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THE MARRIAGE ACT.

The following are the enactments of the Act entitled " An
Act for Marriages in England," which received the Royal
assent on the 17th of August, 1836 :-
1. That after the Ist day of March, in the year 1837, notwithstand-
ing anything in this Act contained, all the rules prescribed by the Ru-
brick concerning the solemnising of marriages shall continue to be duly
observed by every person in holy orders of the Church of England, who
shall solemnise any marriage in England; provided always, that where
by any law or canon in force before the passing of this Act it is pro-
vided that any marriage maybe solemnised after publication of bans, such
marriage may be solemnised in like manner on production of the re-
gistrar's certificate, as hereinafter provided; provided also, that nothing
in this Act contained shall affect the right of the Archbishop of Canter-
bury and his successors, and his and their proper officers, to grant spe-
cial licenses to marry at any convenient time and place, or the right of
any surrogate or other person now having authority to grant licenses for
marriages.
2. That the Society of Friends, commonly called Quakers, and also
persons professing the Jewish religion, may continue to contract and
solemnize marriages according to the usages of the said society and of the
said persons respectively; and every such marriage is hereby declared
and confirmed good in law, provided that the parties to such marriage be
both of the said society, or both persons professing the Jewish religion
respectively, provided also that the notice to the registrar shall have
been given, and the registrar's certificate shall have issued in manner
hereinafter provided.
3. That the superintendent registrar of births and deaths of every
union, parish, or place, shall be, in right of his office, superintendent
registrar of marriage with such union, parish, or place, and that such
union, parish, or place shall be deemed the district of such superinten.
dent-registrar of marriages.
4. That in every case of marriage intended to be solemnized in Eng-
land after the said Ist day of March according to the rites of the Church
of England (unless by license, or by special license, or after publication
of bans), and in every case of marriage intended to be solemnized in
England after the said Ist day of March according to the usages of the
Quakers or Jews, or according to any form authorised by this Act, one of
the parties shall give notice under his or her hand, in the form of Sche.
dule A, to this Act annexed, or to the like effect, to the superintendent.
registrar of the district within which the parties shall have dwelt for
not less than seven days then next preceding ; or if the parties dwell in
the districts of different superintendent-registrars shall give the like no-
tice to the superintendent-registrar of each district, and shall state
therein the name and surname, and the profession or condition of each
of the parties intending marriage, the dwelling place of each of them,
and the time not being less than seven days during which each has
dwelt therein, and the church or other building in which the marriage
is to be solemnised ; provided that if either party shall have dwelt in the
place stated in the notice during more than one calendar month it may
he stated therein that he or she hath dwelt there onemonth and upwards.
5. That the superintendent-registrar shall file all such notices, and
keep them with the records of his office, and shall also forthwith enter a
true copy of all such notices fairly into a book, to be for that purpose
furnished to him by the registrar general, to be called" The Marriage
Notice Book," the cost of providing which be defrayed in like manner as
the cost of providing register-books of births and deaths; and the mar-
riage notice-book shall be open at all reasonable times without fee to all
persons desirous of inspecting the same ; and for every such entry the
superintendent.registrar shall be entitled to have a fee of is.
6. That if such superintendent-registrar shall be clerk to the guardians
of any poor-law union, or of any parish or place comprising the district
for which such superintendent-registrar shall act, he shall read such no-
tices as hereinafter directed : and if he shall not be such clerk then he
shall transmit to such clerk on the day previous to each weekly meeting
of such guardians all such notices of intended marriage as he shall have
received on or since the day previous to the weekly meeting immediately
preceding the same; and such clerk shall read such notices immediately
after the minutes of the proceedings of such guardians at their last meet-
ing shall have been read ; and such notices shall be so read three several
times in three successive weeks at the weekly meetings of such guar-
dians, unless in any case license for marriage shall be sooner granted, and
notice of such license being granted shall have been given to such clerk ;
provided also ti.at if it shall happen that the board of guardians of any
such union, parish, or place, shall not so meet it shall be sufficient for the
purposes of this Act that such notice shall be read at any meeting of such
guardians which shall be held within 21 days from the day ofsuch notice
being entered.
7. That after the expiration of seven days, if the marriage is to be
solemnized by license, or of 21 days if the marriage is to be solemnised
without license, after the entry of such notices, the superintendent-regis-
trar, upon being requested so to do by, or on behalf of the party by whom
the notice was given, shall issue under his hand a certificate in the form
of Schedule (B) to this Act annexed, provided that no lawful impedi-
ment be shown to the satisfaction of the superintendent-registrar why
such certificate should not issue, and provided that the issue of such
certificate shall not have been sooner forbidden in manner hereafter
mentioned by any person or persons authorised in that behalf, as here-
inafter is provided : and every such certificate shall state the particulars
set forth in the notice, the day on which the notice was entered, and that
the full period of seven days or of 21 days (as the case may be) has
elapsed since the entr♦ of such notice, and that the issue of such certi-
ficate has not been forbidden by any person or persons authorised in that
behalf; and for every such certificate the superintendent-registrar shall
be entitled to have a fee of Is.
8. That the registrar-general shall furnish to every superintendent-
registrar a sufficent number of forms of certificates, the cost of which
shall be accounted for by the superintendent-registrar to the registrar_
general ; and in order to distinguish the certificates to be issued for mar-
riages by license from the certificates to be issued for marriages without
license, a watermark in the form of the word " license," in Roman
letters, shall be laid and manufactured in the substance of the paper in
which the certificates to be issued for marriage by license shall be
written or printed; and every certificate to be issued for marriage by
license shall be written with red ink, and every certificate to be issued
for marriage without license shall be printed with black ink, all such
other distinctive marks between the two kinds of certificates shall be
used from time to time as shall seem fit to the registrar_general.
9. That any person authorised in that behalf may forbid the issue of
the superintendent-registrar's certificate by writing at any time before
the issue of such certificate the word" forbidden" opposite to the entry
of the notice of such intended marriage in the marriage notice-book,
and by subscribing thereto his or her name and place of abode, and his
or her character, in respect of either of the parties, by reason of which
he or she is so authorised ; and in case the issue of any such certificate
shall have been so forbidden the notice and all proceedings thereupon
shall be utterly void.
10. That after the said let clay of March the like consent will be re-
quired to any marriage in England solemnised by license as would have
been required by law to marriages solemnised by license immediately
before the passing of this Act; and every person whose consent to a
marriage by license is required by law is hereby authorised to forbid the
issue of the superintendent registrar's certificate, whether the marriage
was intended to be by license or without license.
11. That after the said Ist day of March every superintendent-regis-
trar shall have authority to grant licenses for marriage in any building
registered as hereinafter provided within any district under his superin-
tendence, or in his office, in the form of schedule (C) to this Act an.
nexed, and for every such license shall be entitled to have of the party
requiring the same the sum of 3/. above the value of the stamps ne-
cessary on granting such license ; and every superintendent.registrar
shall four times in every year, on such days as shall be appointed by the
registrar-general, make a return to the registrar-general of every license
granted by him since his last return, and of the particulars stated
concerning the parties; providing always that no superintendent-regis_
trar shalt grant any such license until he shall have given security by
his bond in the sum of 1001. to the registrar-general for the due and
faithful execution of his office; provided also, that nothing herein
contained shall authorise any superintendent-registrar to grant any li-
cense for marriage in any church or chapel in which marriages may be
solemnised according to the rites of the Church of England, or In any
church or chapel belonging to the Church of England or licensed for the
celebration of divine worship according to the rites and ceremonies of the
Church of England, or any license for marriage iu any registered build-
ing which shall not be within this district.
12. That before any license for marriage shall be granted for any such
superintendent-registrar, one of the parties intending marriage shall ass_
pear personally before such superintendent-registrar, and in case the
notice of such intended marriage shall not have been given to such su-
perintendant-registrar shall deliver to him the certificate of the superin-
tendent-registrar or superintendent-registrars to whom such notice shall
have been given, and such party shall make oath, or shall take his or her
solemn affirmation of declaration, instead of taking an oath, that he or
she believeth that there is not any impediment of kindred or alliance, or
other lawful hindrance, to the said marriage ; and that one of the said
parties bath for the space of fifteen days immediately before the day of
the grant such license had his or her usual place of abode within the dis-
trict within which such marriage is to be solemnised, and where either
of the parties not being a widower or widow shall be under the age of
21 years, that the consent of person or persons whose consent to such
marriage is required by law has been obtained thereto, or that there is
no person having authority to give such consent as the case may be ;
and all such licenses and declarations shall be respectively liable to the
same stamp duties as licenses for marriage granted by the ordinary of any
diocese, and affidavits made in order to procure the same.
13. That any person, on payment of five shillings,smay enter a caveat
with the superintendent-registrar against the grant of a certificate or a
license for the marriage of any person named therein ; and if any caveat
be entered with the superintendent-registrar, such caveat being duly
signed by or on behalf of the person who entet•s the same, together with
his or her place of residence, and the ground of objection on which his
or her caveat is founded no certificate or license shall issue or be
granted until the superintendent.registrar shall have examined into the
matter of the caveat, and is satisfied that it is not to obstruct the grant
of the certificate or license for the said marriage, or until the caveat be
withdrawn by the party who entered the same; provided that, in cases
of doubt, it shall be lawful for the superintendent-registrar to refer the
matter of any such caveat to the registrar-general, who shall decide
upon the same; provided likewise that in case of the superintendent-
registrar refusing the grant of the certificate or license the person apply-
ing for the same shall have a right to appeal to the registrar_general,
who shall thereupon either confirm the refusal or direct the grant of
the certificate or license.
14. That after the said Ist day of Match, no marriage after such notice
as aforesaid, unless by virtue of a license to be granted by the superinten-
dent-registrar, shall be solemnized or registered in England, until after
the expiration of 21 days after the entry of such notice as aforesaid; and
no marriage shall be solemnized by the license of any superintendent.
registrar or registered until after the expiration of seven days after the
the day of the entry of such notice as aforesaid.
15. That whenever a marriage shall not be had within three calendar
months after the notice shall have been so entered by the superintendent.
registrar, the notice and certificate,iand any license which may have been
granted thereupon, and all other proceedings thereupon, shall be utterly
void; and no person shall proceed to solemnise the marriage, nor shall
any registrar register the same, until new notice shall have been given,
and entry made, and certificate thereof given, at the time, and in the
manner aforesaid.
16. That the superintendent's certificate,or, in case the parties shall
have given notice to the superintendent of different districts, the cer-
tificate of each superintendent shall be delivered to the officiating mi.
nister, if the marriage shall be solemnised according to the rites of the
Church of England; and the said certificate or license shall be
delivered to the registering officer of the people called Quakers for the
place where the marriage is solemnised, if the same shall be solemnised
according to the usages of the said people; or to the officer of a syna.
gogue by whom the marriage is registered, if the same shall be solem-
nised according to the usages of persons professing the Jewish religion ;
and in all other cases shall be delivered to the registrar present at the
marriage, as hereinafter provided.
17. That it shall be lawful for the superintendant.registrar of any
union, parish, or place, subject to the approval of the board of guardians
thereof, to appoint, by writing, under his hand, such person or persons
as he may think fit, with such qualifications as the registrar-general, by
any general rule, may declare to be necessary, to be a registrar or re-
gistrars, for the purpose of being present at marriages to be solemnised
by virtue of this Act, at which the presence of a registrar is made neces
sary, and every such registrar of marriages shall hold his office during
the pleasure of the superintendent-registrar by whom he was appointed,
or of the registrar-general.
18. That any proprietor or trustee of a separate building, certified
according to law as a place of religious worship, may apply to the super-
intendent-registrar of the district, in order that such building may be
registered for solemnising marriages therein, and i❑ such'Case shall de-
liver to the superintendent-registrar a certificate, signed in duplicate by
twenty householders at the least, that such building has been used by
them during one year at the least as their usual place of public religious
worship, and that they are desirous that such place should be registered
as a aforesaid, each of which certificates shall be countersigned by the
proprietor or trustee by whom the same shall be delivered ; and the su-
perintendent-registrar shall send both certificates to the registrar-gene-
ral, who shall register such building accordingly in a book to be kept for

