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MATRIMONIAL CAUSES AND MARRIAGE LAW (IRELAND) AMENDMENT ACT 1871 - SECT 23

Particulars of certificates to be entered in register books.

23. Every registrar, on receipt of any such certificate, shall forthwith enter
the particulars thereof in the register book: Provided always, that if any
error shall be discovered to have been committed in the entry of marriage in
any register, the person discovering the same shall forthwith give information
thereof to the justice or justices at the petty sessions of the district
within which such marriage shall have been solemnized ...; and it shall be
lawful for the said justice or justices, and they are hereby authorized and
required, thereupon, or upon otherwise coming to the knowledge of such
erroneous entry, to summon before them the person who made and any person
concerned in making such erroneous entry or having any knowledge regarding the
same, and also any person interested in the effect of such erroneous entry,
and to examine all such persons on oath; and if the said justice or justices
shall be satisfied that any error has been committed in any such entry, such
justice or justices shall, by authority in writing under his or their hands,
direct the registrar to correct the erroneous entry; and it shall be lawful
for the registrar, and he is hereby required, thereupon to correct the
erroneous entry according to the truth of the case by entry in the margin,
without any alteration of the original entry; and such marginal entry shall
contain a reference to the deposition upon which the said justice or justices
directed the correction to be made, and shall be dated on the day on which it
is made, and signed by the parties applying for the correction, and by the
registrar; and in every case the registrar shall make the like alteration in
the certified copy of the register book; provided that in case such certified
copy shall have been already made, he shall make and deliver in like manner a
separate certified copy of the original erroneous entry and of the marginal
correction made therein.

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