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FOREIGN MARRIAGE ACT 1892 - SECT 8

Solemnisation of marriage at office in presence of marriage officer and two witnesses.

8.(1) After the expiration of fourteen days after the notice of an intended
marriage has been entered under this Act, then, if no lawful impediment to the
marriage is shown to the satisfaction of the marriage officer, and the
marriage has not been forbidden in manner provided by this Act, the marriage
may be solemnised under this Act.

(2) Every such marriage shall be solemnised at the official house of the
marriage officer, with open doors, between the hours of [eight in the forenoon
and six in the afternoon] in the presence of two or more witnesses, and may be
solemnised by another person in the presence of the marriage officer,
according to the rites of the Church of England, or such other form and
ceremony as the parties thereto see fit to adopt, or may, where the parties so
desire, be solemnised by the marriage officer.

(3) Where such marriage is not solemnised according to the rites of the Church
of England, then in some part of the ceremony, and in the presence of the
marriage officer and witnesses, each of the parties shall declare,

"I solemnly declare, that I know not of any lawful impediment why I A.B. [or
C.D.] may not be joined in matrimony to C.D. [or A.B.]."

"I call upon these persons here present to witness, that I A.B. [or C.D.] take
thee, C.D. [or A.B.], to be my lawful wedded wife [or husband]."

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