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. 36

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