The Orisa Marriage Act, 1999 - Trinidad and Tobago · PDF fileTHE ORISA MARRIAGE ACT, 1999 Arrangement of Sections Section 1. Short title 2. Interpretation 3. Orisa Marriage Districts

THE ORISA MARRIAGE ACT, 1999

Arrangement of Sections

Section

1. Short title

2. Interpretation

3. Orisa Marriage Districts

4. Designation of Registrar and District Registrars

5. Orisa Marriage Officers

6. Application for licences as Marriage Officers

7. District Registrars to keep list of Marriage Officers

8. Requisites of a Valid Marriage

9. Age limit and consent of parents

10. Notice to District Registrar

11. District Registrar to send copies of notices to Registrar

12. Issue of District Registrar’s Certificate

13. Notice to Marriage Officer

14. Marriage Officer to send copies to Registrar

15. Issue of Marriage Officer’s Certificate

16. Objections to marriage

17. When caveat entered matter to be referred to Chief Justice

18. Removal of caveat

19. Marriage before Marriage Officer

20. Solemnisation

21. Notice void unless marriage takes place within six months

22. Use of English Language

23. Proof of certain matters not required after marriage

24. When Marriage Officer not compellable to marry

25. Completion of Marriage Certificate and transmission toDistrict Registrar

26. Filing of Certificate and registration of marriage by DistrictRegistrar

27. Marriage which may not be registered

28. Correction of clerical errors in Registers

29. Searches in Registers and copies of entries

30. False declarations

31. Forging or altering register book, notice

32. Destroying or damaging register book

33. Losing or damaging document

34. Issuing of Certificate to person within prohibited degrees ofconsanguinity or affinity

35. Offences by unlicensed Marriage Officers

36. Prosecution of offences

37. Marriage Officer to send copies of entries to DistrictRegistrar and District Registrar to send them to Registrar

38. Disposal of fees

39. Regulations

SCHEDULE

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Legal Supplement Part A to the “Trinidad and Tobago Gazette’’, Vol. 38,No. 145, 17th August, 1999

Fourth Session Fifth Parliament Republic of Trinidadand Tobago

REPUBLIC OF TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO

Act No. 22 of 1999

[L.S.]

AN ACT to make provision for the solemnisation andregistration of Orisa Marriages

[Assented to 16th August, 1999]

ENACTED by the Parliament of Trinidad and Tobago asfollows:—

1. This Act may be cited as the Orisa Marriage Act,1999.

Enactment

Short title

2. In this Act—“district” means an Orisa marriage district

constituted under section 3;“Marriage Officer” means a person licensed as

such under section 5;“Minister” means the Minister to whom

responsibility for the administration ofLegal Affairs is assigned.

3. The President may by Order divide Trinidad andTobago into Orisa marriage districts for the purposes ofthis Act and may from time to time by like Order alterthe districts either by change of boundaries or by unionor sub-division of districts or by the formation of newdistricts.

4. The President may designate—(a) the Registrar General as the Registrar of

Orisa Marriages for Trinidad and Tobago;and

(b) a Revenue Officer in charge of a DistrictRevenue Office as District Registrar ofOrisa Marriages for each district.

5. (1) The President, or any person duly authorisedby him, may grant a licence to be a Marriage Officer tosuch a person, being a Priest or Priestess of the Orisareligion, as the President or such authorised personmay, in his discretion, think fit.

(2) The President may cancel a licence provided forin subsection (1) without assigning a reason for sodoing.

(3) Any Marriage Officer may act as such in anydistrict.

(4) A licence under this section shall be in the formset out in Form A of the Schedule.

Interpretation

Designation ofRegistrar andDistrict Registrar

Orisa MarriageOfficers

Orisa MarriageDistricts

Form A

Schedule

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(5) The grant or cancellation of a licence shall benotified in the Gazette and shall take effect from thedate of the publication.

6. (1) Any Orisa Priest or Priestess who desires to belicensed as a Marriage Officer shall make anapplication in writing to the Minister.

(2) An application made under subsection (1) shallstate the dwelling place of the applicant, the place ofpublic worship at which the applicant acts as Priest orPriestess and shall be accompanied by a certificatefrom the Head of a recognised Orisa organisation to theeffect that the applicant is a fit and proper person to belicensed as a Marriage Officer.

