Marriage Amendment Act 1959
Marriage Amendment Act 1959
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Marriage Amendment Act 1959
Public Act |
1959 No 11 |
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Date of assent |
24 September 1959 |
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Contents
An Act to amend the Marriage Act 1955
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
This Act may be cited as the Marriage Amendment Act 1959, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Marriage Act 1955 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).
2 Deputy Registrars
Section five of the principal Act is hereby amended as follows:
(a)
By adding to subsection one the words “One or more Deputy Registrars may be appointed in any case where a Registrar is appointed.”
:
(b)
By omitting from subsection three the words “The Deputy Registrar,”
and substituting the words “Every Deputy Registrar”
:
(c)
By repealing subsection four, and substituting the following subsection:
“(4)
During a vacancy in the office of Registrar at any place, or during the absence from duty of the Registrar at any place, and so long as no Acting Registrar has been appointed to act for the Registrar, every Deputy Registrar at that place shall have all the powers, duties, and functions of the Registrar.”
3 Proxy marriages
Subsection two of section thirty-four of the principal Act is hereby amended by adding the words “or by reason of the conditions of his service as a member of the armed forces of any Commonwealth country, or of any country for the time being allied with any Commonwealth country.”
4 Officiating minister to comply with directions of the Registrar-General with respect to registration
The principal Act is hereby amended by inserting, after section thirty-seven, the following section:
“37a
“(1)
Where any officiating minister has neglected to register the particulars of any marriage solemnised by him or to forward to the Registrar-General any document required to be so forwarded by this Part of this Act, the Registrar-General may direct the officiating minister to register the particulars or to forward the document.
“(2)
Any officiating minister who fails to comply with a direction of the Registrar-General under subsection one of this section commits an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding twenty pounds.”
5 Registrar-General may complete register from evidence received
Section thirty-eight of the principal Act is hereby amended by adding the following as subsection two thereof:
“(2)
Where particulars of any marriage required to be registered under this Act have not been so registered, or for any reason whatever the Registrar-General has not a copy of any entry under section thirty-six of this Act relating to a marriage, he may, on receipt of a statutory declaration or such other evidence as he deems sufficient as to the several particulars required to be registered, insert particulars of the marriage in the register kept under this section.”
6 Form of certified copy
Section fifty of the principal Act is hereby amended by repealing subsection one, and substituting the following subsection:
“(1)
Every certified copy of an entry in a register under this Act shall be in the prescribed form and any such form shall include only such particulars, and shall be used in such circumstances, as may be prescribed.”
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