2002 and surnames, their respective ages, rank, profession or occupation, and a description of their place or respective places of abode in such district or place as aforesaid, and of the time during which they have dwelt in such place or places, and state whether they or one, and if one only which of them, have or has been married before, and such notice shall further contain a statement signed by both parties to the effect that they know of no lawful impediment to their marriage with each other. | Gender Based violence- Violence Against Women | Child marriage | Saint Kitts and Nevis | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698939009049.pdf | https://lawcommission.gov.kn/wp-content/documents/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis-2009/Ch-12_09-Marriage-Act.pdf |
Publication when void.
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(1) In all cases where any person, whose consent to a marriage is by this Act required, forbids such marriage and gives notice thereof before it is solemnised to the minister publishing the banns for such marriage the publication of such banns shall, subject nevertheless to the provisions of this Act, be void unless the persons so objecting afterwards withdraws his or her objection, in which case the publication shall hold good. | Gender Based violence- Violence Against Women | Child marriage | Saint Kitts and Nevis | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698939009049.pdf | https://lawcommission.gov.kn/wp-content/documents/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis-2009/Ch-12_09-Marriage-Act.pdf |
(2) In all cases where three calendar months from the last publication of banns have elapsed without the marriage to which such banns relate having been solemnised, the publication of such banns shall be void.
(3) In either of the said cases before the parties can be married by banns, it shall be necessary to re-publish banns anew, in manner and form aforesaid, as if no banns had ever been published between them.
Certificate of publication of banns. | Gender Based violence- Violence Against Women | Child marriage | Saint Kitts and Nevis | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698939009049.pdf | https://lawcommission.gov.kn/wp-content/documents/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis-2009/Ch-12_09-Marriage-Act.pdf |
Certificate of publication of banns.
(1) The officiating minister at any registered building where banns have been 33. duly published as aforesaid shall, unless such publication be void, on the request of both or either of the parties whose banns have been so published, give to the party requiring the same a certificate of the banns having been duly published in such building.
(2) For every such certificate the officiating minister shall be entitled to demand and receive a fee of five dollars. | Gender Based violence- Violence Against Women | Child marriage | Saint Kitts and Nevis | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698939009049.pdf | https://lawcommission.gov.kn/wp-content/documents/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis-2009/Ch-12_09-Marriage-Act.pdf |
(Amended by Act 7 of 1987) Supply of register book of banns.
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(1) The Registrar-General shall provide for use at every building wherein banns may be published under this Act a proper register book of banns, in the form or to the effect set out in Form F in the First Schedule, of substantial paper ruled and having the several pages numbered progressively wherein the particulars of all banns published in the said building shall be recorded; and immediately after each publication of banns the officiating minister, or the person officiating under his or her control, shall enter the date of such publication and sign the same. | Gender Based violence- Violence Against Women | Child marriage | Saint Kitts and Nevis | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698939009049.pdf | https://lawcommission.gov.kn/wp-content/documents/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis-2009/Ch-12_09-Marriage-Act.pdf |
(2) Every marriage officer supplied with a register book of banns, shall safely keep and preserve the same in his or her district, and such book shall be open to the inspection of the Registrar-General at all times.
LAWS OF SAINT CHRISTOPHER AND NEVIS Revision Date: 31 Dec 2002 Marriage Act CAP.
12.09 17 Marriage Licences.
Attorney-General or his or her representative may grant marriage licences. | Gender Based violence- Violence Against Women | Child marriage | Saint Kitts and Nevis | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698939009049.pdf | https://lawcommission.gov.kn/wp-content/documents/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis-2009/Ch-12_09-Marriage-Act.pdf |
(1) The Attorney-General or his or her representative, subject to the 35. restrictions hereinafter mentioned, may grant a licence or special licence to marry without publication of banns, or notice of marriage under this Act.
(Amended by Acts 6 of 1976, 7 of 1987 and 4 of 2002) (2) Any person applying for a special licence under this section, must submit his petition no less than two days before the date of the intended marriage.
(Inserted by Act 4 of 2002) Restriction in case of minority.
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36.
Where either of the parties, not being a widower or widow, is under the age of eighteen years, no licence or special licence shall be granted until the consent of the persons or person required by subsection (2) of section 28 has been first obtained.
(Amended by Act 7 of 1987) Marriage officer may be stated in licence. | Gender Based violence- Violence Against Women | Child marriage | Saint Kitts and Nevis | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698939009049.pdf | https://lawcommission.gov.kn/wp-content/documents/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis-2009/Ch-12_09-Marriage-Act.pdf |
The parties intending marriage or either of them may require that such licence 37. or special licence shall authorise the solemnisation or celebration of the marriage in respect of which such licence or special licence is applied for by any marriage officer by whom such marriage could have been solemnised or celebrated if banns or notice of marriage thereof had been published as required by this Act.
