The Short Title of this Act is “The Marriage Act Amendment Act, 1891.” It shall be read together with “The Marriage Act, 1880” (herein referred to as “the principal Act).”

Section ten of the principal Act is hereby repealed, and in lieu thereof it is enacted as follows:—

Section sixteen of the principal Act is hereby amended by the omission of the words “or of the office-bearers or of the householders aforesaid respectively,” and the substitution of the following: “or of the office-bearers or of the ministers or adult members aforesaid respectively.”

The provisions of the principal Act relating to the solemnisation of marriages in the presence of an Officiating Minister shall not extend to any marriage solemnised between parties one or both of whom are members of, or in profession with, the religious Society of Friends, commonly called Quakers; but every such marriage shall be as legal and valid as if duly solemnised under the principal Act, if such marriage was, when celebrated, a valid marriage according to the usages of the Quakers: Provided that notice of the intended marriage is given as required by the principal Act, and the Registrar’s certificate prior to such marriage is duly issued.

A certificate of every such marriage duly signed by both the parties to the marriage, and by two persons witnessing the marriage, shall, within one month next following the celebration thereof, be transmitted to the Registrar-General by the person celebrating or by one of the persons witnessing the marriage, or by the husband, stating the date and place of such marriage, and the name, designation, and usual residence of each of those parties, according to the form, as nearly as may be, in Schedule E to the principal Act.

If such certificate be not transmitted as herein required, the husband shall be liable to a penalty of not exceeding twenty pounds, which may be recovered in a summary manner before any Resident Magistrate or two Justices of the Peace.