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Section 46 Marriage Act Section 46 of the Marriage Act 1914 is about Contracting marriage under this Act when already married by native law. It provides as follows: Whoever contracts a marriage under the provisions of this Act, or any modification or re‐enactment thereof, being at the time married in accordance with customary law to…
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Section 45 Marriage Act Section 45 of the Marriage Act 1914 is about Fictitious marriage. It provides as follows: Whoever goes through the ceremony of marriage, or any ceremony which he orshe represents to be a ceremony of marriage, knowing that the marriage is void on any ground, and that the other person believes it…
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Section 44 Marriage Act Section 44 of the Marriage Act 1914 is about Personation in marriage. It provides as follows: Whoever personates any other person in marriage, or marries under a false nameor description, with intent to deceive the other party to the marriage, shall be liableto imprisonment for five years.
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Section 43 Marriage Act Section 43 of the Marriage Act 1914 is about Wilful neglect of duty to fill up or transmit certificate of marriage. It provides as follows: Whoever, being under a duty to fill up the certificate of a marriage celebrated by him, or the counterfoil thereof, or to transmit the same to…
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Section 42 Marriage Act Section 42 of the Marriage Act 1914 is about Unlawfully performing marriage ceremony. It provides as follows: Whoever performs or witnesses as a marriage officer the ceremony of marriage, knowing that he is not duly qualified so to do, or that any of the matters required by law for the validity…
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Section 41 Marriage Act Section 41 of the Marriage Act 1914 is about False pretence of impediment to marriage. It provides as follows: Whoever endeavours to prevent a marriage by pretence that his consent thereto is required by law, or that any person whose consent is so required does not consent, or that there is…
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Section 40 Marriage Act Section 40 of the Marriage Act 1914 is about Making false declarations, etc., for marriage. It provides as follows: Whoever in any affidavit, declaration, certificate, license, document, or statement by law to be made or issued for the purposes of a marriage, declares, enters, certifies or states any material matter which…
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Section 39 Marriage Act Section 39 of the Marriage Act 1914 is about Marriage with a person previously married. It provides as follows: Whoever, being unmarried, goes through the ceremony of marriage under this Act with a person whom he or she knows to be married to another person, shall be liable to imprisonment for…
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Section 38 Marriage Act Section 38 of the Marriage Act 1914 is about Minister may receive customary fees. It provides as follows: This Act shall not preclude a minister from receiving the fees ordinarily paid to a minister of his denomination for the celebration of marriage.
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Section 37 Marriage Act Section 37 of the Marriage Act 1914 is about Fees may be remitted on ground of poverty. It provides as follows: The Minister may, when he is satisfied of the poverty of the parties, reduce the amount of the said fees, or remit them altogether, and, if they have been paid…