(Amended by Act 7 of 1987) Application for licence. | Gender Based violence- Violence Against Women | Child marriage | Saint Kitts and Nevis | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698939009049.pdf | https://lawcommission.gov.kn/wp-content/documents/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis-2009/Ch-12_09-Marriage-Act.pdf |
(1) Any persons intending marriage who desire to obtain such licence shall 38. apply to the Attorney-General or his or her representative therefor by petition. | Gender Based violence- Violence Against Women | Child marriage | Saint Kitts and Nevis | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698939009049.pdf | https://lawcommission.gov.kn/wp-content/documents/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis-2009/Ch-12_09-Marriage-Act.pdf |
(Amended by Act 4 of 2002) (2) The petition shall state— (a) the Christian or other names and surnames of the parties, their respective ages, rank, profession or occupation; (b) the place where, and the marriage officer by whom, the marriage is to be solemnised or celebrated; (c) whether the parties or either of them have or has been previously married; (d) that they know of no impediment of kindred or alliance or other lawful cause to prevent the proposed marriage; (e) that one of the parties— (i) in the case of an application for a licence, was resident in Saint Christopher and Nevis for the space of fifteen days immediately preceding the date of the application for the licence; or (ii) in the case of a special licence, there shall be no residency requirement; (Amended by Acts 7 of 1987 and 4 of 2002) 18 CAP. | Gender Based violence- Violence Against Women | Child marriage | Saint Kitts and Nevis | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698939009049.pdf | https://lawcommission.gov.kn/wp-content/documents/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis-2009/Ch-12_09-Marriage-Act.pdf |
12.09 Marriage Act LAWS OF SAINT CHRISTOPHER AND NEVIS Revision Date: 31 Dec 2002 (f) where either of the parties, not being a widower or widow, is under the age of eighteen years, that the consent of the person or persons whose consent to such marriage is required under this Act has been obtained; (Amended by Act 7 of 1987) (g) whether the application is for a licence or a special licence. | Gender Based violence- Violence Against Women | Child marriage | Saint Kitts and Nevis | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698939009049.pdf | https://lawcommission.gov.kn/wp-content/documents/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis-2009/Ch-12_09-Marriage-Act.pdf |
(Inserted by Act 7 of 1987) (3) The petition which shall be in the form or to the effect set forth in Form G in the First Schedule shall be signed by both parties and shall be accompanied by such evidence of the statements therein made as the Attorney-General or his or her representative may prescribe in the case of such petitions.
(Amended by Acts 7 of 1987 and 4 of 2002) Form of licence.
Form H. First Schedule.
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Form H. First Schedule.
39.
The licence shall be in the form or to the effect set forth in Form H in the First Schedule and a special licence shall be in that form except that wherever the word ‘licence’ occurs the words ‘special licence’ shall be substituted in its place.
(Amended by Act 7 of 1987) Objection to grant of licence.
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If any objection to the grant of any licence or special licence for a marriage be lodged at the Government Office, at Basseterre, such objection being duly signed by or on the behalf of the person who lodges the same, stating his or her place of residence and the ground of objection, no licence or special licence shall issue until the Attorney-General or his or her representative is satisfied that it ought not to obstruct the grant of the licence or special licence for the said marriage, or until the objection be withdrawn by the party who lodges the same. | Gender Based violence- Violence Against Women | Child marriage | Saint Kitts and Nevis | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698939009049.pdf | https://lawcommission.gov.kn/wp-content/documents/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis-2009/Ch-12_09-Marriage-Act.pdf |
(Amended by Acts 6 of 1976, 7 of 1987 and 4 of 2002) Licence void three months after date.
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41.
In all cases where three calendar months from the date of the licence or special licence has elapsed without the marriage to which a licence or special licence relates having been solemnised or celebrated such licence or special licence shall be void, and before the parties can be married by licence or special licence a fresh licence or special licence shall be obtained as if no licence or special licence had previously been granted.
