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Indian Christian Marriage Act, 1872

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1Short title ExtentView Details
10Time for solemnizing marriageView Details
11Place for solemnizing marriageView Details
12Notice of intended marriageView Details
13Publication of such noticeView Details
14Notice of intended marriage in private dwellingView Details
16Procedure on receipt of noticeView Details
17Issue of certificate of notice given and declaration madeView Details
18Declaration before issue of certificateView Details
19Consent of father, or guardian, or motherView Details
2Indian Christian Marriage Act,1872View Details
20Power to prohibit by notice issue of certificateView Details
21Procedure on receipt of noticeView Details
22Issue of certificate in case of minorityView Details
23Issue of certificates to Indian ChristiansView Details
24Form of certificateView Details
25Solemnization of marriageView Details
26Certificate void if marriage not solemnized within two monthsView Details
27Marriages when to be registeredView Details
28Registration of marriages solemnized by Clergymen of Church of EnglandView Details
29Quarterly returns to ArchdeaconryView Details
3Interpretation-clauseView Details
30Registration and returns of marriages solemnized by Clergymen of Church of RomeView Details
31Registration and returns of marriages solemnized by Clergymen of Church of ScotlandView Details
32Certain marriages to be registered in duplicateView Details
33Entries of such marriages to be signed and attestedView Details
34Certificate to be forwarded to Marriage Registrar, copied, and sent to Registrar GeneralView Details
35Copies of certificates to be entered and numberedView Details
37Registration of marriages between Indian Christians, by persons referred to in clauses (1), (2) and (3) of section 5.View Details
38Notice of intended marriage before Marriage RegistrarView Details
39Publication of noticeView Details
40Notice to be filed and copy entered in Marriage Notice BookView Details
41Certificate of notice given and oath madeView Details
42Oath before issue of certificateView Details
43Petition to High Court to order certificate in less than fourteen daysView Details
44Consent of father or guardianView Details
44Consent of father or guardianView Details
45Petition where person whose consent is necessary is insane, or unjustly withholds consentView Details
46Petition when Marriage Registrar refuses certificateView Details
46Petition when Marriage Registrar refuses certificateView Details
48 Petition when Registrar doubts authority of person forbiddingView Details
48Petition when Registrar doubts authority of person forbiddingView Details
49 Liability for frivolous protest against issue of certificateView Details
5Persons by whom marriages may be solemnizedView Details
50 Form of certificateView Details
51 Solemnization of marriage after issue of certificateView Details
52 When marriage not had within two months after notice, new notice requiredView Details
53 Marriage Registrar may ask for particulars to be registeredView Details
54 Registration of marriage solemnized under Part VView Details
55 Certificates to be sent monthly to Registrar GeneralView Details
57 Registrars to ascertain that notice and certificate are understood by Indian ChristiansView Details
58 Indian Christians to be made to understand declarationsView Details
59 Registration of marriages between Indian ChristiansView Details
6Grant and revocation of licenses to solemnize marriagesView Details
60 On what conditions marriages of Indian Christians may be certifiedView Details
61 Grant of certificateView Details
62 Keeping of register-book and deposit of extracts there from with Registrar GeneralView Details
63 Searches in register-book and copies of entriesView Details
64 Books in which marriages of Indian Christians under Part I or Part III are registeredView Details
65 Part VI not to apply to Roman Catholics. Saving of certain marriagesView Details
66 False oath, declaration, notice or certificate for procuring marriageView Details
67 Forbidding, by false personation, issue of certificate by Marriage RegistrarView Details
68 Solemnizing marriage without due authorityView Details
69 Solemnizing marriage out of proper time, or without witnessesView Details
7Marriage RegistrarView Details
70 Solemnizing, without notice or within fourteen days after notice, marriage with minorView Details
71 Issuing certificate, or marrying, without publication of noticeView Details
72 Issuing certificate after expiry of notice, or, in case of minor, within fourteen days after notice, or against authorized prohibitionView Details
73 Persons authorized to solemnize marriage (other than Clergy of Churches of England, Scotland or Rome)View Details
74 Unlicensed person granting certificate pretending to be licensedView Details
75 Destroying or falsifying register-booksView Details
76 Limitation of prosecutions under ActView Details
77 What matters need not be proved in respect of marriage in accordance with ActView Details
78 Corrections of errorsView Details
79 Searches and copies of entriesView Details
8Indian Christian Marriage Act, 1872View Details
80 Certified copy of entry in marriage register, etc., to be evidenceView Details
81 Certificates of certain marriages to be sent to Central GovernmentView Details
82 State Government to prescribe feesView Details
83 Power to make rulesView Details
85 Power to declare who shall be District JudgeView Details
87 Saving of Consular marriagesView Details
88 Non-validation of marriages within prohibited degreesView Details
9Licensing of persons to grant certificates of marriage between Indian ChristiansView Details
Foot NotesFoot NotesView Details
SC Notice Of MarriageView Details

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