that purpose at the general register-office; and the registrar-general
shall endorse on both certificates the date of the registry, and shall keep
one certificate with the other records of the general register-office, and
shall return the other certificate to the superintendent-registrar, who
shall keep the same with the other records of his office; and the super-
intendent-registral shall enter the date of the registry of such building
in a book to be furnished to him for that purpose by the registrar.gene-
ral, and shall give a certificate of such registry under his hand, on
parchment or vellum, to the proprietor or trustee by whom the certifi-
cates are countersigned, and shall give public notice of the registry
thereof by advertisement in some newspaper circulating within the
county, and in the " London Gazette;" and for every such entry, certi-
ficate and publication, the superintendent-registrar shall receive at the
time of the delivery to him of the certificates the sum of Si.
19. That if at any time subsequent to the registry of any building for
solemnising marriages therein it shall be made to appear to the satisfac-
tion of the registrarsgeneral that such building has been disused for the
public religious worship of the congregation on whose behalf it was re.
gistered as aforesaid the registrar-general shall cause the registry thereof
to be cancelled ; provided that if it shall be proved to the satisfaction of
the registrar-general that the same congregation use instead thereof some
other 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, although such new place of worship may not have
been used for that purpose during one year then next preceding; and
every application for cancelling the registry of any such building, or for
such substitution and registry of a substituted building, shall be made to
the registrar-general by or through the superintendent-registrar of the
district ; and such cancel or substitution, when made, shall be made
known by the registrar-general to the superintendent-registrar, who shall
enter the fact and the date thereof in the book provided for the registry
of such buildings, and shall certify and publish such cancel or substitu-
tion and registry, in manner hereinbefore provided in the case of the
original registry of the disused building ; and for every such substitu-
tion the superintendent-registrar shall receive, at the time of the delivery
of the certificate from the party requiring the substitution, the sum of
Si. ; and after such cancel or substitution shall have been made by the
registrar_general it shall not be lawful to solemnize any marriage in such
disused building, unless the same shall be again registered in the manner
hereinbefore provided.
20. That after the expiration of the said period of twenty-one days,
or of seven days if the marriage is by license, marriages may be solem-
nized in the registered building stated as aforesaid in the notice of such
marriage, between and by the parties described in the notice and certifi-
cate, according to such form and ceremony as they may see fit to adopt :
provided, nevertheless, that every such marriage shall be solemnized with
open doors, between the hours of eight and twelve o'clock in the forenoon,
in the presence of some registrar of the district in which such registered
building is situate, and of two or more credible witnesses ; provided also,
that in some part of the ceremony, and in presence of such registrar and
witnesses, each of the parties shall declare—
" I do solemnly declare that I know not of any lawful impediment
why I, A B, may not be joined in matrimony to C D.
And each of the parties shall say to the other, " I call upon these
persons here present so witness, that I, A B, do take thee C D, to be my
lawful wedded wife (or husband)," provided also, that there be no lawful
impediment to the marriage of such parties.
21. That any person who shall object to marry under the provisions of
this Act in any such registhred building may, after due notice and cer.
tifleate issued as aforesaid, contract and solemnize marriage at the office,
and in the presence, of the superintendent_registrar, and some registrar
of the district, and in the presence of two witnesses, with open doors,
and between the hours aforesaid, making the declaration and using the
form of words hereinbefore provided in the case of marriage in any such
registered buildings.
22. That the registrar shall be entitled for every marriage which shall
be solemnised under this Act in his presence to have from the parties
married the sum of 109. if the marriage shall be by license, and other.
wise the sum of ss.
23. And be it enacted, that the registrar shall forthwith register every
marriage solemnised in manner aforesaid in his presence in a mar-
riage register-book to be furnished to.him for that purpose from time
to time by the registrar_general, according to the form provided for
the registration of marriages by an Act made in this present session
of Parliament, entitled " An Act for registering Births, Deaths, and
Marriages in England," the cost of which shall be defrayed in like
manner as the cost of providing register books of births and deaths;
and every entry of such marriage shall he signed by the person by
or before whom the marriage shall have been solemnised, if there shall
be any such person, and by the registrar, and also by the parties married,
and attested by two witnesses ; and every such entry shall be made in
order from the beginning to the end of the book.
24. That in every year, on such days as shall from time to time
be appointed by the registrar general, within one calendar month
next after the Ist day of April, the Ist day of July, the Ist day of
October, and the Ist day of January respectively, every register shall
make and deliver to the superintendent-register of his district a true
copy, certified by him under Isis harid, according to the form of ache.
dule (D) to this Act annexed, of all the entries of marriage in the regis-
ter book kept by him since the last delivery, and the superintendent-
registrar shall verify the same, and if found to be correct shall cer-
tify the same under his hand to be a true copy ; and if there shall
have been no marriage registered since the delivery of the last cer-
tified copy, the registrar shall certify the fact, and such certificate
shall he delivered to the superintendent_registrar as aforesaid, and
countersigned by him ; and the registrar shall keep safely the said re-
gister book until it shall be filled, and shall then deliver it to the super-
intcndent-registrar, to be kept by him with the records of his office.
25. That after any marriage shall have been solemnised it shall not
be necessary in support of such marriage to give any proof of the actual
dwe.ling of either of the parties previous to the marriage within the
district wherein such marriage was solemnised for the time required by
this Act, or of the consent of any person whose consent thereunto is re.
quired by law ; nor shall any evidence be given to prove the contrary
in any suit touching the validity of such marriage.
26. And whereas it is expedient that provision should be made, under
proper restrictions, for relieving the inhabitants of populous districts re-
mote from the parish church, or from any char el wherein marriages may
be lawfully celebrated according to the rites and ceremonies of the
Church of England, from the inconvenience to which they may be
thereby subjected in the solemnisation of their marriages; be it there-
fore enacted, that, with the consent under the hand and seal of the patron
and incumbent respectively of the church of the parish or district in
which may be situated any public chapel with or without a chapelry
thereunto annexed, or any chapel duly licensed for the celebration of
Divine service according to the rites and ceremonies of the Church of
England, or any chapel the Minister whereof is duly licensed to officiate
therein according to the rites and ceremonies of the Church of England,
or without such consent after two calendar months' notice in writing
given by the registrar of the diocese to such patron and incumbent
respectively, the Bishop of the diocese may, if lie shall think
it necessary for the due accommodation and convenience of the in-
habitants, authorise by a license under his hand and seal the so-
lemnisation of marriages any such chapel for persons residing within
a district the limits whereof shall be specified in the Bishop's license,
and under such provisions as to the amount, appropriation, or apportion-
ment of the dues, and as to other particulars, as to the said Bishop
may seem fit, and as may be specified in the said license ; provided that
it shall be lawful for any patron or incumbent who shall refuse or with.
hold consent to the grant of any such license to deliver to the Bishop,
under
,his or her hand and seal, a statement of the reasons for which
such consent shall have been refused or withholden ; and no such license
shall be granted by any Bishop until he shall have inquired into the
matter of such reasons; and every instrument of consent of the patron
and incumbent, or, if such consent be refused or withholder, a copy
of the notice under the hand of the registrar, and every statement of
reasons as alleged aforesaid by the patron or incumbent, with the
Bishop's adjudication thereupon under his hand and seal, shall be re-
gistered in the registry of the diocese ; and thenceforth, and until the
said license be revoked, marriages solemnised in such chapel shall be as
valid to all intents and purposes as if the same had been solemnised in
the parish church, or in any chapel where marriages might heretofore
have been leg oily solemnised.
27. And be it enacted, that all fees, dues, and other emoluments on
account of the solemnization of marriages which belong to the incum-
bent or clerk respectively of any church or chapel in any parish or dis.
trict within which the solemnisation of marriages shall be authorised as
aforesaid shall respectively be received, until the avoidance of such
church or chapel next after the passing of this Act, for and on account
of such incumbent, and until the vacancy in the office of clerk next after
the passing of this Act, fur and on account of such clerk, and be paid
over to them, except such portion of the fees, dues, or other emoluments
as the said Bishop of the diocese, with the consent of the said incumbent
and clerk respectively, shall in such aforesaid license assign to the Mi.
nister and clerk respectively of the chapel in which the solemnisation of
marriages shall be authorised as aforesaid ; and that it shall be lawful for
the said Bishop in and by such license, without any such consent, to de- I
dare that from and after such next avoidance or vacancy respectively the
whole or such part of the fees, dues, and other emoluments on account
of the solemnisation of marriages in such last-mentioned chapel as shall
be specified in such license, shall be receivable, and the same shall thence-
forth be received by or for the Minister and clerk of such chapel respec-
tively.
28. That when the said Bishop shall authorise the solemnisation of
marriages in any such chapel as aforesaid, without the consent under the
hand and seal of the patron and incumbent respectively, it shall be lawful
for them, or either of them, to appeal within one calendar month to the
Archbishop of the province, who shall hear the same in a summary man-
ner, and shall make such order, confirming, revoking, or varying the
license so given, as to him shall seem meet and expedient, which order
shall be registered in the registry of the diocese, and shall be conclusive
and binding on all parties whatsoever.