(Amended by Act 7 of 1987) Registrar’s Certificate. | Gender Based violence- Violence Against Women | Child marriage | Saint Kitts and Nevis | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698939009049.pdf | https://lawcommission.gov.kn/wp-content/documents/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis-2009/Ch-12_09-Marriage-Act.pdf |
Notice of intended marriage. | Gender Based violence- Violence Against Women | Child marriage | Saint Kitts and Nevis | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698939009049.pdf | https://lawcommission.gov.kn/wp-content/documents/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis-2009/Ch-12_09-Marriage-Act.pdf |
(1) Any persons intending marriage who desire to obtain a certificate under 42. this Act from the Registrar-General or a Magistrate, shall give notice under their hands in the form or to the effect set out in Form I in the First Schedule to the Registrar-General or Magistrate of the district within which they have dwelt for not less than seven days then next preceding, or if the parties dwell in different districts, each shall give the like notice to the Registrar-General or Magistrate of the district wherein he or she has dwelt for the period aforesaid. | Gender Based violence- Violence Against Women | Child marriage | Saint Kitts and Nevis | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698939009049.pdf | https://lawcommission.gov.kn/wp-content/documents/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis-2009/Ch-12_09-Marriage-Act.pdf |
LAWS OF SAINT CHRISTOPHER AND NEVIS Revision Date: 31 Dec 2002 Marriage Act CAP. | Gender Based violence- Violence Against Women | Child marriage | Saint Kitts and Nevis | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698939009049.pdf | https://lawcommission.gov.kn/wp-content/documents/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis-2009/Ch-12_09-Marriage-Act.pdf |
12.09 19 (2) Every such notice shall have at the foot thereof a statutory declaration made and signed by the parties or party giving such notice and stating— (a) that they, or he, or she (as the case may be), know or knows of no impediment of kindred or alliance, or other lawful hindrance to the said marriage; (b) that they, or he, or she (as the case may be), have or has for the space of seven days immediately preceding the giving of such notice, had their, his, or her usual place of abode and residence within the district of the Registrar-General or Magistrate to whom such notice or notices (as the case may be) is or are so given; and (c) when either of the parties intending marriage, and not being a widower or widow, is under the age of eighteen years, further stating that the consent of the persons whose consent to such marriage is by law required or of a Judge of the High Court has been given. | Gender Based violence- Violence Against Women | Child marriage | Saint Kitts and Nevis | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698939009049.pdf | https://lawcommission.gov.kn/wp-content/documents/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis-2009/Ch-12_09-Marriage-Act.pdf |
(Amended by Act 7 of 1987) (3) Such declaration may be made before and taken by any person by law authorised to administer an oath, or before and by the Registrar-General or Magistrate to whom the notice is about to be given.
(4) No such notice as aforesaid shall be received by any Magistrate unless the said notice is in or to the effect of the prescribed form, and accompanied by such declaration as aforesaid.
Filing notice.
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Filing notice.
43.
(1) The Registrar-General or Magistrate to whom any such notice of marriage is given, on being satisfied that such notice is conformable to the requirements of this Act, shall forthwith file the same with the records of his or her office and also enter the particulars thereof in the marriage notice book, and for every such entry the Registrar-General or Magistrate shall be entitled to have a fee of five dollars. | Gender Based violence- Violence Against Women | Child marriage | Saint Kitts and Nevis | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698939009049.pdf | https://lawcommission.gov.kn/wp-content/documents/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis-2009/Ch-12_09-Marriage-Act.pdf |
(Amended by Act 7 of 1987) (2) The marriage notice book may, at any reasonable time, on application to the Registrar-General or Magistrate, be inspected without fee by any person.
Publication of notice. | Gender Based violence- Violence Against Women | Child marriage | Saint Kitts and Nevis | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698939009049.pdf | https://lawcommission.gov.kn/wp-content/documents/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis-2009/Ch-12_09-Marriage-Act.pdf |
The Registrar-General or Magistrate receiving, filing and entering any such 44. notice shall on the same day cause a notice thereof with a statement under his or her hand that any objections to the intended marriage shall be lodged with him or her within twenty-one days from the date thereof, to be suspended or affixed in some conspicuous and accessible place outside his or her office for the twenty-one days next after the day of entry of such notice in his or her marriage notice book, and such notice and statement shall be in the form or to the effect set out in Form J in the First Schedule. | Gender Based violence- Violence Against Women | Child marriage | Saint Kitts and Nevis | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698939009049.pdf | https://lawcommission.gov.kn/wp-content/documents/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis-2009/Ch-12_09-Marriage-Act.pdf |
Certificate of notice.
45.
(1) After the expiration of twenty-one days next after the day of the entry of such notice in his or her marriage notice book, the Registrar-General or Magistrate shall issue under his or her hand, upon the request of any party giving such notice, a certificate in the form or to the effect set forth in Form C in the First Schedule that in the meantime no lawful impediment or valid objection to such marriage has been shown to exist.
20 CAP. | Gender Based violence- Violence Against Women | Child marriage | Saint Kitts and Nevis | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698939009049.pdf | https://lawcommission.gov.kn/wp-content/documents/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis-2009/Ch-12_09-Marriage-Act.pdf |
20 CAP.
12.09 Marriage Act LAWS OF SAINT CHRISTOPHER AND NEVIS Revision Date: 31 Dec 2002 (2) For every such certificate the Registrar-General or Magistrate shall be entitled to demand and receive a fee of five dollars: Provided that no fee shall be claimed or paid in the case of a pauper.
(Amended by Act 7 of 1987) Objections to issue of certificate.
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46.
