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Marriage Amendment Act 1951

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Short Title and commencement.

Fees to be prescribed in regulations.

Consequential amendments.

Power to make regulations prescribing fees payable under principal Act.

Marriage Amendment Act 1951

Public Act		1951 No 18
Date of assent		23 November 1951

	Title
1	Short Title and commencement.
2	Fees to be prescribed in regulations.
3	Consequential amendments.
4	Power to make regulations prescribing fees payable under principal Act.

An Act to amend the Marriage Act 1908.

BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

1 Short Title and commencement.

(1)

This Act may be cited as the Marriage Amendment Act 1951, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Marriage Act 1908 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

(2)

This Act shall come into force on the first day of April, nineteen hundred and fifty-two.

2 Fees to be prescribed in regulations.

The principal Act is hereby amended by repealing section seven, and substituting the following new section:—

“7

“(1)

There shall be paid to the Registrar-General and to every Registrar such fees as may from time to time be prescribed in that behalf by regulations made by the Governor-General by Order in Council.

“(2)

Where the Registrar-General or any Registrar is empowered by this Act to do any act for which a fee is payable, he may refuse to do the act until the fee is paid.

“(3)

All fees under this Act paid to the Registrar-General or to any Registrar shall be paid into the Public Account and shall form part of the Consolidated Fund.”

3 Consequential amendments.

(1)

The Second Schedule to the principal Act is hereby repealed.

1946, No. 8

(2)

Section five of the Marriage Amendment Act 1946, is hereby amended by omitting the words “the appropriate fee specified in the Second Schedule to the principal Act”, and substituting the words “the prescribed fee”.

1947, No. 60

(3)

Section forty of the Statutes Amendment Act 1947 is hereby amended by repealing paragraph (d) of subsection one.

4 Power to make regulations prescribing fees payable under principal Act.

(1)

The Governor-General may from time to time, by Order in Council, make regulations prescribing fees payable in respect of any powers or functions exercised under the principal Act by the Registrar-General or by any Registrar.

(2)

All regulations made under this section shall be laid before Parliament within twenty-eight days after the making thereof if Parliament is then in session, and, if not, shall be laid before Parliament within twenty-eight days after the commencement of the next ensuing session.

Marriage Amendment Act 1951