Bill No. 19 Marriage And Divorce Bill Solemnization of Civil Marriage 2009 23. Solemnization of civil marriage (1) After a District Registrar has issued a marriage licence or after the issue of the Minister’s licence, a civil marriage may be solemnized in the office of the District Registrar to whom the notice of marriage was given or, in the case of a Minister’s licence, at the place mentioned in the licence. (2) A civil marriage shall be performed before a District Registrar— (a) in his or her office; (b) in the presence of at least two witnesses; and (c) between the hours of nine o’clock in the morning and five o’clock in the afternoon. (3) A District Registrar shall, after perusing the marriage licence, require the parties to the intended marriage to make the following declaration— “I solemnly declare that I do not know of any lawful impediment why I, AB, may not enter into marriage with CD.” (4) Each of the parties shall then say to each other— “I call upon all persons here present to witness that I, AB take you, CD, to be my lawful wife/husband so long as both of us shall live.” 24. Marriage certificate in a civil marriage (1) Immediately after a civil marriage has taken place, the officiating District Registrar shall fill in quintuplicate the marriage certificate in Form F specified in the Third Schedule to this Act and enter in the counterfoil, the serial number of the marriage, the names of the parties and the names of the witnesses. 20