(1) Any person may enter an objection to the issue of a Registrar-General’s or Magistrate’s certificate, on the ground of any legal impediment to a marriage between the parties, or of consent on the part of any person whose consent is required to such marriage, not having been obtained. | Gender Based violence- Violence Against Women | Child marriage | Saint Kitts and Nevis | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698939009049.pdf | https://lawcommission.gov.kn/wp-content/documents/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis-2009/Ch-12_09-Marriage-Act.pdf |
(2) Such objection shall be in writing signed by or on behalf of the person who enters the same, shall state his or her name and place of residence and the ground of his or her objection, and shall be lodged with the Registrar-General or Magistrate of the district within twenty-one days from the date of the notice set up outside his or her office under section 44. | Gender Based violence- Violence Against Women | Child marriage | Saint Kitts and Nevis | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698939009049.pdf | https://lawcommission.gov.kn/wp-content/documents/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis-2009/Ch-12_09-Marriage-Act.pdf |
(3) When any objection is lodged as aforesaid the Registrar-General or Magistrate shall forward the objection to a Judge of the High Court who shall decide upon the same as expeditiously as the circumstances of the case will permit, the objection so forwarded being as far as practicable regarded and dealt with as a petition to the Judge sitting in Chambers. | Gender Based violence- Violence Against Women | Child marriage | Saint Kitts and Nevis | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698939009049.pdf | https://lawcommission.gov.kn/wp-content/documents/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis-2009/Ch-12_09-Marriage-Act.pdf |
(Amended by Act 5 of 1967) (4) The Registrar-General or Magistrate shall, in any such case, suspend the issue of his or her certificate until he or she receives a certified copy of the Judge’s decision, and shall act in conformity therewith.
(5) The costs of and attending the decision on any objection by a Judge shall be in the Judge’s discretion.
Certificate, when void.
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Certificate, when void.
47.
In all cases where three calendar months from the date of entry of notice have elapsed without the marriage to which a certificate relates having been solemnised or celebrated, such certificate shall be void, and before the parties can be married on a Registrar General’s or Magistrate’s certificate, a fresh notice shall be given as if no proceedings had previously been taken to obtain a certificate. | Gender Based violence- Violence Against Women | Child marriage | Saint Kitts and Nevis | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698939009049.pdf | https://lawcommission.gov.kn/wp-content/documents/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis-2009/Ch-12_09-Marriage-Act.pdf |
PART V SOLEMNISATION OR CELEBRATION OF MARRIAGE Solemnisation or celebration of marriage. | Gender Based violence- Violence Against Women | Child marriage | Saint Kitts and Nevis | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698939009049.pdf | https://lawcommission.gov.kn/wp-content/documents/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis-2009/Ch-12_09-Marriage-Act.pdf |
Every marriage shall, except in the cases mentioned in Part VII, be solemnised 48. or celebrated— (a) between the hours of six in the morning and eight in the evening, if solemnised by a marriage officer other than the Registrar-General or a Magistrate, and between the hours of eight in the morning and six- thirty in the afternoon if celebrated by the Registrar-General or a Magistrate; (Amended by Act 7 of 1987) LAWS OF SAINT CHRISTOPHER AND NEVIS Revision Date: 31 Dec 2002 Marriage Act CAP. | Gender Based violence- Violence Against Women | Child marriage | Saint Kitts and Nevis | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698939009049.pdf | https://lawcommission.gov.kn/wp-content/documents/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis-2009/Ch-12_09-Marriage-Act.pdf |
12.09 21 (b) by a marriage officer in the presence of two or more credible witnesses beside such marriage officer— (i) at any place within Saint Christopher and Nevis that he or she is satisfied is a fit and proper place for such solemnisation; or (Substituted by Act 7 of 1987) (ii) if such marriage officer be the Registrar-General or a Magistrate, then such marriage shall be celebrated at any place within Saint Christopher and Nevis that he or she is satisfied is a fit and proper place for such celebration; (c) (i) according to such form and ceremony as the parties may see fit to adopt: Provided that in some part of the ceremony the consent of each party to accept the other as his or her wife or husband is clearly expressed in the presence of the marriage officer and the witnesses; and (ii) if the marriage officer is the Registrar-General or Magistrate each of the parties shall say to the other: “I call upon these persons here present to witness that I (A.B.) | Gender Based violence- Violence Against Women | Child marriage | Saint Kitts and Nevis | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698939009049.pdf | https://lawcommission.gov.kn/wp-content/documents/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis-2009/Ch-12_09-Marriage-Act.pdf |
do take thee (C.D.)
to be my lawful wedded wife (or husband).” (Amended by Act 7 of 1987) Addition of religious ceremony to civil if desired.
