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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