32. Correction of clerical errors in marriage certificates. Any registrar, when authorised by the Registrar General, may correct any clerical error in any certificate of marriage filed in his or her office, upon production to him or her of the certificate delivered to the parties, and shall authenticate every correction by his or her signature and the date of the correction. 33. Evidence of marriage. Every certificate of marriage which shall have been filed in the office of the registrar of any district, or a copy of it, purporting to be signed and certified as a true copy by the registrar of that district for the time being, and every entry in a Marriage Register Book or a copy of it, certified as aforesaid, shall be admissible as evidence of the marriage to which it relates, in any court of justice or before any person now or hereafter having by law or consent of parties authority to hear, receive and examine evidence. Invalid marriages. 34. Circumstances invalidating marriage. 1. No marriage in Uganda shall be valid which, if celebrated in England, would be null and void on the ground of kindred or affinity, or where either of the parties to it at the time of the celebration of the marriage is married by customary law to any person other than the person with whom the marriage is had. 2. A marriage shall be null and void if both parties knowingly and wilfully acquiesce in its celebration— 1. in any place other than the office of a registrar of marriages or a licensed place of worship, except where authorised by the Minister’s licence; 2. under a false name or names; 3. without the registrar’s certificate of notice or Minister’s licence duly issued; or 4. by a person not being a recognised minister of some religious denomination or body, or a registrar of marriages. (3) No marriage shall, after celebration, be deemed invalid by reason that any provision of this Act, other than the foregoing, has not been

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