Matrimonial Causes and Marriage Law (Ireland) Amendment Act, 1871

A certificate to be produced in all cases of marriages by special license.

33 & 34 Vict. c. 110.

26 & 27 Vict. c. 90.

22. In all cases of marriages which may be legally solemnized under the authority of a special license granted in pursuance of the provisions of the Matrimonial Causes and Marriage Law (Ireland) Amendment Act, 1870, the parties about to contract any such marriage shall produce to the clergyman or minister celebrating the marriage, or, in case the parties are members of the Society of Friends, to the registering office of the said Society of Friends for the district in which the same is intended to be solemnized, a certificate according to the form in the schedule hereunto annexed, or to the like effect, which certificate shall be procured by the parties contracting the marriage previous to its solemnization, from the registrar of the district within which such marriage is intended to be solemnized, who shall be bound to fill up the said form, and which certificate shall be signed by the parties contracting the marriage and by the witnesses present thereat, not being less than two, and also by the said clergyman, minister, or registering officer; and the parties contracting the marriage shall within three days thereafter either deliver or send by post such certificate to the Registrar General of Marriages; and the husband shall, in case of failure so to deliver or send such certificate, be liable in a penalty not exceeding ten pounds, to be recovered in manner provided by the Registration of Marriage (Ireland) Act, 1863, for the recovery of penalties.