Marriage Registration (Amendment) Act 2001

This Act may be cited as the Marriage Registration

(Amendment) Act, No. 11} of 2001.

Scction 34 of the Marriage Registration Ordinance is hereby amended by the repeal of subsection (2) of that section, and the substitution therefor of the following subsection :—

“(2) Immediatcly after the solemnization of a marriage, the Minister shall enter in triplicate, in a book to be kept for that purpose. a statement of the particulars of the marriage in the Form L in the First Schedule. Every such entry shall be numbered consecutively. The Minister shall issue to the parties, free of charge, the third copy of such statement and the same shall be prima facie evidence of the solemnization of such marriage according to the rules, customs, riles and ceremonies of the church.

denomination or body to which such Minister belongs.”.

Inthe event of any inconsistency between the Sinhala and Tamil texts of this Act, the Sinhala text shall prevail.

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