29. That there shall be placed in some conspicuous part in the inte.
rior of every chapel in respect of which such license shall be given as
aforesaid a notice in the words following :—" Marriages may be solem-
nised in this chapel."

311 That all provisions which shall from time to time be in forte re.

lative to marriages, and to providing, keeping, and transmitting register.
books and copies of registers of marriages solemnised in any parish
church, shall extend to any chapel in which the solemnisation of mar-
riages shall be authorised as aforesaid, in the same manner as if the
same were a parish church, and everything required by law to be done
relating thereto by the Rector, Vicar, Curate, or Churchwardens respec-
tively of any parish church shall be done by the officiating Minister,
chapelwarden, or other person exercising analogous duties in such
chapel respectively.
31. Provided always, that, notwithstanding any such license as afore.
said to solemnise marriages in any such chapel, the parties may, if they
think fit, have their marriage solemnised in the parish church, or in
any chapel in which heretofore the marriage of such parties, or either of
them, might have been legally solemnised.

32. That any such licence or order may at any time be reTeked by
writing under the hand and seal of the Bishop of the diocese, with the
consent in writing of the Archbishop of the province; and such revo.
cation and consent shall be registered in the registry of the diocese, the
registrar whereof shall notify the same in writing to the Minister ofli.
ciating in the chapel, and shall also give public notice thereof by adver.
tisement in some newspaper circulating within the county, and in the
London Gazette, and thenceforth the authority to solemnise marriages
in such chapel shall cease and determine.

33. That in case of the revocation of the license to solemnise mar-
riages in any such chapel all registers of marriages solemnised therein
under such license, which shall be in the custody or possession of the
Minister of such chapel at the time of such revocation, shall forthwith
be transmitted to the incumbent or officiating Minister of the parish
church, and shall thenceforth be preserved, and in all other respects
dealt with in the same manner, and be of the same force and validity,
to all intents and purposes, as if they had been originally made and de-
posited with such incumbent or officiating Minister; and that such
incumbent or Minister shall, when he next transmits to the superintend-
ent-registrar copies of the registers of marriages solemnised in such
parish church, also therewith transmit copies of all such entries as shall
have been made in such first-mentioned registers subsequent to the
date of the last entry, a copy whereof was transmitted to the superin-
tendent registrar, and shall also transmit to him one copy of every re-
gister book an transmitted to him of which no copy shall have been al-
ready transmitted to the superintendent-registrar, having first signed his
name at the foot of the last entry therein.