(3) An Orisa organisation shall be designated as aRecognised Orisa Organisation by the Minister inaccordance with prescribed criteria.

(4) If an application under subsection (1) isreceived from an organisation, notice of the applicationshall be advertised in the Gazette and any one whowishes to object to the application shall do so in writingto the Minister within one month of the publication ofthe notice.

7. Every District Registrar shall keep affixed in aconspicuous place in his office a list containing thenames and addresses of all Marriage Officers licensedunder this Act.

8. The requisites of a valid Orisa marriage under thisAct are that—

(a) at least one of the parties shall belong toand profess the Orisa faith or religion;

(b) both parties shall, as regards age, mentalcapacity and otherwise, be capable ofcontracting a valid marriage;

(c) the parties shall not be within theprohibited degrees of consanguinity andaffinity according to Form B of theSchedule;

District Registrars tokeep list of MarriageOfficers

Application forlicence as MarriageOfficer

Requisites of validmarriage

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Form BSchedule

(d) the parties understanding the nature of thecontract, shall freely consent to marry oneanother in the presence of the MarriageOfficer who solemnises the marriage.

9. (1) The age at which a person, being a member ofthe Orisa faith or religion, is capable of contractingmarriage shall be eighteen years in the case of malesand sixteen years in the case of females.

(2) A marriage shall not be solemnised by aMarriage Officer if the intended husband is undereighteen years of age or the intended wife is undersixteen years of age unless the consent of the minor hasbeen given in accordance with the following provisionsof this section.

(3) Notwithstanding subsection (2), where theparties are minors the marriage may be solemnisedwithout the requisite consent being established inkeeping with this section, if the intended husband is awidower or the intended wife is a widow.

(4) The required consent to marriage by a minorshall be given by the mother or father of the minor andif the mother and father are dead, by the guardian orguardians appointed for the purpose by the President.

(5) Where there is no guardian by whom consentmay be given, then any such other person as may beappointed for the purpose by the President mayconsent.

(6) Where a party whose consent to a marriage isrequired under subsection (4) is absent from Trinidadand Tobago or is unable or refuses to give the consentor is not of sound mind, the minor in whose caseconsent is required, may apply to the President toappoint a person, being a member of the Orisa

Age limit andconsent of parents


community, to investigate the circumstances of theintended marriage and if after the investigation itappears to that person that there are no reasonableobjections to the intended marriage, such person shallso formally declare in writing and the declaration shall,for the purposes of this Act, be deemed equivalent tothe consent provided for by subsection (4).

(7) A consent shall, when not given in the presenceof a Marriage Officer, be signed by the person givingsuch consent and the Marriage Officer by whom themarriage is solemnised shall record—

(a) the fact that the required consent has beengiven; and

(b) the name of the person by whom theconsent has been given.

10. (1) Each of the parties shall give notice of theintended marriage to the District Registrar of thedistrict within which he or she has respectively residedfor not less than seven days immediately preceding thedate of such notice.

(2) Notwithstanding subsection (1), when each ofthe parties to the intended marriage has resided for therequired period in the same district, a single noticeshall be sufficient.

(3) Notice of the intended marriage shall be givenin the appropriate form set out in the Schedule.

(4) On the receipt of a notice of an intendedmarriage, the District Registrar shall forthwith enterthe particulars set forth in the notice and also the dateof the receipt of the notice, in a book to be called the“Marriage Notice Book”, and shall place a copy of suchnotice in a conspicuous place in his office for a period ofnot less than seven days from the time of its receipt.

(5) For every entry made in the Marriage NoticeBook, the District Registrar shall be entitled to be paid

Notice to DistrictRegistrar

Form CForm D Schedule


the prescribed fee and such Marriage Notice Book shallbe opened at all reasonable times, without fee, to allpersons desirous of inspecting the same.

11. Every District Registrar shall forthwith transmitto the Registrar a copy of every entry made by him asprovided in section 10 and the Registrar shall on thereceipt of such entry, file and preserve the same amongthe records of his office.

