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 of such marriage has not happened or been performed, so that the marriage is void or unlawful on any ground, shall be liable to imprisonment for five years.