Section 26 Marriage Act

Section 26 of the Marriage Act 1914 is about Signature of certificate; duplicate certificate to be sent to registrar. It provides as follows:

The certificate shall then be signed in duplicate by the officiating minister, by the parties, and by two or more witnesses to the marriage. The minister having also signed his name to the counterfoil, he shall sever the duplicate certificate therefrom, and he shall deliver one certificate to the parties, and shall within seven days thereafter transmit the other to the registrar of marriages for the district in which the marriage takes place, who shall file the same in his office.