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If the parties to any marriage contracted at the office of the Registrar-General or Magistrate desire to add the religious ceremony ordained or used by any church or persuasion to the marriage so contracted, they may present themselves for that purpose to any minister of such church or persuasion, and such minister, upon the production of their certificate of marriage before the Registrar-General or Magistrate, may, if he or she thinks fit, perform the marriage service of the church or persuasion to which he or she belongs, but nothing in the performance of such service shall supersede or invalidate any marriage so previously contracted, nor shall the performance of such service be entered as a marriage among the marriages in any marriage register provided under this Act: Provided that at no marriage celebrated at the office of the Registrar-General or Magistrate shall any religious service be used at such office. | Gender Based violence- Violence Against Women | Child marriage | Saint Kitts and Nevis | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698939009049.pdf | https://lawcommission.gov.kn/wp-content/documents/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis-2009/Ch-12_09-Marriage-Act.pdf |
Fee for celebration of marriage.
50.
(1) The Registrar-General or Magistrate shall be paid a fee as may be prescribed by the Attorney-General which fee shall be paid into the Consolidated Fund.
(2) For every marriage celebrated by the Registrar-General or Magistrate at a place other than his or her office, he or she shall, in addition to the fee referred to in subsection (1), be paid such fee for his or her own personal use as may be prescribed by the Attorney-General. | Gender Based violence- Violence Against Women | Child marriage | Saint Kitts and Nevis | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698939009049.pdf | https://lawcommission.gov.kn/wp-content/documents/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis-2009/Ch-12_09-Marriage-Act.pdf |
(3) For every marriage celebrated by a marriage officer who is a Justice of the Peace, he or she shall be paid such fee as may be prescribed by the Attorney-General, a portion of which fee shall be paid into the Consolidated Fund on such terms as the Attorney-General shall prescribe.
(Substituted by Act 4 of 2002) 22 CAP.
12.09 Marriage Act LAWS OF SAINT CHRISTOPHER AND NEVIS Revision Date: 31 Dec 2002 Case of marriage between minors after publication of banns.
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No marriage officer who solemnises any marriage after due publication of banns as aforesaid between persons, both or one of whom not being a widow or widower are or is at the time of such marriage under legal age, shall be answerable or responsible or liable to any pain, penalty or proceeding, for having solemnised such marriage without the consent of the parents or guardians or other persons, if any, whose consent is required by law, unless such parents or guardians, or other persons, or one of them, shall forbid the marriage, and give notice thereof in writing to such marriage officer before he or she has solemnised the same. | Gender Based violence- Violence Against Women | Child marriage | Saint Kitts and Nevis | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698939009049.pdf | https://lawcommission.gov.kn/wp-content/documents/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis-2009/Ch-12_09-Marriage-Act.pdf |
PART VI REGISTRATION OF MARRIAGE Safety of marriage register books and forms.
(1) The Registrar-General shall control and direct the proper registration of all 52. marriages under this Act. | Gender Based violence- Violence Against Women | Child marriage | Saint Kitts and Nevis | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698939009049.pdf | https://lawcommission.gov.kn/wp-content/documents/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis-2009/Ch-12_09-Marriage-Act.pdf |
(2) He or she shall as soon as possible after the coming into operation of this Act and thereafter whenever necessary furnish to every marriage officer a bound book to be called the “Marriage Register Book,” which shall be in the Form K in the First Schedule and separate sheets for a duplicate original register, all of substantial paper according to the forms provided for the registration of marriages by this Act. | Gender Based violence- Violence Against Women | Child marriage | Saint Kitts and Nevis | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698939009049.pdf | https://lawcommission.gov.kn/wp-content/documents/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis-2009/Ch-12_09-Marriage-Act.pdf |
(3) Every marriage officer shall safely keep and preserve in his or her district every such marriage register book furnished to him or her, and such book shall be open to the inspection of the Registrar-General at all times.
(4) The cost of providing such books and separate sheets shall be defrayed from public funds.
Keeping of register of marriages.
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Immediately after the solemnisation or celebration of every marriage, an entry thereof shall be made in the marriage register book, by the marriage officer; and in every such entry in every such register it shall be expressed that the marriage was had by banns or the Attorney-General’s or his or her representative’s licence or Registrar- General’s or Magistrate’s certificate, and if both or either of the parties married by licence or certificate be under age and not a widow or widower, that it was had with the consent of the parents or guardian or other persons or person having lawful authority to withhold consent to the marriage, or after such order of the Judge as aforesaid, and shall be signed by the marriage officer with his or her proper addition, and by the parties married, and shall be attested by such two witnesses; and every such entry shall be in the form or to the effect set out in Form K in the First Schedule. | Gender Based violence- Violence Against Women | Child marriage | Saint Kitts and Nevis | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698939009049.pdf | https://lawcommission.gov.kn/wp-content/documents/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis-2009/Ch-12_09-Marriage-Act.pdf |
(Amended by Act 4 of 2002) Duplicate register.
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(1) Of every such entry at the same time before the parties depart shall then and there be made on a separate sheet of paper as supplied from time to time by the Registrar-General a duplicate original register in which the same matter shall be entered and signed and attested by the same parties in the form or to the effect set out in Form L in the First Schedule.
