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MARRIAGE WITH FOREIGNERS ACT 1906 - SECT 7

Short title.

7. This Act may be cited as the Marriage with Foreigners Act, 1906.

1. The applicant shall sign a notice stating the name, surname, profession,
condition, nationality, and residence of each of the parties to the marriage,
and whether each of the parties is or is not a minor.

2. The applicant shall at the time of giving the notice make and subscribe in
a book to be kept by the registrar or officer for the purpose an oath

(a)that the applicant believes that there is no impediment to the marriage by
reason of kindred or alliance, or otherwise; and

(b)that the applicant has for three weeks immediately preceding had his usual
residence within the district of the registrar or officer; and

(c)if the applicant, not being a widower or widow, is under the age of
[eighteen years], that the consent of the persons whose consent to the
marriage is required by law has been obtained thereto, or that there is no
person having authority to give that consent, as the case may be.

3. The registrar or officer shall file every such notice and keep it with the
archives of his office, and shall forthwith enter in a book of notices to be
kept by him for the purpose, and post up in some conspicuous place in his
office a copy of every such notice, and shall keep it so posted up for at
least twenty-one days.

4. The book in which the notice is entered, and the copy posted up, shall be
open at all reasonable times without fee to the inspection of any person.

5. Any person whose consent is required by law to marriages solemnised in
England may forbid the certificate by writing the word "forbidden" opposite to
the entry of the application in the book of notices, and by subscribing
thereto his name and residence and the character by reason of which he is
authorised to forbid the certificate.

6.(a) Any person may enter with the registrar or officer a caveat against the
granting of the certificate, signed by him or in his behalf and stating his
residence and the grounds of his objection.

(b) The registrar or officer shall examine into the matter of the caveat and
decide whether it ought to obstruct the giving of the certificate or not, but
he may if he thinks fit refer the matter to the Registrar-General to decide.
If the registrar or officer decides the question himself, and decides that the
caveat ought to obstruct the granting of the certificate, the applicant for
the certificate may appeal to the Registrar-General in manner provided by
regulations made under this Act.

(c) The caveat shall cease to operate

(i)if withdrawn by the persons entering it; or

(ii)if it is decided by the registrar or officer or by the Registrar-General
on appeal that it ought not to obstruct the giving of the certificate.

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