12. (1) Where—(a) no lawful impediment to the issue of the

certificate is shown to the satisfaction ofthe District Registrar; or

(b) no caveat is entered against the issue of thecertificate in accordance with section 13,

the District Registrar may, at any time not more thansix months or less than seven days after the entry ofthe notice, upon being requested to do so, by or onbehalf of the party who gave notice, issue a certificatein the form set out as Form E of the Schedule.

(2) A certificate issued under subsection (1) shallstate—

(a) the particulars set forth in the notice;

(b) the date on which the notice was entered;

(c) the fact of the absence of any caveatagainst the issue of such certificate; and

(d) the fact of the passage of seven days sincethe entering of the notice in the MarriageNotice Book.

(3) The fee for the issue of the certificate underthis section shall be prescribed.

13. (1) Any person whose consent to a marriage ishereby required, or who may know of any just cause

District Registrar tosend copies toRegistrar

Issue of DistrictRegistrar’sCertificate

Form E

Objections tomarriage


why the marriage should not take place, may onpayment of the prescribed fee enter a caveat againstthe issue of a certificate by the District Registrar.

(2) A caveat may be entered at any time before theissue of the District Registrar’s certificate by—

(a) the writing of the word “Forbidden”opposite to the entry of the notice in theMarriage Notice Book; and

(b) the inclusion of a statement of the name,address and grounds upon which the caveatis lodged in the Marriage Notice Book.

(3) No District Registrar shall issue a certificateuntil any caveat has been removed in the mannerprescribed in section 15.

14. (1) Where a caveat is entered against the issue ofa District Registrar’s Certificate, the District Registrarshall inform the Registrar and the Registrar shall referthe matter to the High Court.

(2) Where the High Court is of opinion that nolegal ground has been disclosed in the caveat forforbidding the issue of the certificate, it may removethe caveat in the manner hereinafter provided.

(3) Where legal grounds for the caveat have beendisclosed, the High Court shall summon the parties tothe intended marriage and the person by whom thecaveat has been entered, and shall require such personto show cause why the District Registrar, as the casemay be, should not in due course issue his certificate.

(4) Every such matter shall be heard anddetermined in a summary manner, and the High Courtmay award compensation and costs to the party againstwhom a caveat was entered on insufficient grounds.


Where caveat entered,matter to be referredto High Court

15. (1) The Court may by order direct the Registrarto cause the caveat to be removed.

(2) On the removal of the caveat, the DistrictRegistrar, may issue his certificate in due course, andthe marriage may proceed as if the caveat had not beenentered.

16. (1) On the delivery of the certificate of a DistrictRegistrar, or in case the parties have given notice to theDistrict Registrars of different districts, then on thedelivery of the certificate of each such DistrictRegistrar to any Marriage Officer, the Marriage Officermay solemnise a marriage between the parties namedin the certificate or certificates.

(2) A marriage shall be solemnised with opendoors between the hours of six o’clock in the forenoonand six o’clock in the afternoon of the same day, and inthe presence of two or more credible witnesses and thesaid Marriage Officer.

17. (1) An Orisa marriage shall be solemnised by aMarriage Officer in accordance with the rites of theOrisa religion and under the authority of a DistrictRegistrar’s certificate.

(2) The parties to the marriage shall sign ormark the marriage certificate drawn up by the saidofficer in accordance with section 22.

18. Where a marriage has not taken place within sixmonths after the entry of the notice in the MarriageNotice Book, the notice and all other proceedings shallthereupon be void, and no Marriage Officer shallproceed to solemnise the marriage, nor shall themarriage be contracted before a District Registrar, untila new notice has been given and a certificate issued inthe manner aforesaid.


Removal of caveat

Marriages beforeMarriage Officer

Solemnisation

Notice void unlessmarriage takes placewithin six months

19. All prescribed applications, certificates, forms,declarations and entries in the appropriate Registersshall be in the English Language.

20. After any marriage has been solemnised orcontracted in the manner provided in this Act it shallnot be necessary in support of the marriage that anyproof of the actual dwelling or period of dwelling ofeither of the marriage parties in the district mentionedin a notice of marriage previous to the giving of thenotice, nor of the consent of any person whose consentthereunto is required by law nor of any evidence, begiven to prove the contrary.

