Bill No. 19
Marriage And Divorce Bill
2009
80. Conversions to comply with preliminaries of a civil marriage
(1) Parties intending to convert their marriages shall comply
with the provisions relating to preliminaries for a civil marriage under
Part III, except that the parties shall use the Forms G, H, I, J, and K
specified in the Third Schedule to this Act.
(2) Where the conversion takes place in the District Registrar’s
office, each of the parties may, instead of saying to each other the
words prescribed in section 21(4), the parties may say—
“I call upon all persons here present to witness that whereas I,
AB has been married to you CD; under (specify type of
marriage), I now solemnly, knowingly and willfully
renounce the (specify type of marriage) and agree to
continue and to take you as my wife (husband) in a
monogamous marriage as long as we both shall live.”
81. Marriage certificate on conversion of marriage
(1) Immediately after a conversion has taken place, the
officiating District Registrar, shall fill, in quintuplicate a marriage
certificate in Form H in the Third Schedule to this Act and enter in
the counterfoil the number, the date on which the marriage took place,
the names of the parties and the names of the witnesses.
(2) The District Registrar or the celebrant shall retain one copy
of the marriage certificate, give one copy to the parties to the
marriage and—
(a) in the case of the District Registrar forward one copy to the
Registrar General; and
(b) in the case of the celebrant, forward two copies to the
District Registrar who shall retain one copy and forward the
other copy to the Registrar General.
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