(1) After compliance with the provisions of this Act any marriage may be solemnised at the office of and before the Registrar and in the presence of 2 or more witnesses on any day (not being a Sunday, Good Friday, Anzac Day, or Christmas Day).
(2) During the solemnisation of every such marriage each party to it shall declare:
I solemnly declare that I do not know of any impediment to this marriage between me A B and C D,
And shall say to the other party:
I call on the people present here to witness that I, A B, take you, C D, to be my legal wife (or husband), or words to similar effect.
This section was substituted, as from 1 January 1977, by section 7(1) Marriage Amendment Act 1976 (1976 No 8).
Subsection (1) was amended, as from 15 December 1994, by section 3 Marriage Amendment Act 1994 by omitting the words “with open doors”
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Subsection (1) was further amended, as from 7 May 1999, by section 4 Marriage Amendment Act 1999 (1999 No 38) by omitting the words “at any time between 6 a.m. and 10 p.m.”
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