21. (1) No Marriage Officer shall be compelled toaccept notice of marriage from, or to enter or publishthe banns of, or to solemnise marriage betweenpersons, neither of whom is a member of the Orisa faithor religion, nor otherwise than according to the rules orcustom of such faith or religion nor unless he issatisfied by the declaration of the parties or otherwisethat the proposed marriage is consistent with suchrules or custom.

(2) No Marriage Officer shall be compelled—(a) to publish the banns of marriage or to

solemnise the marriage of any personwhose former marriage has been dissolvedby a judicial decree, where the other partyto the former marriage is still living; and

(b) to permit the use of any place of worshipunder his control for publishing any suchbanns or solemnising the marriage of anysuch person.

(3) No Marriage Officer shall be liable to anysuit, proceeding or penalty for refusing to publish anysuch banns or for refusing to solemnise any suchmarriage or for refusing to permit the use of any suchplace of worship for any such purposes aforesaid.

Proof of certainmatters not requiredafter marraige


Use of EnglishLanguage

When MarriageOfficer notcompellable to marry

(4) No Marriage Officer is liable to any suit,proceeding or penalty for the publication of any suchbanns or solemnising the marriage of any such personas mentioned above or for permitting the use of anysuch place of worship for any of those purposes.

22. (1) Immediately after an Orisa marriage hasbeen solemnised by a Marriage Officer, the officer shallenter in English in a book to be supplied by the DistrictRegistrar and kept by the Marriage Officer for thatpurpose, a certificate in the form set out as Form F ofthe Schedule.

(2) The book in which the certificate is kept shallbe referred to as the Orisa Marriage Certificate Book.

(3) The Certificate entered in the Orisa MarriageCertificate Book shall be signed by the parties to themarriage, by two witnesses and by the Marriage Officerwho shall enter in the counterfoil of the Book theprescribed particulars and sign the Book.

(4) Where a party to the marriage is unable tosign the certificate, he shall affix his mark in thepresence of the Marriage Officer and of the twowitnesses.

(5) A Marriage Officer shall, within seven days ofan Orisa marriage being solemnised by him, transmitto the District Registrar a duplicate of the certificatereferred to in subsection (1) which shall be transmittedto the Registrar for filing after a copy is retained for therecords of the District Registrar.

(6) A Marriage Officer who—(a) fails to comply with subsection (1);(b) without reasonable cause or excuse, fails to

transmit to the District Registrar of OrisaMarriages any certificate in accordancewith this section;


Completion ofMarriage Certificateby Marriage Officer

Form F

Schedule

(c) solemnises an Orisa marriage without proofthat the persons whose consent is requiredby this Act have given due consent,

is liable on summary conviction to a fine of threehundred dollars.

23. (1) The Registrar shall file in his office allcertificates and declarations of Orisa marriages whichshall be transmitted to him in accordance with theprovisions of this Act and shall forthwith register in aform set out as Form G of the Schedule the particularsof every such certificate and every entry shall be datedon the day on which it is so made and shall be signedby the Registrar.

(2) All entries shall be kept in the OrisaMarriage Register Book.

(3) Upon the registration by the Registrar andupon payment of the prescribed fee by the MarriageOfficer, the Registrar shall issue and transmit to theparties to the marriage a certificate of registration ofthe marriage in the form set out as Form H of theSchedule.

24. (1) If any person knowingly and willfully marriesunder the provisions of this Act, without—

(a) due notice given in accordance withsection 10; or

(b) a certificate under section 12 having beenduly issued, or without a licence issuedunder this Act,

the marriage of such person shall be null and void.

(2) If any parties to any marriage are within theprohibited degrees of consanguinity or affinityaccording to the laws of Trinidad and Tobago themarriage of such persons shall not be registered underthis Act.


Filing of certificate ofmarriage by DistrictRegistrar

Form G Schedule

Marriage which maynot be registered

Form HSchedule

25. The Registrar may correct any clerical error inany Certificate or declaration of Orisa marriage filed inhis office and the Orisa Marriage Register Book andshall authenticate every such correction by hissignature and the date of the correction.

