4. Administering of oath or affirmation and taking of affidavit

Republic of Sri Lanka and accordingly may administer any oath or affirmation or take any affidavit and such oath or affirmation or such affidavit shall be deemed to have been administered or taken, as the case may be, in Sri Lanka.

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Solemnization = §, (1) Every diplomatic or consular officer shall be registration deemed to be an Additional District Registrar for any of marriages.

district in Sri Lanka within the meaning of the Marriage

Registration Ordinance (Chapter 112) and the Kandyan

Marriage and Divorce Act (Chapter 113) and accordingly such diplomatic or consular officer may, notwithstanding the provisions of section 23 of that Ordinance and section 16 of that Act, solemnize and register, in the Sinhala, Tamil or English language, any marriage under that Ordinance or Act, as the case may be, in the foreign country to which he is appointed or accredited, where at least one of the parties to the marriage is a citizen of Sri Lanka, as though such marriage was solemnized and registered in any district in Sri Lanka.

Marriage and Divorce Act (Chapter 115), other than the provisions of subsection (1) of section 8 of that Act relating to capacity, every diplomatic or consular officer shall be deemed to be a Registrar within the meaning of that Act, and accordingly such diplomatic or consular officer may register in the Sinhala, Tamil or

English language, any marriage under that Act, in the foreign country to which he is appointed or accredited, where at least one of the parties to the marriage is a citizen of Sri Lanka and whether the parties are inhabitants of Sri

Lanka or not, as though such marriage were registered in any district in Sri Lanka.

Muslim Marriage and Divorce Act shall, mutatis mutandis, apply to and in relation to the solemnization and registra-tion, or registration as the case may be, of a marriage referred to in subsections (1) and (2).

Marriage and Divorce Act, as the case may be.