34. That the registrar of every diocese shall within fifteen days
after the said first day of March, and also within fifteen days after
the Ist of January in every succeeding year, make out and send
through the Post Office, directed to the registrar-general of births,
deaths, and marriages, at his office, a list of all chapels belonging to
the Church of England within that diocese wherein marriages may
lawfully be solemnized according to the rites and ceremonies of the
Church of England, and shall distinguish in such list which have a
parish, chapelry, or other recognised ecclesiastical division annexed to
them, and which are chapels licensed by the Bishop under this Act,
and shall state therein the district fur which each of such chapels
is licensed according to the description thereof in the license;
and the registrar-general shall in every year make out and cause to
be printed a list •of all such chapels, and also of all places of public
worship registered under the provisions of this Act,. and shall state in
such list the county and registrar's district within which each chapel or

reg Play
istered building is situated, and shall add also the names and
abode of the registrars and deputy-registrars of each district, a
thesuperintendent-registrars, and a copy of such list shall be sent to
registrar and superintendent-registrar.
35. That every marriage solemnised under this Act shall be godeti.
cognisable in like manner as marriages before the passing of this
cording to the rites of the Church of England. .aerrlrge
36. That it shall be lawful for the registrar before whoM an Y roes
is solemnised according to the provisions of this Act to ask
of the
to be married the several particulars required to be registered toll a"
such marriage.
is 37. That every person who shall enter a caveat with the supeecs „„
dent-registrar against the grant of any license or issue of any ccruti,
on grounds which the registrar-general shall declare to be frivolo ;Die
that they ought not to obstruct the grant of the license, shall bered in $
for the costs of the proceedings, and for damages, to be rev)/e such
special action upon the case by the party against whose marriage
caveat shall have been entered. make ant
38. That every person who shall knowingly and wilfully ols
false declaration or sign any false notice or certificate required „b 1 who
Act, for the purpose of procuring any marriage, and
shall forbid the issue of any superintendent-registrar's certificasi„
by
falsely representing himself or herself to be a person whose consent t 0
everY Perl"e,
such marriage is required by law, knowing such representation
false, shall suffer the penaltiehs of perjury. thSil
March,
39. That every person wo, after the said Ist day of
knowingly and wilfully solemnize any marriage in England, ttcePeor-
special license, In any other place than a church or chapel in Woof
ria,ies may be solemnized according to the rites of the Church notice
land, or than the registered building or office specified in the in
the
and certificate as aforesaid, shall be guilty of felony (excePot " 0011
case of a marriage between two of the Society of Friends' c Inetween
called Quakers, according to the usages of the said society, or °she
two persons professing the Jewish religion, according to the usagesr Ace
Jews) ; and every person who in any such registered building
Shall knowingly and wilfully solemnize any marriage in the abet;is
a registrar of the district in which such registered building ornoolno
situated shall be guilty of felony ; and every person who shall klstday
and wilfully solemnize any marriage in England after the saide
petitsof March (except by license) within 21 days after the entry of thby
li-
to the superintendent-registrar, as aforesaid, or if the marriage r
nos
cense, within seven days after such entry, or after three calendar
aft4o.s er uch entry shall be guilty of felony. tree That every superintendent-registrar who shall knowingly ~ tree ca'
fully issue any certificate for marriage after the expiration of r"'nfere-
lendar months after the notice shall have been entered by On °owl of
said, or any certificate for marriage by license before the elPi..°' rage
seven days after the entry of the notice, or any certificate for '—he entry
vithout license, before the expiration of twenty-one days after t'Lli for.
of the notice, or any certificate the issue of which shall hare b`-nolie
bidden as aforesaid, by any person authorised to forbid the issueer sof
registrar's certificate, or who shall knowingly and wilfully reffiL wao
marriage herein declared to be null and void; and every regint
shall knowingly and wilfully issue any license for marriage afie,„ar
piration of three calendar month, after the notice shall hare w"
Wl4ll
tered by the registrar as aforesaid, or who shall knowing'', und is void'
in his office any marriage herein declared to be null °-
shall be guilty of felony.
red With'
41. That every prosecution under this Act shall be comment
in the space of three years after the offence committed. r a age
42. That if any person shall knowingly and wilfully interrea'„"l, sof
the said first day of March under the provisions of this Act ce, et
place other than the church, chapel, registered building, or without
other
place specified in the notice and certificate aforesaid, or as
due notice to the superintendent-registrar, or without certificate 'ijoe,
tice duly issued, or without license, in case a license is necesonloistrat,
this Act, or in the absence of a registrar or su rintendentinw
where thepresence of a registrar or superintendent registrar n-eVert;
under this Ac•, the marriage of such persons, except in anlif
Mailer excepted, shall be null and void ; provided always,
herein contained shall extend to annul any marriage legally year
raised according to the provisions of an Act passed in the ibu dd
the
of his late Majesty George IV., entitled " An Act for Olen"-
laws ri;pecting the solemnization of Marriages in England: Os
_„°.
43. That if any valid marriage shall be had under the PO' ens
this Act by means of any wilfully false notice, certificate, or sleCA' $ no'
made by either party to such marriage, as to any matter to whi;il,lo
tice, certificate, or declaration is herein required, it shall be IL
his Majesty's Attorney-General or Solicitor-General to sue ~aallee
feiture of all estate and interest in any property accruing to the ot.vconsea
party by such marrirge ; and the proceedings thereupon aned Wit!,
quences thereof shall be the same as are provided in the like
regard to marriages solemnised by license before the passing of
th
according to the rites of the Church of England. tee
44. That this Act shall be taken to be part of the said Act WO;
tering births, deaths, and marriages, as fully and effectually aale sat
porated therewith, and that all the provisions and penalties cols'
0 Act relating to any registrar or register of marriages, or ,413-0 til,u;
thereof, shall betaken to extend to the registrars and registers_/ so f'"
riages to be solemnised under this Act and to the certified thereof'
as the same are applicable thereunto. ter°
45. That this Act shall extend only to England, and shall ne"
to the marriage of any of the Royal Family.
rialiSf
REGISTRATION of BIRTHS, DEA

AND MARRIAGES.

