INDIAN CHRISTIAN MARRIAGE ACT, 1872

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S.1 Short title

S.2 Enactments repealed

S.3 Interpretation-clause

S.4 Marriages to be solemnized according to Act

S.5 Persons by whom marriages may be solemnized

S.6 Grant and revocation of licenses to solemnize marriages

S.7 Marriage Registrars

S.8 Marriage Registrars in Indian States

S.9 Licensing of persons to grant certificates of marriage between Indian Christians

S.10 Time for solemnizing marriage

S.11 Place for solemnizing marriage

S.12 Notice of intended marriage

S.13 Publication of such notice

S.14 Notice of intended marriage in private dwelling

S.15 Sending copy of notice to Marriage Registrar when one party is a minor

S.16 Procedure in receipt of notice

S.17 Issue of certificate of notice given and declaration made

S.18 Declaration before issue of certificate

S.19 Consent of father, or guardian or mother

S.20 Power to prohibit by notice issue of certificate

S.21 Procedure on receipt of notice

S.22 Issue of certificate in case of minority

S.23 Issue of certificate to 1[Indian] Christians

S.24 Form of certificate

S.25 Solemnization of marriage

S.26 Certificate void if marriage not solemnized within two months

S.27 Marriages when to be registered

S.28 Registration of marriages solemnized by Clergymen of Church of England

S.29 Quarterly returns to Archdeaconry

S.30 Registration and returns of marriages solemnized by Clergymen of Church of Rome

S.31 Registration and returns of marriages solemnized by Clergymen of Church of Scotland

S.32 Certain marriages to be registered in duplicate

S.33 Entries of such marriages to be signed and attested

S.34 Certificate to be forwarded to Marriage Registrar, copied and sent to Registrar-General

S.35 Copies of certificates to be entered and numbered

S.36 Registrar to add number of entry to certificate and send to Registrar-General

S.37 Registration of marriages between Indian Christians by persons referred to in clauses (1), (2) and (3) of section 5

S.38 Notice of intended marriage before Marriage Registrar

S.39 Publication of notice

S.40 Notice to be filed and copy entered in Marriage Notice Book

S.41 Certificate of notice given and oath made

S.42 Oath before issue of certificate

S.43 Petition to High Court to order certificate in less than fourteen days

S.44 Consent of father or guardian

S.45 Petition where person whose consent is necessary is insane, or unjustly withholds consent

S.46 Petition when Marriage Registrar refuses certificate

S.47 Petition when Marriage Registrar in Indian State refuses certificate

S.48 Petition when Registrar doubts authority of person forbidding

S.49 Liability for frivolous protest against issue of certificate

S.50 Form of certificate

S.51 Solemnization of marriage after issue of certificate

S.52 When marriage not held within two months after notice, new notice required

S.53 Marriage Registrar may ask for particulars to be registered

S.54 Registration of marriages solemnized under Part V

S.55 Certificate to be sent monthly to Registrar-General

S.56 Officers to whom Registrar in Indian States shall send certificates

S.57 Registrars to ascertain that notice and certificate are understood by Indian Christians

S.58 1[Indian] Christians to be made to understand declarations

S.59 Registration of marriages between 1[Indian] Christians

S.60 On what conditions marriages of 1[Indian] Christians may be certified

S.61 Grant of certificate

S.62 Keeping of register-book and deposit of extracts therefrom with Registrar-General

S.63 Searches in register-book and copies of entries

S.64 Books in which marriages of Indian Christians under Part I or Part III are registered

S.65 Part VI not to apply to Roman Catholics

S.66 False oath, declaration, notice or certificate for procuring marriage

S.67 Forbidding by false personation, issue of certificate by Marriage Registrar

S.68 Solemnizing marriage without due authority

S.69 Solemnizing marriage out of proper time, or without witnesses

S.70 Solemnizing without notice or within fourteen days after notice, marriage with minor

S.71 Issuing certificate, or marrying, without publication of notice

S.72 Issuing certificate after expiry of notice, or, in case of minor, within fourteen days after notice, or against authorized prohibition

S.73 Persons authorized to; solemnize marriage (other than clergy of Churches of England, Scotland or Rome)

S.74 Unlicensed person granting certificate pretending to be licensed

S.75 Destroying or falsifying register-book

S.76 Limitation of prosecutions under Act

S.77 What matters need not be proved in respect of marriage in accordance with Act

S.78 Corrections or errors

S.79 Searches and copies of entries

S.80 Certified copy of entry in marriage-register, etc., to be evidence