Person who shall forbid the granting by any Superintendent Registrar of a Certificate for Marriage by falsely representing himself or herself to be a Person whose Consent to such Marriage is required by Law, knowing such Representation to be false, shall suffer the Penalties of Perjury.

fraudulent

perty accru

guilty Party to forfeit all Proing from the Marriage, as in 4 G. 4.

c. 76.

XIX. If any valid Marriage shall be had, under the Provi- In case of sions of any of the said recited Acts or this Act, by means of Marriages, the any wilfully false Declaration, Notice, or Certificate made or obtained by either Party to such Marriage as to any Matter in which a solemn Declaration, Notice, or Certificate is required, it shall be lawful for Her Majesty's Attorney General or Solicitor General to sue for a Forfeiture of all the Estate and Interest in any Property accruing to the offending Party by such Marriage, and the Proceedings thereupon and the Consequences thereof shall be the same as are provided in the like Case with regard to Marriages solemnized by Licence between Parties under Age according to the Rites of the Church of England in the Statute passed in the Fourth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Fourth, Chapter Seventy-six.

Provisions of

existing Acts, except where at variance

with this Act.

XX. Except where the Provisions of the said recited Acts Nothing to are expressly altered by or are at variance with the Provisions alter, &c. of this Act, nothing herein contained shall alter, repeal, or affect, or be construed so as in any Manner to alter, repeal, or affect, any of the several Provisions and Clauses contained in the same Acts or any of them, but, except as aforesaid, the same Provisions and Clauses respectively shall be and remain in full Force and Effect as if this Act had not been passed; and this Act shall, except as aforesaid, be considered as incorporated with the same Provisions and Clauses, and be construed in connexion therewith; provided that, save as herein-after mentioned, none of the Provisions of this Act shall limit or alter, or be construed to limit or alter, the Privileges of Persons belonging to the Society of Friends commonly called Quakers, or of Persons professing the Jewish Religion, or impose on either of such Bodies any Obligations beyond such as are enacted in either of the said recited Acts.

Marriages of
Jews may be
Quakers or
solemnized by

XXI. Any Marriage according to the Usages of the Society of Friends commonly called Quakers, or to the Usages of Persons professing the Jewish Religion respectively, where the Parties thereto are both Members of the said Society, or both Licence. Persons professing the Jewish Religion respectively, may be solemnized by Licence (which Licence the Superintendent Registrar to whom Notice of the intended Marriage shall have been given is hereby authorized to grant in the Form or to the Effect set forth in the said Schedule (C.) to this Act annexed,) as effectually in all respects as if such Marriage were solemnized after the Issue of a Certificate by such Superintendent Registrar in the Manner provided by the said recited Acts or any of them; and the Provisions in this present Act contained in relation to [No. 51. Price 2d.] 3 E the

Registrar
General to
furnish Mar.
riage Register
Books and
Forms to
each certified
Secretary of
a Synagogue
of British

Jews.

Marriages under this Act good and cognizable.

Recites the
Act of

15 & 16 Vict.
c. 36.

19 & 20 VICT. the solemn Declaration to be made by the Party intending Marriage, and to the Statement to be contained in the Notice of such intended Marriage that such Marriage is intended to be celebrated by Licence, and to the Notice to be given of any such intended Marriage by Licence and to the giving of Certificates in the Form or to the Effect set forth in Schedule (B.) to this Act annexed, and to the Fee and Stamp to be paid for such Licence, shall be applicable in all respects to every such Marriage to be solemnized by Licence according to the Usages of the said Society or to the Usages of Persons professing the Jewish Religion respectively.

XXII. The Registrar General shall furnish or cause to be furnished to the Person whom Twenty Householders professing the Jewish Religion, and being Members of the West London Synagogue of British Jews, shall certify in Writing under their Hands to the Registrar General to be the Secretary of the West London Synagogue of British Jews, and also to every Person whom such Secretary shall in like Manner certify to be the Secretary of some other Synagogue of not less than Twenty Householders professing the Jewish Religion, and being in connexion with the West London Synagogue, and having been established for not less than One Year, a sufficient Number in duplicate of Marriage Register Books and Forms for certified Copies thereof; and every Secretary of a Synagogue to whom such Books and Forms shall be furnished under this Act shall perform the same Duties in relation to the Registration of Marriages between Persons professing the Jewish Religion as under an Act passed in the Session of Parliament held in the Sixth and Seventh Years of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, Chapter Eighty-six, intituled An Act for registering Births, Deaths, and Marriages in England, are to be performed by the Secretary of a Synagogue to whom Marriage Register Books and Forms for certified Copies thereof have been or shall be furnished under that Act.

XXIII. Every Marriage solemnized under any of the said recited Acts or of this Act shall be good and cognizable in like Manner as Marriages before the passing of the first-recited Act according to the Rites of the Church of England.