;eeiyøJ

The following are the clauses of this Act which re
the Royal assent on the 17th ult ill., C.
1. This clause merely repeals so much of the Acts of Gefaes•
146, and 4 Geo. IV., c, 76, as relates to the registration of mat"ogire',;:
2. That it shall be lawful for his Majesty to provide a proper owe,
London or Westminster, to be called " The General RePster bis Se;
for keeping a register of all births, deaths, and marriages f 0004
jetty's subjects in England, and to appoint for the said office desdi
Great Seal of the United Kingdom a registrar-general of births,
and marriages in England, and from time to time, at
the said registrar_general and appoint some other person in his ssiestio
3. That the Lord Treasurer or Lords Commissioners of ec, to to,
Treasury, or any three of them, or the registrar-general, ;MO to
approval of the said Lords Commissioners, shall appoint, fr°'"oo36_o.
time, such officers, clerks, and servants as they shall deem nee ore
carry on the business of the general registry office, and at Pie!, Core:,
move them or any of them ; and the said Lord Treasurer or LeL"-e, fisP;
pleasure,
toer;
missioners shall fix the salary of the registrar.general, so that To
shall not at any time exceed the sum of 1,0001. yearly, and shalooDe‘
salaries of the officers, clerks, and servants in fit proportion, 3
to the duties they may have to perform.
;A fge. eel'
4. That the salaries of the registrar-general, and of the sas--
clerks, and servants, and the amount of the sums hereinafter V eersr
to be paid to the superintendent-registrars for every entry in %eoil
fled copies of the registers, and all expenses of carrying on the
fits'
paid the general registry office not herein otherwise provided for, Or,
paid by the said Lord Treasurer or Lords Commissioners 0/1 Josow
jetty's Treasury out of the Consolidated Fund of the United
of Great Britain and Ireland.
or the
:11.010 5. That one of his Majesty's principal Secretaries of state,
xegistrar_general, with the approbation of such principal Secret
goo"
Time to time may make regulations for the management or th
offiae.,_lfr
gister office, and for the duties of the registrar-general, clerks, fitrai;•
and servants of the said office, and of the registrars, deputy-Oa-00e,
and superintendent-registrars hereinafter mentioned, in the elecntioetj
this Act so that they be not contrary to the provisions herein the _l
and the regulations so made and approved shall be binding nneAstil'.
registrar-general, clerks, officers, and servants, and on the I
deputy-registrars, and superintendent-registrars. , to Ole of
6. That the registrar-general shall send once in veil' Yrober ;0
the principal Secretaries of State a general abstract of then
rot,
sop
births, deaths, and marriages registered during the foregeing4o;
such form as the said Secretary from time to time shall re'll'ot.olii"
every such annual general abstract shall be laid before Parlialre'root
one month after receipt thereof, or after the meeting of rolithi, pow.
7. That the guardians of every union declared under
eg ent
.trp
sions of an Act passed in the sth and 6th years of his
jetty, entitled, " An Act for the Amendment and better A; yolid
tion of the Laws relating to the Poor in England and •IP-of
of every parish or place in which a board of guardians shall
40000:
established under the provisions of the last-named Act, ,t 0
before the Ist day of October in this year, if the said boas i 0 Act, td,
dians shall have been established before the passing of tha 12,°$01i0
within three calendar months next after the establishment of orge'
ifthe said board shall not have been established before the a~eyore
Act, divide the union or the perish or place of which t- 0 the on
guardians into such and so many districts as they, subject:oh dir.s.-0,
proval of the registrar_general, shall think fit ; and every smote 111'016
when made shall be published by the guardians withilt.os tb.,,,je
parish, or place of which they are guardians, in such inanr,,l-„, si:ooa
registrar-general shall direct; and every such district shis..l"-egsPeol
a distinct name, and shall be a registrar's district ; and._tborsgen,
shall appoint a person, with such qualifications as the reit. _distr.: irs
may, by any general rule, declare to be necessary, to be Wofer;
births and deaths within each district, and in every case d tbe Col
the office of registrar shall forthwith fill up the vacancy; if Ole"
to the guardians of every such union, parish, or place abaft, the of
think fit to accept such office, and have such qualificationae,. De ilk
trar-general may by any general rule declare to be rle 3"foisl°r die'
superintendent-registrar thereof; and in the event able refit
aPe,rola
qualification to act in that capacity the guardians shall alirs elera`.4oo,
with such qualifications as the registrar-general may by anYgoeb°"-
declare to be necessary to be the superintendent-registrar ei ogiee
or of such parish or place, and in every case of vacancy °f ttapd °ed
tee
superintendent-registrar shall forthwith fill up the vacancy aria
registrar and superintendent-registrar shall hold his elfie* of
pleasure of the registrar.general. Ow!
8. Provided that in every case in which the clerk to the r
officeuch 04
a
the union, parish, or place, or any other officer of anYd:hsli 1
parish, or place, shall hold any office under this Act, an 0 rifi•
moved by the Poor Law Commissioners from his office ce in
or supe
parish, or place, and in every case in which any regietrerad 010.00
tendent.registrar shall be removed by the regi'trar-geenorthWittie:rei°
office under this Act, notice of such removal shall be -
unty w-
inch per.
by advertisement in some newspaper circulating in the e°very
the district for which such officer may act shall be; and every
sad sr
son shall thenceforth cease to hold his office under this Act' Pa' of
be incapable of being re-appointed thereto; provided altso,llo' t if; 0
pointment of any officer of any such union, parish, ,Phe the
office under this Act, shall be subject to the approval ofre,
wet to
Commissioners, except as hereinbefore directed with
°
-'On
ce
9. to guardians of any such union, parish, or place.
of the -00;sas
9. That the guardians shall provide and uphold, out
regietererf;
coming to their hands or controul as such guardians, for yea
01 ; lol7'
g/
according to a plan to be approved by the registrar_genera. 0
nro ._„os
ing the registers to be deposited therein, as hereinafter ,e
the care of the said office and the custody of the regithe toe"'
therein shall be given to the superintendent.registrar o.l_
parish, or place, having a board of guardians as aforesaid: vow a-. 00.,
10. That the Poor Law Commissioners for England and All 01e
frora post 01
as soon as may be after the said Ist day bf October, ifi 00 0
riches, townships, and places in England, in or for nrolia
guardians shall not have been then established under ia`„S,, off S. tbse
the said Act for the amendment of the laws relating tothwe'reo'
ttrusrt
temporary districts, having regard in the formation _t r,d;iejoreie"
boundaries of parishes and townships, and shall apPeloect t etiet;
each of such temporary districts, subject to being di*P.,,,fici°„otar,
after provided; and the registrar-general shall appoint a_;t.t sad 000'
ber of fit persons to be superintendent registrars for sided
districts, subject to being displaced as hereinafter lanv ,
appoint the districts which each shall superintend. slyly
11. That in every case in which a board of guar .flan`dpoitol
blished under the provisions of the said Act for the On"' i.ee nte
• or P"- .01 -pa
laws relating to the poor, in or for any parish, townships I. stir sod
part of any temporary district in or for which a registrar°ol pres!iii e
dent-registrar shall have been previously appointed as last d for eris;
as soon as a registrar or registrars shall have been apPeinre ; 00 °r Of
tricts into which the guardians shall have divided the tin loge oce
or place of which they are guardians as aforesaid, and thet, 0°,041 a
guardians of such union, parish, or place shall have the
of superintendent-registrar, or the sacl guardians shall have 'lO 10 lace
accept
„wane , OP 0.
superintendent-registrar for such districts, in like
pa
unions formed before the passing of this Act, every such i WS,ritPteoi
shall cease to be a part of the temporary district to 2., del op
nexed by the Poor Law Commissioners, and every rego", elec:_io, or
gistrar, and superintendent-registrar appointed beforost7tnt ;00
such board of guardians as aforesaid in or for such Parish
place shall cease to hold their respective offices, se far a
aesttie
parish, township, or place, unless re-appointed.
f h'irtha
12. That for every district for which a registrar of birth
,121,
shall be appointed by the guardians, as aforesaid, the !!!eyeeffolo
power, subject to the approval of such guardians, iln'irose (7,004
for which a registrar shall be appointed by the said Poor
e 01,,,„
sioners such registrar shall have power, subject to the Inert.; tee
commissioners, to appoint by writing under his hand
ner-401. fig. a
as his deputy in case of the illness or unavoidabl!abse