LAWS OF SAINT CHRISTOPHER AND NEVIS Revision Date: 31 Dec 2002 Marriage Act CAP. | Gender Based violence- Violence Against Women | Child marriage | Saint Kitts and Nevis | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698939009049.pdf | https://lawcommission.gov.kn/wp-content/documents/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis-2009/Ch-12_09-Marriage-Act.pdf |
12.09 23 (2) All such duplicate original registers shall, within fourteen days from the date thereof, be transmitted by the marriage officer to the Registrar of births, deaths and marriages of the parish in which the marriage takes place, and the Registrar of births, deaths and marriages shall, at the end of every three months, viz., within the first ten days of January, April, July and October of each year, transmit all such duplicates to the Registrar-General who shall file and safely preserve them in his or her office. | Gender Based violence- Violence Against Women | Child marriage | Saint Kitts and Nevis | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698939009049.pdf | https://lawcommission.gov.kn/wp-content/documents/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis-2009/Ch-12_09-Marriage-Act.pdf |
(3) The Registrar-General shall make or cause to be made and kept in his or her office an alphabetical index of all duplicate original registers filed in his or her office. | Gender Based violence- Violence Against Women | Child marriage | Saint Kitts and Nevis | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698939009049.pdf | https://lawcommission.gov.kn/wp-content/documents/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis-2009/Ch-12_09-Marriage-Act.pdf |
(4) Every original register, and also every copy thereof, certified under the hand of the marriage officer or Registrar-General or Magistrate who for the time being has the lawful custody of the original to be a true copy, and every such duplicate original register, and also every copy thereof, certified under the hand of the Registrar-General or Magistrate to be a true copy, shall respectively be good evidence of the facts therein recorded, in pursuance of this Act in all Courts and proceedings whatsoever in which it may be necessary to give evidence of the marriage to which the same relates. | Gender Based violence- Violence Against Women | Child marriage | Saint Kitts and Nevis | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698939009049.pdf | https://lawcommission.gov.kn/wp-content/documents/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis-2009/Ch-12_09-Marriage-Act.pdf |
Right to search register books and have copies of entries.
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It shall be lawful for all persons at all reasonable times in the day (except Saturdays, Sundays and holidays) on application to the marriage officer or Registrar- General to search the original marriage register book and also the file of duplicate original registers, in the presence of the person for the time being having the care of the same respectively, and to have a true copy of any entry therein, certified under the hand of the marriage officer, or Registrar-General, having the custody of the original or duplicate original register as aforesaid (as the case may be) which true copy such marriage officer, or Registrar-General, is hereby required to make, examine and certify under his or her hand to be a true copy in the form of the duplicate original register, except that the same shall be headed “Certified Copy of Original (or Duplicate Original) Marriage Register Book” (as the case may be) and shall be dated on the day, month and year when the same is delivered. | Gender Based violence- Violence Against Women | Child marriage | Saint Kitts and Nevis | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698939009049.pdf | https://lawcommission.gov.kn/wp-content/documents/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis-2009/Ch-12_09-Marriage-Act.pdf |
(Amended by Act 7 of 1987) Fees payable for searches and for copies.
The fees set out in Schedule D to the Registration of Births, Deaths and 56.
Marriages Act as from time to time amended shall be demanded and paid before any search is made or, as the case may be, any certified copy of an entry is delivered to any person.
(Substituted by Act 5 of 1967) PART VII CLINICAL MARRIAGES Marriage in articulo mortis.