26. (1) Upon payment of the prescribed fees, theRegistrar shall at all reasonable times allow searchesto be made in the Orisa Marriage Register Book andshall give certified copies therefrom.

(2) Any copy certified under the hand of theRegistrar to be a correct copy of any entry in the OrisaMarriage Register Book shall be admissible as evidenceof the registration of the marriage to which it relates inall courts or before any person now or hereafter havingby law or consent of parties authority to hear, receiveand examine evidence.

27. Any person who knowingly and wilfully makesany false declaration or signs or marks any falseapplication, notice or certificate, required by this Act,for the purpose of the registration of any marriage andany person who wilfully makes, or causes to be made,for the purpose of being inserted in any register ofmarriages any false statement with regard to any of theparticulars required by this Act to be known andregistered, is liable to the same penalties as if he wereguilty of perjury.

28. Any person who knowingly and wilfully forges oralters or falsely makes, or procures to be forged oraltered or falsely made, or offers, utters or disposes of,knowing the same to have been forged or altered orfalsely made, any register book or any notice,certificate, entry or statement mentioned in this Act, orany certified copy thereof respectively, or willfullyinserts or causes to be inserted in any register book orcertified copy thereof any false entry of marriage or


Correction of clericalerrors in Registers

Searches in registersand copies of entries

False declaration

Forging or alteringregister book, notice

willfully gives any false certificate, or certifies anywriting to be a copy or extract of any register, knowingthe same to be false in any part thereof, or forges orcounterfeits the seal of the Registrar is liable toimprisonment for seven years.

29. Any person who unlawfully and maliciouslydestroys or damages, or causes to be destroyed ordamaged, any register or any licence, certificate,declaration, entry or statement mentioned in this Act,or any certified copy or translation thereof, respectivelyis liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonmentfor five years.

30. Any person having the custody of any registerbook or certified copy thereof or of any part thereof,who carelessly loses or damages the same or carelesslyallows the same to be damaged or lost whilst in hiskeeping, is liable to a fine of two thousand dollars onsummary conviction.

31. A District Registrar or Marriage Officer whoknowingly and wilfully issues a certificate for themarriage of any persons being within the prohibiteddegrees of consanguinity or affinity according to thelaw of Trinidad and Tobago is liable on conviction onindictment to imprisonment for three years.

32. A person who, without being duly licensed as aMarriage Officer—

(a) knowingly or wilfully solemnises anymarriage purporting to be a marriageunder this Act; or

(b) knowingly and wilfully makes or signs anycertificate or signs any declaration requiredby this Act to be made or signed by aMarriage Officer,

is liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonmentfor three years.


Destroying ordamaging register

Losing or damagingdocument

Issuing of Certificateto person withinprohibited degrees

Offences byunlicensed MarriageOfficer

33. No prosecution for any offence under this Actshall be commenced after the expiration of three yearsfrom the commission of the offence without the writtenconsent of the Director of Public Prosecutions.

34. (1) Every Marriage Officer shall immediatelyafter solemnising a marriage transmit to the DistrictRegistrar a copy of every entry which is made by himas provided in section 22, and the District Registrarshall, on the receipt of such entry transmit it to theRegistrar who shall file it among the records of hisoffice.

(2) A Marriage Officer or District Registrar who,without reasonable cause or excuse, fails to transmit tothe District Registrar or Registrar, as the case may be,a copy of any entry in accordance with this section isliable on summary conviction to a fine of two hundreddollars.

35. All fees received by the Registrar and DistrictRegistrar under this Act shall be paid into public funds.

36. (1) The President may make such regulations asmay be necessary for the proper carrying out of this Actand more especially may prescribe—

(a) the place or places at which shall besituated the offices of the several DistrictRegistrars;

(b) the form of any certificate, declaration,register or other document required for thepurposes of this Act;

(c) the conditions under which registers orother documents may be inspected;

(d) the fees to be paid in respect of anythingrequired or permitted to be done under thisAct, and provision for their remission onaccount of the poverty of the parties or forother good reason.