'

XXIV. And whereas, in pursuance of an Act passed in the Session holden in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Years of • Her Majesty, Chapter Thirty-six, intituled An Act to amend 'the Law relating to the certifying and registering Places of Religious Worship of Protestant Dissenters, the Registrars of the several Dioceses and Archdeaconries, and the Clerks of 'the Peace of the several Counties, Ridings, Divisions, Cities, and Boroughs in England and Wales, did, in the Year One thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, make and transmit, as thereby required, to the Registrar General of Births, Deaths, ' and Marriages in England, duly verified Returns of all Places within the Limits of their respective Jurisdictions which

< previous

previous to and up to the Time of the passing of the last' mentioned Act had been certified according to Law and registered or recorded as Places of Meeting for Religious Worship: And whereas the total Number of such Places of Meeting so returned to the said Registrar General pursuant to the Provisions of the said Act is Fifty-four thousand eight hundred and four, and it is expedient that, for facilitating the Proof of such Places having been duly certified and registered or recorded as aforesaid, the Registrar General should be empowered by Law to allow Searches to be made ' in the said Returns, and to give certified Copies thereof and Extracts therefrom: Be it further enacted as follows:

allow Searches

the Returns

to him thereto, on Payment of

The Registrar General, on Payment to him of the several Registrar Fees herein-after mentioned, shall allow Searches to be made in General the Returns so made to him as aforesaid, and shall give to any to be made, Person demanding the same a certified Copy thereof or Extract and give Extherefrom with respect to any Place of Meeting for Religious tracts from Worship contained therein; and every such certified Copy or of certified Extract shall be sealed or stamped with the Seal of the General Places of Register Office, and when so sealed or stamped as aforesaid, if Worship made tendered in Evidence upon any Trial or other judicial Proceeding in any Civil or Criminal Court, shall be received as Evidence specified Fees. of the Place of Meeting therein mentioned or described having been at the Time in that Behalf therein stated duly certified and registered or recorded as by Law required, without any further or other Proof of the same; and the Registrar General shall be entitled to demand and receive for every Search in the said Returns extending over a Period of not more than Ten Years the Sum of One Shilling, and for every additional Period of Ten Years the Sum of Sixpence, and the further Sum of Two Shillings and Sixpence for every single certified Copy or Extract.

XXV. Save as herein expressly provided, this Act shall Not to extend not extend to Ireland or Scotland.

to Ireland or Scotland.

Commence

XXVI. This Act shall come into operation on the First Day of January One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, ment of Act. and none of the Provisions thereof shall take effect previous to that Day.

SCHEDULES.

SCHEDULE (A.)

Form of Notice of Marriage.

To the Superintendent Registrar of the District of Hendon
in the County of Middlesex.

I, the undersigned James Smith, hereby give you Notice,
That a Marriage is intended to be had without [or by, as the
Case may be,] Licence within Three Calendar Months from the

Date hereof between me and the other Party herein named and described; (that is to say,)

And I hereby solemnly declare, That I believe there is no Impediment of Kindred or Alliance or other lawful Hindrance to the said Marriage, and that I, the above-named James Smith, have for the Space of Fifteen Days immediately preceding the giving of this Notice had my usual Place of Abode and Residence

[If the Marriage is intended to be had in a Church or Chapel of
the Church of England insert in this Space the following Words,
"in the Parish of
or "in the Ecclesiastical
(as the Case may be,) and

District of

add the Name of the Parish or Ecclesiastical District in which One of the Parties resides] within the above-mentioned District of Hendon.

[And I further declare, That I am not a Minor under the Age of Twenty-one Years, and that the other Party herein named and described is not a Minor under the Age of Twentyone Years. (If One or both of the Parties be under Age these Words must be expunged.)] (Or, as the Case as the Case may be,)

And I further declare, that she [or I] the said Martha Green, not being a Widow [or Widower], is [or am] a Minor under the Age of Twenty-one Years, and that the Consent of George Kilpin, whose Consent to her [or my] Marriage is required by Law, has been duly given and obtained thereto [or "that there is no Person whose Consent to her [or my] Marriage is by Law required" (as the Case may be) ].

And I make the foregoing Declarations solemnly and deliberately, conscientiously believing the same to be true, pursuant to the Provisions of an Act passed in the

Year of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, Chapter

intituled "An Act to amend the Provisions of the Marriage "and Registration Acts," well knowing that every Person who shall knowingly or wilfully make and sign or subscribe any false Declaration or who shall sign any false Notice for the Purpose of procuring any Marriage under the Provisions of the said Act above mentioned, or any of the several Acts therein recited, shall suffer the Penalties of Perjury. In witness

whereof I have hereunto set and subscribed my Hand, this Fifth Day of January 1858.

Signed and declared by the above

James Smith.

named James Smith in the

Presence of

[Here let the Witness attest the Signature of the Party giving the Notice according to One or other of the following "Examples" :-]

Form of Superintendent Registrar's Certificate.

I, John Cox, Superintendent Registrar of the District of Hendon in the County of Middlesex, do hereby certify, That on the Fifth Day of January 1857 Notice was duly entered in the Marriage Notice Book of the said District of the Marriage intended between the Parties herein-after named and described, and of such Marriage being intended to be solemnized without [or by, as the Case may be,] Licence, delivered under the Hand of James Smith, One of the Parties; (that is to say,)

Date of Entry of Notice,

5th January 1857.

Date of Certificate given, 27th January 1857.

The Issue of this Certificate
has not been forbidden by any
Person authorized to forbid
the Issue thereof.

Witness my Hand, this Twenty-seventh Day of January 1857.

(Signed) John Cox,
Superintendent Registrar.

This Certificate will be void unless the Marriage is solemnized within Three Calendar Months after the Date of the Entry of Notice, namely, on or before the Fifth Day of April 1857.

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