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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…
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Section 36 Marriage Act Section 36 of the Marriage Act 1914 is about Fees. It provides as follows: The fees specified in the Second Schedule shall be paid for the several matters to which they are applicable.
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Section 35 Marriage Act Section 35 of the Marriage Act 1914 is about Customary marriages. It provides as follows: Any person who is married under this Act, or whose marriage is declared by thisAct to be valid, shall be incapable, during the continuance of such marriage, ofcontracting a valid marriage under customary law; but, save…
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Section 34 Marriage Act Section 34 of the Marriage Act 1914 is about Marriages under this Act valid. It provides as follows: All marriages celebrated under this Act shall be good and valid in law to all intents and purposes.
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Section 33 Marriage Act Section 33 of the Marriage Act 1914 is about Invalid marriages. It provides as follows: (1) No marriage in Nigeria shall be valid where either of the parties thereto at the time of the celebration of such marriage is married under customary law to anyperson other than the person with whom…
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Section 32 Marriage Act Section 32 of the Marriage Act 1914 is about Evidence of marriage. It provides as follows: Every certificate of marriage which shall have been filed in the office of the registrar of any district, or a copy thereof, purporting to be signed and certified as a true copy by the registrar…
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Section 31 Marriage Act Section 31 of the Marriage Act 1914 is about Correction of clerical errors in marriage certificates. It provides as follows: Any registrar, when authorised by the Principal Registrar, may correct any clerical er‐ ror in any certificate of marriage filed in his office, upon production to him of the certifi‐ cate…