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(1) It shall be lawful for any minister of the Christian religion, being a duly appointed marriage officer under the provisions of this Act, to solemnise a marriage without any licence or certificate of notice or banns in the following special case, that is to say, where the marriage is between two persons, one of whom he or she believes 24 CAP. | Gender Based violence- Violence Against Women | Child marriage | Saint Kitts and Nevis | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698939009049.pdf | https://lawcommission.gov.kn/wp-content/documents/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis-2009/Ch-12_09-Marriage-Act.pdf |
12.09 Marriage Act LAWS OF SAINT CHRISTOPHER AND NEVIS Revision Date: 31 Dec 2002 from the certificate of a medical practitioner, if any such practitioner has been in attendance on such person during his or her last illness (as the case may be), to be in articulo mortis; or if no medical practitioner has been in attendance as above, and for reason shown to the satisfaction of the marriage officer that it is impossible to procure a medical certificate within the probable time of death of one of the parties concerned, and the marriage officer believes from his or her own observation that he or she (as the case may be) is in articulo mortis: Provided that in every such case, before the solemnisation of any such marriage, the person so believed to be in articulo mortis shall first declare in the presence of two credible witnesses that he or she (as the case may be) believes that he or she (as the case may be) is at the point of death: and Provided also that no marriage in articulo mortis shall be solemnised unless both parties to such marriage are able to and actually and previously signify, in the presence of two or more credible witnesses, besides the marriage officer, their consent to such marriage. | Gender Based violence- Violence Against Women | Child marriage | Saint Kitts and Nevis | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698939009049.pdf | https://lawcommission.gov.kn/wp-content/documents/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis-2009/Ch-12_09-Marriage-Act.pdf |
(2) No such marriage shall be solemnised where either of the parties is under eighteen years of age, not being a widower or widow, without the verbal or written consent of the person whose consent is by law required, and if such person is present such consent may be given orally, and such person shall sign the register of such marriage in token of assent thereto, and if such person is absent such consent shall be in writing and shall be attached to the duplicate original register. | Gender Based violence- Violence Against Women | Child marriage | Saint Kitts and Nevis | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698939009049.pdf | https://lawcommission.gov.kn/wp-content/documents/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis-2009/Ch-12_09-Marriage-Act.pdf |
(Amended by Act 7 of 1987) (3) If the person whose consent is by law required to be given is absent, inaccessible, non compos mentis, or being present withholds his, her or their consent to such marriage, the marriage officer may, if he or she is of opinion that the consent of such person is unreasonably withheld and that the condition of the dying person does not permit of the delay involved in a petition to the High Court, proceed to solemnise the marriage: Provided that such parent or guardian may, by petition to the Supreme Court, within a reasonable time, in any case not exceeding three months, from the date of the marriage, have the marriage made void of effect on proof that the marriage was one to which the Court would not have consented had the matter come before it in the first instance. | Gender Based violence- Violence Against Women | Child marriage | Saint Kitts and Nevis | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698939009049.pdf | https://lawcommission.gov.kn/wp-content/documents/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis-2009/Ch-12_09-Marriage-Act.pdf |
(4) No marriage solemnised under the provisions of this section shall be valid unless the foregoing conditions are observed.
(5) A marriage solemnised under this Part shall be specially registered and the certificate of the medical practitioner, or of the marriage officer who performed the ceremony, as the case may be, that in his or her opinion the sick person is at the point of death, shall be attached to the duplicate original register and forwarded to the Registrar-General. | Gender Based violence- Violence Against Women | Child marriage | Saint Kitts and Nevis | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698939009049.pdf | https://lawcommission.gov.kn/wp-content/documents/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis-2009/Ch-12_09-Marriage-Act.pdf |
(6) The register and duplicate original register shall contain the particulars and be in the form or the effect set out in Forms M and N respectively in the First Schedule, and in all other respects the provisions of this Act relating to registration of marriage and the keeping of registers of marriage shall apply: Provided that the duplicate original marriage register in each case of a marriage in articulo mortis shall be forwarded by the marriage officer to the Registrar-General by the first opportunity and not later in any case than seven days after the solemnisation of the marriage, and on receipt of the duplicate original register the Registrar-General shall for a space of three weeks cause a true and exact LAWS OF SAINT CHRISTOPHER AND NEVIS Revision Date: 31 Dec 2002 Marriage Act CAP. | Gender Based violence- Violence Against Women | Child marriage | Saint Kitts and Nevis | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698939009049.pdf | https://lawcommission.gov.kn/wp-content/documents/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis-2009/Ch-12_09-Marriage-Act.pdf |
12.09 25 copy thereof to be suspended or affixed in some conspicuous and accessible place outside his or her office. | Gender Based violence- Violence Against Women | Child marriage | Saint Kitts and Nevis | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698939009049.pdf | https://lawcommission.gov.kn/wp-content/documents/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis-2009/Ch-12_09-Marriage-Act.pdf |
(7) The certificate to be given by a medical practitioner or by a marriage officer for the purposes of this section, shall be in the form prescribed in Form O in the First Schedule, and the fee payable to any Government medical officer for such certificate shall be two dollars, if a special visit is not required before it can be given, but if a special visit is required, a fee of five dollars shall be payable: Provided that no fee shall be claimed and paid in the case of a pauper. | Gender Based violence- Violence Against Women | Child marriage | Saint Kitts and Nevis | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698939009049.pdf | https://lawcommission.gov.kn/wp-content/documents/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis-2009/Ch-12_09-Marriage-Act.pdf |
(Amended by Act 7 of 1987) PART VIII OFFENCES, ETC.
Unduly solemnising marriage.
