The acts for the registration of births, deaths, and marriages in England, 1836 to 1874 : and the acts for marriages in England, 1836 to 1872 : with other acts or parts of acts which concern the office or duties of the Registrar General and the duties of officers under the Registration Acts. With an index.

Date:: 1878

Credit: The acts for the registration of births, deaths, and marriages in England, 1836 to 1874 : and the acts for marriages in England, 1836 to 1872 : with other acts or parts of acts which concern the office or duties of the Registrar General and the duties of officers under the Registration Acts. With an index. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service. The original may be consulted at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service.

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Superin- tendent registrar of births to be super- intendent registrar of marriages. Notice of every in- tended marriage to be given to the superin- tendent registrar of the dis- trict. law, provided that the parties to such marriage be both of the said Society (ct), or both persons professing the Jewish religion respectively; provided also, that notice to the [superintendent] registrar shall have been given, and the [superintendent] registrar’s certificate shall have issued in manner herein-after provided. 3. And be it enacted, that the superintendent registrar of births and deaths of every union, parish, or place shall be, in right of his office, superintendent registrar of marriages within such union, parish, or place, and that such union, parish, or place shall be deemed the district of such superintendent registrar of marriages. 4. And be it enacted, that in every case of marriage intended to be solemnized in England after the said [first day of March] according to the rites of the Church of England, (unless by licence or by special licence, or after publication of banns,) and in every case of marriage intended to be solemnized in England after the said [first day of March] according to the usages of the Quakers or Jews, or according to any form authorized by this Act, one of the parties shall give notice under his or her hand, [in the form of Schedule (A.) to this Act annexed, or to the like effect (6),] to the superintendent registrar of the district within which the parties shall have dwelt for not less than seven days then next preceding, or if the parties dwell in the districts of different superintendent registrars shall give the like notice to the superintendent registrar of each district, and shall state therein the name and surname, and the profession or condition of each of the parties intending marriage, the dwelling place of each of them, and the time not being less than seven days during which each has dwelt therein, and the church or other building in which the marriage is to be solemnized ; provided that if either party shall have dwelt in the place stated in the notice during more than one calendar month, it may be stated therein that he or she have dwelt there one month and upwards.(c) (а) It is not necessary that both parties shall be Quakers. See 23 Viet, c. 18. and 35 Viet. e. 10., post. . . . (б) The words within brackets are repealed by Statute Law Revision Act, 1874. A new form of notice is prescribed by 19 & 20 Viet. c. 119. s. 2, and Sched. A. of that Act. _ . (?~) As to marriages by licence this section is virtually repealed bj 19 & 20 Viet. c. 119. s. 6.

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