24. Entries to be made in marriage certificate. Immediately after the celebration of any marriage by a minister, the officiating minister shall fill out in duplicate a marriage certificate with the particulars required by Form E, and state also and enter in the counterfoil the number of the certificate, the date of the marriage, names of the parties and the names of the witnesses. 25. Signature of certificate in duplicate. 1. The certificate shall then be signed in duplicate by the officiating minister, by the parties and by two or more witnesses to the marriage. 2. The minister having also signed his or her name to the counterfoil, shall sever the duplicate certificate therefrom, and shall deliver one certificate to the parties, and shall within seven days thereafter transmit the other to the registrar of marriages for the district in which the marriage takes place, who shall file it in his or her office. 26. Marriage in a registrar’s office. After the issue of a certificate under section 10 or 15, or of a licence under section 12, the parties may, if they think fit, contract a marriage before a registrar, in the presence of two witnesses in his or her office, with open doors, between the hours of ten o’clock in the forenoon and four o’clock in the afternoon, and in the following manner— The registrar, after production to him or her of the certificate or licence, shall, either directly or through an interpreter, address the parties thus— “Do I understand that you (name), and you (name), come here for the purpose of becoming man and wife?” If the parties answer in the affirmative, he or she shall proceed thus— “Know you that by the public taking of each other as man and wife in my presence, and in the presence of the persons now here, and by the subsequent attestation of that taking by signing your names to that effect, you become legally married to each other, although no other rite of a civil or religious nature shall take place, and that this marriage cannot be dissolved during your