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Any person who knowingly and wilfully— (a) solemnises or celebrates marriage at any other time than between the hours fixed by section 48(1), save in the cases mentioned in section 5(2) and Part VII; (b) solemnises or celebrates any marriage save in the cases mentioned in section 5(2) and Part VII without due publication of banns, or licence of marriage from the Attorney-General or his or her representative, or certificate from the Registrar-General or Magistrate first had and obtained; (c) solemnises or celebrates any marriage save as aforesaid more than three months after the last publication of banns, or the issue of a licence by the Attorney-General or his or her representative, or the entry of a notice of such marriage by the Registrar-General or Magistrate; or (d) falsely pretending to be a marriage officer solemnises or celebrates marriage, commits a misdemeanour, and shall, on conviction, be liable to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for any term not exceeding two years: Provided that all prosecutions for any such misdemeanour shall be commenced within three years after the offence was committed. | Gender Based violence- Violence Against Women | Child marriage | Saint Kitts and Nevis | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698939009049.pdf | https://lawcommission.gov.kn/wp-content/documents/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis-2009/Ch-12_09-Marriage-Act.pdf |
(Amended by Act 6 of 1976) Making false declaration, etc.
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Any person who knowingly and wilfully makes any false declaration (statutory or other) or signs any petition, notice, statement or certificate required by this Act, which is in any material respect false, for the purposes of procuring any marriage, shall be deemed guilty of wilful and corrupt perjury and shall be liable to be prosecuted and punished accordingly.
Celebration by Registrar of a void marriage.
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Celebration by Registrar of a void marriage.
60.
Any marriage officer, being a Registrar-General or Magistrate, who knowingly and wilfully celebrates or permits to be celebrated in his or her office any marriage in 26 CAP.
12.09 Marriage Act LAWS OF SAINT CHRISTOPHER AND NEVIS Revision Date: 31 Dec 2002 this Act declared to be null and void commits a misdemeanour and on conviction shall be liable to imprisonment with or without hard labour for any term not exceeding two years. | Gender Based violence- Violence Against Women | Child marriage | Saint Kitts and Nevis | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698939009049.pdf | https://lawcommission.gov.kn/wp-content/documents/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis-2009/Ch-12_09-Marriage-Act.pdf |
Liability of persons lodging an objection on frivolous grounds.
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(1) Any person who shall enter an objection at the Government Office at Basseterre, or at the office of the Registrar-General or Magistrate against the grant of any licence or issue of any certificate, on grounds which the Minister or a Judge shall declare to be frivolous as well as being such as ought not to obstruct the grant of the licence or certificate, shall be liable for the cost of the proceedings, and for damages which may be recovered by complaint or action by the party against whose marriage such objection has been lodged. | Gender Based violence- Violence Against Women | Child marriage | Saint Kitts and Nevis | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698939009049.pdf | https://lawcommission.gov.kn/wp-content/documents/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis-2009/Ch-12_09-Marriage-Act.pdf |
(2) For the purpose of enabling any person to recover costs and damages in any action, as provided by this section, from any person who has lodged an objection on frivolous grounds, a copy of the declaration of the Minister purporting to be signed by him or her or a copy of the judgment of the Judge, shall be evidence that the Minister or Judge has declared such objection to have been lodged on grounds that are frivolous as well as being such as ought not to obstruct the grant of the licence or issue of the certificate, as the case may be. | Gender Based violence- Violence Against Women | Child marriage | Saint Kitts and Nevis | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698939009049.pdf | https://lawcommission.gov.kn/wp-content/documents/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis-2009/Ch-12_09-Marriage-Act.pdf |
(Amended by Act 7 of 1987) Injury, etc., of marriage register.
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Any person who knowingly and unlawfully falsifies, destroys, injures, removes or corrects any public register of marriages with intent to defeat, or obstruct, or prevent the course of justice, or to defraud or injure any person, shall be liable to imprisonment with or without hard labour for any term not exceeding three years.
Injury, etc., of a certificate.
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Injury, etc., of a certificate.
63.
Any marriage officer who knowingly and unlawfully falsifies, destroys, injures or conceals any notice or certificate which is in his or her possession, custody or control, or to which he or she has access by virtue of his or her office, shall be liable to imprisonment with or without hard labour for any term not exceeding two years.
Penalty for non-compliance with provisions of Act.
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Any marriage officer who knowingly and wilfully makes default in strictly complying with the provisions of this Act as regards the safe and proper custody of any book or form supplied to him or her by the Registrar-General under the provisions of this Act, or who fails to transmit to the Registrar-General within the time specified the several registers or documents herein required to be transmitted, or who obstructs the Registrar-General in the execution of his or her duty under this Act, commits an offence and shall, on summary conviction, be liable to a penalty not exceeding four hundred and fifty dollars. | Gender Based violence- Violence Against Women | Child marriage | Saint Kitts and Nevis | https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1698939009049.pdf | https://lawcommission.gov.kn/wp-content/documents/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis/Revised-Acts-of-St-Kitts-and-Nevis-2009/Ch-12_09-Marriage-Act.pdf |
(Amended by Acts 7 of 1976 and 9 of 1986) LAWS OF SAINT CHRISTOPHER AND NEVIS Revision Date: 31 Dec 2002 Marriage Act CAP.
12.09 27 PART IX MISCELLANEOUS Dispensation with proof of certain preliminary matters after marriage.
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