tray; and every such deputy-registrar whilst so acting shall have all the
Powers and duties and be subject to all the provisions and penalties
herein declared concerning registrars, and in case of the death of the re-
gistrar shall act as registrar until another registrar is appointed ; and
every registrar shall be civilly responsible for the acts or omissions of his
deputy.
13. That the appointments of registrars, deputy registrars, and su.
Perintendent.registrars, and the duplicates and certified copies of regis-
ter hereinafter mentioned, shall be exempt from all stamp duties.
14. That the registrar-general_ shall furnish to every superintendent_
registrar, for the use of the registrars under his superintendence, a
sufficient number of strong iron boxes to hold the register books to be
tent by
such registrar; and every such box shall be furnished with a
lock and two keys and no more; and one of such keys shall be kept by
the registrar, and the other key shall be kept by the superintendent-
registrar ; and the register books of each district, while in the custody
of the registrar and not in use, shall be always kept in the register box,
and the register box shall always be left locked.
15. That in every case in which any registrar or superintendent_
registrar shall be removed from or cease to hold the said office, all re-
.guisrther boxes, keys, books, documents, and papers in his possession as
registrar or superintendent-registrar, shall be given as soon as con-
veniently may be to his successor in office; and if any person shall re_
Arse to give up any such box, key, books, documents, or papers, in such
ease as aforesaid, it shall be lawful for any justice of the peace ibr the
"Linty or other jurisdiction where such person shall be or reside, upon
aPPlication made for that purpose, to issue a warrant under his hand
and seal for bringing such person before any two justices of the peace
for the said county or other jurisdiction, and upon such person not appear_
I_llg, or not being found, it shall be lawful for such justices to hear and
determine the matter in a summary way; and if it shall appear to the
Jeeessttiody o
cos thrat any such box, key, books, documents, or papers, are in the
Lull Power of any such person, and that he has refused or wit_
neglected to deliver the same, the said justices are hereby required
to committhe such offender to the common gaol or house of correction for
shsaid county or jurisdiction, there to remain without bail until he
all have delivered up the same, or until satisfaction shall have been
liven in respect thereof to the person in whose custody the same ought
be,tet) be; ; and the said justices may grant a warrant to search for such
• key, books, documents, or papers, as in the case of stolen goods, in
shad
Prove unon oath before them that there is a reasonable cause to
,g."Oect the same to be; and the same when found shall be delivered to
me. person in whose custody they ought to be.
„ In. That every registrar and deputy.registrar shall dwell within
Pidistrict of which he is registrar or deputy-registrar, and shall cause
a name, with the addition of registrar or deputy-registrar, (as the
P.ace
may be) for the district for which he shall be so appointed to be
ded some conspicuous place on or near the outer door of his own
elelling-house; and the superintendent-registrar shall cause to be
°f of
and published in the districts which he shall
superintend a list
the name and place of abode of every registrar and deputy-registrar
under his superintendence.
l? • That the registrar-general shall cause to be printed, on account
of
the Said Registrar Office, a sufficient number of register books for
niakin •
jct._ g entries of all births, deaths, and marriages of his Majesty's sub-
, 's in England, according to the forms of schedules (A) (B) (C) to this
Act annexed; and the said register books shall be of durable materials,
•and hi them shall be printed upon each side of every leaf the heads of
eirrtnation herein required to be known and registered of births, deaths,
Slid marriages respectively; and every page of each of such books shall
slutnumbered progressively from the beginning to the end, beginning with
b:oberand every place of entry shall be also numbered progres-
velY from- the beginning to the end of the book, beginning with num-
ne ; and every entry shall be divided from the following entry by a
Printed line.
18. That the registrar-general shall furnish to every superintendent-
registrar' for the u e of the registrars under his superintendence, a
sefteient number of register books of births and of register books of
deaths
„ and of forms of certified copies thereof, as hereinafter provided,
jet.
reasonable price, to. be fixed from time to time by one of his Ma-
theLlues Principal Secretaries of State, the cost whereof shall be borne by
is up Principal
parish, or place in or for which the superintendent-registrar
appointed, and shall be paid by the guardians or by the churchwardens
hands
ee the case may he) out of the monies coming to their
.e,sieids or controul as such guardians or churchwardens and overseers, to
ta registrar, and shall be accounted for by him to the registrar. general;
andlihs!v.e_ry registrar shall be authorised and is hereby required to inform
carefully of every birth and every death which shall happen
thin his district after the said Ist day of March, and to learn and re-
"Ler as soon after the event as conveniently may be done, without fee
tit reward, save as hereinafter mentioned, in one of the said books, the
Patticulars required to d according to the forms in the said
ten, schedules (A) and (B) respectively touching every such birth or every
ech death, as the case may be, which shall not have been already regis-
eted. every such entry being made in order from the beginning to the
*NI of the book,
12. That the father or mother of any child born, or the occupier
ev
house or tenement in England in which any birth or death
shall happen afrer the said Ist day of March, may, within 42 days next
deer the day of such birth, or within
ve days after the day of such
fie
foate: respectively, give notice of such birth or death to the registrar of
e district; and in case any new-born child or any dead body shall be
Ulla exposed the overseers of the poor in the case of the new born
,schild, and the coroner in the case of the dead body, shall forthwith give
notice and information thereof, and of the place where such child or
dead body was found, to the registrar; and for the purpose of this Act
te Master or keeper of every gaol, prison, or house of correction, or
workhouse, hospital, or lunatic asylum, or public or charitable institu-
thin, shall be deemed the occupier thereof.
20. That the father or mother of every child horn in England after
the said Ist of March, or, in case of the death, illness, absence, or ina-
I.f
phtch y of the father or mother, the occupier of the house or tenement in
such child shall have been born, shall, within 4e days next after
tosae
do day of every sueh birth, give information, upon being requested so
, to the said registrar, according to the best of his or her knowledge
et belief, of the several particulars hereby required to be known and re-
thtered touching the birth of such child.
21. That if any child of an English parent shall be born at sea on
"'lard of a British vessel the captain or commanding officer of the vessel
en board of which the said child shall have been born shall forthwith
illake a minute of the several particulars hereinbefore required to be in-
setted in the register touching the birth of such child, so far as the same
maybe known, and the namo of the vessel wherein the birth took place,
d~od
shall, on the arrival of such vessel in any port of the United King-
or by any other sooner opportunity, send a certificate of the said
'aintite through the Post Office to the registrar-general, who shall file
;°r
aie same, and enter a copy thereof under his hand in a book to be kept
that purpose in " the General Register Office," to be called the
Marine Register Book," and shall keep the said book with the other
haters, according to the provisions of this Act.
~ 22. That after the expiration of forty-two days following the day of
Ige birth of any child it shall not be lawful for any registrar to register
;',acls birth, save as hereinafter is next mentioned : provided, that, in case
;Elise. birth of any child shall not have been registered according to the Pro-
hereinbefore contained, it shall be lawful for any person present
e oath of such child, or for the father or guardian thereof, at any
deee within six calendar months next after the birth, to make a solemn
.--'ration of the particulars required to be known touching the birth of
it42l child, according to the best of his or her knowledge and belief, and
ebYaaith ereupon he lawful for the said registrar then and there, in the
ea:ence of the superintendent-registrar, to register the birth of the said
ild according to the information of the person making the said decla-
Nee ; and in every such case the superintendant.registrar before whom
reßis,sid declaration is made shall sign the entry of the birth, as well as the
-41.ar; and for every such registry as last aforesaid the superindent-
tleltstrar shall be entitled to have a fee of 2s. Gd from the person requiring
ii,esf)sat he to be registered ; and the registrar, over and above the fee here_
till enacted in respect of every birth registered by him, shall be en-
:tu. Unless the delay shall have been occasioned by his default, to have
teeeei '4s'. from the person requiring the same to be registered ; and no
child ter of births shall be given in evidence to prove the birth of any
ex, wherein it shall appear that forty-two days have intervened be-
ech Use -day of the registration of the birth of
Suet, day of the birth and the
tray e"ilde, Unless the entry shall bd signed by the superintendent-regis-
gist: and every person who shall knowingly register or cause to be re_
meat the birth of any child, otherwise than hereinbefore is last
theVieed, after the expiration of forty-two days following the day of
tot birth
f s
ouc
501 h c.hild, shall forfeit and pay for every such offence a sum
2 4Ceedirig
shirth*,34at after the expiration of six calendar months following the
cieth "'calla' child it shall not be lawful for any registrar to register the
ellileeetsuch child, and no register of births, except in the case of
seltildb at sea, shall be given in evidence to prove the birth of any
oetweeerein it shall appear that six calendar months have intervened
hoots the day of the birth and the day of the registration. of the
Cal,,,ee;el such child ; and every person who shall knowingly register o. r
Calem be registered the birth of any child after the expiration of six
Zeit a,,,.4 ,st Months flowin the day of the birth of sch chil
24 PaY for every such offence a sum not exceedingu 50/.d shall for_
Nis.; That if any child born in England, whose birth shall have been
to Obsei.ejed as aforesaid shall, within six calender months next after it
es-ave been so registered, have any name given to it in baptism,
riesee''`rent or guardian of such child, or other person procuring such
keel, te be given, may, within seven days next after such baptism
,
Ishe,,:e and deliver to the registrar, or superintendant.registrar,
in
Custody the register of the birth of the child may then happen to
aneea ertificate, according to the form of schedule (G) to this Act
skiapts,„,• eel, Sighed by the Minister who.. shad! have performed the rite of
'Oet,s7, which certificate such Minister is hereby required to deliver
°4l,,,,Latela after the baptism, whenever the same shall be demanded,
eeive''"ebt of the fee of Is. which he shall be therefore entitled to re.
of
eoand the said registrar, or superintendent-registrar, upon receipt
the•l
‘ certificate, and on the payment of the fee of Is. which he
by °ri
!e therefore entitled to receive, shall, without any erasure of
seee entry, forthwith register therein that the child was baptised
certio " name, and the registrar shall thereupon certify upon the said
asid seeate the additional entry so made, and shall forthwith send the
2s litleate, through the Post-Office, to the registrar.general.
last That some person present at the death or in attendance during the
el' la ness of every person dying in England, after the Ist day of March,
oce,,plase of the death, illness, inability, or default of all such persons, the
Shall bet of the house or tenement, or if the occupier be the person who
elesth .4,ve died, some inmate of the house or tenement in which such
such gall have happened, shall, within eight days next after the day of
tellisti.e,stli, give information, upon being requested so to do, to the said
Several -4' according to the best of his or her knowledge and belief, of the
the de„lisatticUlars hereby required to be known and registered touchinas g
t n ()flinch person; provided always, that_in every case in which
stlasrtiettrasrt shall be held on any dead body the jury shall inquire of the
noe toren: herein required to be registered concerning the death, and
leitittrar et shall inform the registrar of the finding of the jury, and the
2te 'all Make the entry accordingly.
ooaed
OfThat ;
a •of any of his Majesty's English subjects shall die at sea on
a°lllloard-n,'!titish vessel the captain or commanding officer of the vessel
mho
hers'whch such death shall have happened shall forthwith make
th of everal particulars hereinbefore required to be inserted
44,1,1 nester touching such death, so far as the same may be known,
ane arrieof the vessel wherein the death took place, and shall, on
till ether of such vessel in any port of the United Kingdom, or by
sa "Ugh thseener oPportunity, send a certificate of the said minute,
toea,l4
_sost Office, to the registrar.genera.l, who shall file. the
and 'kilter a
ee Copy thereof under his hand in the marine register
lee, or this rho same with the other registers, according to the pro-
-27, se, Ace
na t Query registrar immediately upon registering any death,
teward thereatee • lea , deli, ras lie shall be required so to do, shall, without fee or
erai e
cerarg to the undertaker or other person having charge of the
;4%) to this ificate under his hand, according to the form of schedule
th certific et annexed, that such death has been duly registered, and
"e Nato_ ate shall be delivered by such undertaker or other person to
brut ...et et officiating person who shall be required to bury or to
lifatiey d,,,,`LIY religious service for the burial of the dead body ; and if
11.0 b°dy shall be buried for which no such certificate shall have sell • uellvered
Peale service Coif, the person who shall bury or perform any funeral or any
,Isegalstrar for the burial shall forthwith give notice thereof to the
Provided always, that the coroner, upon holding any inquest,
theY stoer
ing
death e body to be buried if he shall think fit, before registry of
and shall in such case give a certificate of his order in. writ_
rider his hand 71:teed,
u, according to the form of schedule (F) to this Act
7r al ndertakei or other person having charge of the fu.
b.
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shall be delivered as aforesaid ; and every. person who
of erYor perform any funeral or any religious service for the burial
a, °3' dead se,
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at, c no certificate shall have been duly made
a -.tain
seven °resent, either by registrar or coroner, and who shall
lid pay any su
days give notice thereof to the registrar, shall forfeit
tint exceeding 101, for every such offence.
le 4' That e
..ts!er of birytherY person by whom the information contained in any
;I a Lis
name,
door death under this Act shall have been given shall
eiget of birth oscription, and place of abode in the reglster ; and no
'sense
whi
oftanrdeah according to this Act shall be given in evi-
ct, be signed by some person professing to be the

