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MATRIMONIAL CAUSES AND MARRIAGE LAW (IRELAND) AMENDMENT ACT 1871 - SECT 22

A certificate to be produced in all cases of marriages by special license.

22. In all cases of marriages which may be legally solemnized under the
authority of a special license granted in pursuance of the provisions of the
Matrimonial Causes and Marriage Law (Ireland) Amendment Act, 1870, the parties
about to contract any such marriage shall produce to the clergyman or minister
celebrating the marriage, or, in case the parties are members of the Society
of Friends, to the registering office of the said Society of Friends for the
district in which the same is intended to be solemnized, a certificate
according to the form in the schedule hereunto annexed, or to the like effect,
which certificate shall be procured by the parties contracting the marriage
previous to its solemnization, from the registrar of the district within which
such marriage is intended to be solemnized, who shall be bound to fill up the
said form, and which certificate shall be signed by the parties contracting
the marriage and by the witnesses present thereat, not being less than two,
and also by the said clergyman, minister, or registering officer; and the
parties contracting the marriage shall within three days thereafter either
deliver or send by post such certificate to the Registrar General of
Marriages; and the husband shall, in case of failure so to deliver or send
such certificate, be liable in a penalty not exceeding ten pounds, to be
recovered in manner provided by the Registration of Marriage (Ireland) Act,
1863, for the recovery of penalties.


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