Prosecution ofoffences

Marriage Officer tosend copies of entriesto District Registrar

Disposal of fees


Regulations

37. Nothing contained in this Act shall be construedto prevent or disable any Orisa adherent fromcontracting a civil marriage before the Registraraccording to the provisions of the Marriage Act.

38. (1) The forms set out in the Schedule shall beforms to be used in respect of the matters therespecified.

(2) The Minister may by Order amend theSchedule.

SCHEDULE

FORMS


FORM A(Section 5)

ORISA MARRIAGE ACT

LICENCE TO BE A MARRIAGE OFFICER

A.B., being a priest/priestess of the Orisa Religion residingat and acting as priest/priestess at ,is hereby licensed as a Marriage Officer for the purposes of theOrisa Marriage Act.

Civil marriagepermissible


Amendment ofSchedule


FORM B[Section 8(c)]

ORISA MARRIAGE ACT

PROHIBITED DEGREES OF CONSANGUINITY ANDAFFINITY

A man shall not marry his:MotherDaughterFather’s mother—grandmotherMother’s mother—grandmotherSon’s daughter—granddaughterDaughter’s daughter—granddaughterSisterWife’s mother—mother-in-lawWife’s daughter—step-daughterFather’s wife—step-motherSon’s wife—daughter in lawFather’s father’s wife—grandfather’s wifeMother’s father’s wife—grandfather’s wifeWife’s father’s mother—wife’s grandmotherWife’s mother’s mother—wife’s granddaughterWife’s son’s daughter—wife’s granddaughterWife’s daughter’s daughter—wife’s granddaughterSon’s son’s wife—grandson’s wifeDaughter’s son’s wife—grandson’s wifeFather’s sister—auntMother’s sister—auntBrother’s daughter—nieceSister’s daughter—niece

A woman shall not marry her:FatherSonFather’s father—grandfatherMother’s father—grandfatherSon’s son—grandsonDaughter’s son—grandsonBrotherHusband’s father—father-in-lawHusband’s son—step-sonMother’ s husband—step-fatherDaughter’s husband—son-in-law


FORM B—Continued[Section 8(c)]

Father’s mother’s husband—grandmother’s husbandMother’s mother’s husband—grandmother’s husbandHusband’s father’s father—husband’s grandfatherHusband’s mother’s husband—husband’s grandfatherHusband’s son’s son—husband’s grandsonHusband’s daughter’s son—husband’s grandsonSon’s daughter’s husband—granddaughter’s husbandDaughter’s daughter’s husband—granddaughter’s husbandFather’s brother—uncleMother’s brother—uncleBrother’s son—nephewSister’s son—nephew.


ORISA MARRIAGE ACT


FORM C(Section 10)

ORISA MARRIAGE ACT

(Applicable to the case of parties residing in different districts or giving separate notices)

NOTICE TO DISTRICT REGISTRAR

To the District Registrar of the district of ......................................................................................................I...................................[here insert the name of the person giving notice] .............................give you noticethat a marriage is intended to be had between me and the other party herein named and described,that is to say.

And I give this notice with the assent of the other party herein named and described. And I solemnlydeclare that I have for seven days, immediately preceding the date of this notice, had my usual place ofabode within the above mentioned district of ...............................and that I believe there is noimpediment of kindred or alliance or other lawful hindrance to the said Marriage.

*And I solemnly declare that I have the consent of all whose consent is necessary for mymarriage, namely:—[Here state names and authority of all those consent is necessary.]

in witness whereof I have hereunto set and subscribed my hand this day of ,19 ......

Signature

*To form part of the declaration when the party is under eighteen years of age and is not a widower orwidow, otherwise to be deleted.


Condition Calling Age Dwelling-place

Length ofResidence

Name andSurname

ORISA MARRIAGE ACT


FORM D(Section 10)

ORISA MARRIAGE ACT

(Applicable to the case of parties residing in different districts or giving separate notices)

NOTICE TO DISTRICT REGISTRAR

To the District Registrar of the district of ....................................................................................We ...................................[here insert the name of the person giving notice] give you notice that

a marriage is intended to be had between me and the other party herein named and described,that isto say.

And we solemnly declare that we have for seven days immediately preceding the date of this notice,had our usual place of abode and residence within the above-mentioned district of...............................and that we believe there is no impediment of kindred or alliance or other lawfulhindrance to the said Marriage.

