Marriage Law (Ireland) Amendment Act, 1863

Proceedings of registrar.

3. The registrar shall then proceed as follows:

(1.) He shall file the notice so given to him, and keep the same with the records of his office:

(2.) He shall forthwith enter a true copy of the notice in his marriage notice book (supplied to him by the Registrar General):

(3.) He shall keep his book open for the inspection of all persons at all reasonable times, without fee:

(4.) He shall, on the day on which he shall have received such notice, or on the following day at the latest, send by post, in a registered letter, a copy of the notice, under his hand,—

To the minister of the church, chapel, or registered place of public worship stated in the notice as that in which the marriage is intended to be solemnized; and

To the minister of the church, chapel, or place of public worship which the parties to the marriage, or either of them, usually attend;

Or the registering officer of the Society of Friends, or secretary of a synagogue, by whom respectively the marriage is to be registered, as the case may require:

(5.) When the marriage is intended to be contracted in the office of the registrar, he shall, in addition to sending a copy of the notice to the minister of the church, chapel, or place of public worship as aforesaid, forthwith suspend a copy of the notice, on a printed form properly and legibly filled up, in some conspicuous place in his office, and keep the same so suspended,—in the case of a marriage intended to be celebrated by virtue of a certificate, for twenty-one days,—and in the case of a marriage intended to be celebrated by virtue of a licence, during seven days, next after the day of entry of the notice:

And the registrar shall be entitled to a fee of one shilling for each registered letter sent by him.