informant, and to be such party as is herein required to give such infor.
mation to the registrar.
29. That every registrar shall make out an account four times in
every year of the number of births and deaths which he shall have re-
gistered since the last quarterly account, and the superintendent-re-
gistrar shall verify and sign the same ; and the guardians or overseers of
the parish, township, or place in or for which he shall be registrar, on
production of the said account so verified and signed, shall pay to the
said registrar, out of the monies in their hands or power as such guar.
dians or overseers such sums as he shall be entitled to receive on the
said account according to the following scale (that is to say)—for the
first 20 entries of births and deaths in every year which he shall have
registered, whether the same be of births or of deaths indiscriminately,
2s. 6d. each, and Is. for every subsequent entry of births or deaths in
each year; and in the case of an union the said several sums shall be
charged to the account of the parishes in which such births or deaths
respectively shall have occurred.
30. That the registrar general shall furnish or cause to be furnished
to the Rector, Vicar, or Curate of every church and chapel in England
wherein marriages may lawfully be solemnised, and also to every person
whom the recording clerk of the Society of Friends, commonly called
Quakers, at their central office in London, shall from time to time cer-
tify in writing under his hand to the registrar general to be a register-
ing officer in England of the said society, and also to every person whom
the president for the time being of the London committee of deputies
of the British Jews shall from time to time certify in writing under his
hand to the registrar-general to he the secretary of a synagogue in
England of persons professing the Jewish religion, a sufficient number
in duplicate of marriage register books, and forms for certified copies
thereof, as hereinafter provided ; and the cost of all such books and
forms shall be paid by the churchwardens and overseers of the parish or
chapelry out of the monies in their hands as such churchwardens or
overseers, or by the registering officer or secretary respectively to whom
the same shall be furnished.
31. That every Clergyman of the Church of England immediately
after every office of matrimony solemnised by him, shall register in
duplicate in two of the marriage register books the several particulars
relating to that marriage, according to the form of the said schedule
(C), and every such registering officer of the Quakers, as soon as con-
veniently may be after the so'enmisation of any marriage between two
Quakers in the district for which he is registering officer, and every
such secretary of a synagogue, immediately after every marriage so-
lemnised between any two persons professing the Jewish religion, of
whom the husband shall belong to the synagogue whereof he is secre-
tary, shall register or cause to be registered in duplicate in two of the

said marriage register books the several particulars relating to that mar-
riage according to the form of the said schedule (C) : and every such
registering officer or secretary, whether he shall or shall not be pre.

•
sent at such marriage, shall satisfy himself that the proceedings in re-
lation thereto have been conformable to the usages of the said society,
or of the persons professing the Jewish religion, as the case may be;
and every such entry as hereinbefore is mentioned (whether made by
such Clergyman, or by such registering officer or secretary respectively
as aforesaid) shall be signed by the clergyman, or by the said registering
officer or secretary, as the case may be and by the parties married,
and by two witnesses, and shall be made in order from the beginning to
the end of each book, and the number of the place of entry in each
duplicate marriage register book shall be the same.
32.. That in the months of April, July, October, and January, on such
days as shall from time to time be appointed by the registrar-general,
every registrar shall make, and deliver to the superintendent-registrar of
his disOict, on durable materials, a true copy, certified by him under his
hand, according to the form of Schedule (D) to this Act annexed, of all the
entries of births and deaths in the register book kept by him since the last
certificate, the first of such certificates to be given in the month of July,
1837, and to contain all the entries made up to that time; and the su.
perintendent-registrar shall verify the same, and, if found to be correct,
shall certify the same under his hand to be a true copy; and if there
shall have been no birth or death registered since the last certificate, the
registrar shall certify the fact, and such certificate shall be delivered to
the superintendent registrar as aforesaid, and countersigned by him; and
the registrar shall keep s*ly each of the said register books until it shall
be filled, and shall then deliver it to the superintendent-registrar, to be
kept by him with the records of his office.
33. That the Rector, Vicar, or Curate of every such church and
chapel, and every such registering officer and secretary shall, in the
months of April, July, October, and January respectively, make and
deliver to the superintendent-registrar of the district in which such
church or chapel may be situated, or which may be assigned by the
registrar-general to such registering officer or secretary, on durable
materials, a true copy certified by him under his hand of all the entries
of marriages in the register-book kept by him since the last certificate,