*And we solemnly declare that we have the consent of all whose consent is necessary for ourmarriage, namely:—[State names and authority of all those consent is necessary.]

in witness whereof we have hereunto set and subscribed our hand this day of ,19 ......

Signature

*To form part of the declaration when either of the parties is under eighteen years of age and is not awidower or widow, otherwise to be deleted.

Condition Calling Age Dwelling-place

Length ofResidence

Name andSurname


ORISA MARRIAGE ACT


FORM E(Section 12)

ORISA MARRIAGE ACT

DISTRICT REGISTRAR’S CERTIFICATE

I........................District Registrar of Marriages for ..................do hereby certify that on the.............dayof

......................, 19.........., notice was duly entered in the Marriage Notice Book of the said District, of the

marriage intended between the parties hereunder named and described.

Date of Notice entered .............................day of ................................., 19 ..........................

Date of Certificate Given ............................day of .................................., 19 ......................

No Caveat has been entered against the issue of this certificate

or [as the case may be]

No Caveat was entered against the issue of this certificate on the.......... day of ...........,19....................but was removed on the ........................day of .................., 19 .................by the Chief Justice.Witness my hand this ......................day of ....................., 19 ......

N.B.—This certificate will be void unless the marriage is solemnised on or before the ..................day of..............................,19 ......., next.

.................................................District Registrar


Condition Profession AgeDwelling-

placeLength of Residence

Consent, ifany, bywhomgiven

Name andSurname (ifany, at full

lenght)

ORISA MARRIAGE ACT


FORM F(Section 22)

ORISA MARRIAGE ACT

No. No.Orisa MarriageCertificate Book

Orisa Marriage Certificate Book

Counterfoil Certificate

Certificate forwarded Signature or mark of parties to the marriage—

to District Registrar at (1)

on the (2)

day of ,19

Signature of Witnesses (1)

Signature of (2)

Marriage Officer

I of ,an Orisa Marriage Officer certify that a marriagebetween the above mentioned parties in accordance with the Orisa lawof Marriage and the Orisa Marriage Act was solemnised by me on theday of ,19..... (and that the consent to the said marriage was givenin writing/in person)*

*Delete if not applicable. Signature of Marriage Officer

to be filled in by

Marriage Officer when Signature of District Registrar for

notified by Registrar. Marriage District of .....................

Date District Registrar

*Delete if not applicable.

Marriage DistrictDate of MarriagePlace of MarriageHusband’s name and ageWife’s name and ageWitnesses’ name—

(1)(2)

Consent to marriagewas given byin writing/in person*

Signature ofMarriage Officer

Date and place of

Marriage

Husband’sname, ageand sect

Occupationof husband

andaddress

Wife’sname ageand sect,

occupationand

residentialaddress

Name ofparents

of husband

andaddress

Name ofparents

of wife and address


ORISA MARRIAGE ACT


FORM G(Section 23)

ORISA MARRIAGE ACT

Orisa Marriage Register Book

Registered No. Marriage District

Registered this day of , 19

Registrar of Orisa Marriages


Husband’sname, age

and religion

Occupationof Husband

and residential

address

Wife’sname and

occupation/religion/

residentialaddress

Name andaddressesof parentsof husband

Name andaddress ofparents of

wife

MarriageOfficersshrinelicence

No.

Signatureof

witnessess,parties andMarriage

Officer

Date andPlace of

Marriage

ORISA MARRIAGE ACT


FORM H(Section 23)

ORISA MARRIAGE ACT

Certificate of Registration of Marriage

This is to certify that a marriage solemnised by an Orisa Marriage Officer on the day of19 , between , of and , was duly registered in accordancewith the provisions of the Orisa Marriage Act on the day of , 19

Registrar of Orisa Marriages.



Passed in the House of Representatives this 30th dayof July, 1999.

J. SAMPSON-JACENT Clerk of the House

Passed in the Senate this 10th day of August, 1999.

N. COXClerk of the Senate

PRINTED BY THE GOVERNMENT PRINTER, PORT-OF-SPAIN

REPUBLIC OF TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO—1999

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