Marriage (Amendment) Regulations, 2004

L.N. 354 of 2004

MARRIAGE ACT

(CAP. 255)

Marriage (Amendment) Regulations, 2004

In exercise of the powers conferred by article 34 of the Marriage

Act, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Justice and Home

Affairs, in concurrence with the Prime Minister and Minister of Finance,

has made the following regulations:-

(1) These regulations may be cited as the Marriage

(Amendment) Regulations, 2004 and they shall be read and construed

as one with the Marriage Regulations, 1975, hereinafter referred to as

“the principal regulations”.

(2)

These regulations shall come into force on the 7th July,

2004.

For regulation 2 of the principal regulations, there shall be

substituted the following:-

“2. The fee to be levied and paid for things done or

services rendered by the Registrar under the Marriage Act

shall, in respect of each marriage, be Lm10; where such fee

shall cover all services and all things done in respect of such

marriage including, but without prejudice to the generality of

the foregoing, the publication of banns and the issue of

certificates relating thereto, the celebration of the marriage,

if any, by the Registrar, and the attendance of any person for

the completion and delivery for registration of the act of

marriage.

Provided that where any of the spouses in a marriage

contracted in a civil or religious form resides abroad, there

shall be paid an additional fee of Lm10;

Provided further that where any marriage in a civil form

is contracted in such other place open to the public other than

the Marriage Registry, there shall be paid an additional fee of

Lm10”.

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