the first of such certificates to be given in the month of July, 1837, and
to contain all the entries made up to that time, and if there shall have
been no marriage entered therein since the last certificate, shall certify
the fact under his hand, and shall keep the said marriage register
books safely until the same shall be filled ; and une copy of every such
register book, when filled, shall be delivered to the superintendent-
registrar of the district in which such church or chapel may be situated,
or which shall have been assigned as aforesaid to such registering
officer or secretary, and the other copy of every such register book kept
by any such Rector, Vicar, or Curate, shall remain in the keeping of
such Rector, Vicar, or Curate, and shall be kept by him with the re-
gisters of baptisms and burials of the parish or chapelry within which
the marriages registered therein shall have been solemnized; and the
other copy of every such register book of marriages among the
people called Quakers, and among persons professing the Jewish religion
respectively, shall remain under the care of the said people or persons
respectively, to be kept with their other registers and records, and shall
for the purposes of this Act be still deemed to be in the keeping of the
registering officer or secretary for the time being respectively.
14. That every superintendent_registrar shall, four times in every
year, on such days as shall be therefore named by the registrar.general,
send to the registrar-general all the certified copies of the registers of
births, deaths, and marriages, which he shall have so received during
the three calendar months next preceding such quarterly days of trans-
mission respectively; and if it shall appear, by interruption of the re-
gular progression of numbers or otherwise, that the copy of any part
of any book has not been duly delivered to him, he shall procure, as
far as possible, consistently with the provisions of this Act, that the
same may be remedied and supplied ; and every such superintendent_
registrar shall be entitled to receive the sum of 2d. for every entry in
such certified copies; and every superintendent-registrar shall make out
an account four times in every year of the number of entries in the
certified copies sent to him during the last quarter, and the certified
copies so sent to the General Registry Office shall be thereafter kept in
tne said office in such order and manner as the registrar-general, under
the direction of the Secretary of State, shall think fit, so that the same
may be most readily seen and examined.

35. That every rector, ♦icar, or curate, and every registrar, register-
ing officer, and secretary, who shall have the keeping for the time being
of any register book of births, deaths, or marriages, shall at all reason-
able times allow searches to be made of any register books in his keeping,
and shall give a copy, certified under his hand, of any entry or entries in
the same, on payment of the fee hereinafter mentioned (that is to say)—
for every search extending over a period not more than one year, the
sum of Is., and 6d. additional for every additional year, and the sum of
2s. 6d. for every single certificate.
36. That every superintendent-registrar shall cause indexes of the re-
gister books in his office to be made, and kept with the other records of
his office; and that every person shall be entitled at all reasonable hours
to search the said indexes, and to have a certified copy of any entry or
entries in the said register books under the hand of the superintendent_
registrar, on payment of the fees hereinafter mentioned (that is to say)__
for every general search the sum of ss„ and for every particular search
the sum of Is., and for every such certified copy the sum of 2s. 6d.
37. That the registrar general shall cause indexes of all the said cer-
tited copies of the registers to be made and kept in the general register
office; and that every person shall be entitled on payment of the fees
hereinafter mentioned, to search the said indexes between the hours of
ten in the morning and four in the afternoon of every day, except Sun-
days, Christmas Day, and Good Friday, and to have a certified copy of
any entry in the said certified copies of the registers; and for every
general search of the said indexes shall be paid the sum of 201., and for
every particular search the sum of Is., and for every such certified copy
the sum of Qs. 6d., and no more, shall be paid to the registrar-general, or
such other officer as shall be appointed for that purpose on his account.
38. That the registrar general shall cause to be made a seal of the
said register office, and the registrar-general shall cause to be scaled or
stamped therewith all certified copies of entries given in the said office;
and 4,11 certified copies of entries purporting to be sealed or stamped with
the seal of the said register office shall be received as evidence of the
birth, death, or marriage to which the same relates, without any further
or other proof of such entry; and no certified copy purporting to be
given in the said office shall be of any force or effect which is not sealed
or stamped as aforesaid.

39. That every sum received under the provisions of this Act by or
on account of the registrar general shall be accounted for and paid by
the registrar-general, at such time as the Lords Commissioners of the
Treasury from time to time shall direct, into the Bank of England, to
the credit of his Majesty's Exchequer, according to the provisions of
an Act passed in the fourth and fifth years of his Majesty, entitled,
" An Act to regulate the Office of Receipt of his Majesty's Exchequer
at Westminster."

40. That it shall be lawful for every Clergyman of the Church of
of England who shall solemnize any marriage in England, and for every
registering officer of the Quaker, and every secretary of a Synagogue,
after the Ist day of March, to ask of the parties married the several
particulars herein required to be registered touching such marriage.
41. That every person who shall wilfully make, or cause to be made,
for the purpose of being inserted in any register of birth, death, or mar-
riage, any false statement touching any of the particulars herein re..
quired to be known and registered, shall be subject to the same pains and
penalties as if he were guilty of perjury.
42. That every person who shall refuse, or, without reasonable cause
omit, to register any marriage solemnized by him, or which he ought to
register, and every registrar oho shall refuse, or without reasonable
cause omit, to register any birth or death of which he shall have had
due notice, as aforesaid, and every person having the custody of any
register book, or certified copy thereof, or of any part thereof, who shall
carelessly lose or injure the same, or carelessly allow the same to be in-
jured whilst in his keeping, shall forfeit a sum not exceeding 501. for
every such offence.

43. That every person who shall wilfully destroy or injure, or cause to
be destroyed or injured, any such register book, or any part or certified
copy of any part thereof, or shall falsely snake or counterfeit, or cause to
be falsely made or counterfeited, any part of any such register book or
certified copy thereof, or shall wilfully insert or cause to be inserted in
any register book or certified copy thereof any false entry of any birth,
death, or marriage, or shall wilfully give any false certificate, or shall
certify any writing to be a copy or extract of any register book, know-
ing the same register to be false in any part thereof, or shall forge or
counterfeit the seal of the register office, shall be guilty of felony.
44. Provided that no person charged with the duty of registering
any birth, death, or marriage, who shall discover any error to have
been committed in the form or substance of any such entry, shall
be therefore liable to any of the penalties aforesaid, if within one
calendar month next after the discovery of such error, in the presence
of the parents of the child whose birth may have been so registered, or
of the parties married, or of two persons attending upon any person in
his or her last illness, whose death may have been so registered, or in
case of the death or absence of the respective parties aforesaid, then
in the presence of the superintendent-registrar and of two other cre-
dible witnesses, who shall respectively attest the same, he shall cor.
rect the erroneous entry, according to the truth of the case, by an entry
in the margin, without any alteration of the original entry, and shall
sign the marginal entry, and add thereunto the day of the month and
year when such correction shall be made; provided also, that, in case
of a marriage register he shall make the like marginal entry, attested
in like manner in the duplicate marriage register book to be made by
him as aforesaid, and in every case shall make the like alteration in the
certified copy of the register book to be made by him as aforesaid, or in
case such certified copy shall have been already made, provided he shr.ll
make and deliver in like manner a separate certified copy of the ori.
ginal erroneous entry, and of the marginal correction therein made.
45. That all fines and forfeitures by this Act imposed, unless other-
wise directed, shall be recovered before any two justices of the peace
fur the county, city, or place where the offence shall have happened,
upon the information or complaint of any person ; and if, on the convic-
tion of the offender, either on his or her confession, or by the oath of
any one or more credible witness or witnesses (which oath such justices
are hereby
empowered to administer), such fines or forfeitures, with
the costs of the conviction, shall not be forthwith paid the same shall be
levied by distress and sale of the goods and chattels of the offender, by
warrant under the hand and seal of such justices ; and, for want of dis-
tress, such justices may commit every such offender to the common gaol
or house of correction for the county, city, or pace where the offender
shall be committed, without bail or mainprise, for any term exceeding
one calendar month, unless such fine and forfeiture, and all reasonable
charges attending the recovery thereof, shall be sooner paid; and one
moiety of all such fines and forfeitures shall go to the person who shall
inform and sue or prosecute for the same, and the ether moiety shall go
to the registrar-general, or to such other persons as the Lords Commis-
sioners of the Treasury shall appoint, for the use of his Majesty ; and

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