Marriage (Amendment) Regulations, 2006

L.N. 161 of 2006

MARRIAGE ACT

(CAP. 255)

Marriage (Amendment) Regulations, 2006

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, 2006 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 1st July,

2006.

Regulation 2 of the principal regulations shall be amended as

follows>–

(a) in the second proviso thereto, for the words “Lm10.”

there shall be substituted the words “Lm10>”< and

(b) immediately after the second proviso, there shall be

added the following new proviso>

“Provided also that where in any marriage in a civil form

both spouses reside abroad, and consequently further

verification procedures would be required, there shall be paid

a further additional fee of Lm10.”.

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