Indian Christian Marriage Act, 1872
Bare Act · 1872
An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to the solemnization in India of the marriages of Christians. PREAMBLE.--.
In the syllabus of: Bihar Higher Judiciary · Gujarat Civil Judge · Kerala Civil Judge
- Act number
- 15 of 1872
- Enacted
- 18 July 1872
- Contents
- 88 sections · 9 chapters
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Contents
Preliminary
Part I — The Persons By Whom Marriages May Be Solemnized
- Section 4 – Marriages to be solemnized according to Act
- Section 5 – Persons by whom marriages may be solemnized
- Section 6 – Grant and revocation of licenses to solemnize marriages (preview)
- Section 7 – Marriage Registrars (preview)
- Section 8 – [Omitted.] (preview)
- Section 9 – Licensing of persons to grant certificates of marriage between Indian Christians (preview)
Part II — Time And Place At Which Marriages May Be Solemnized
- Section 10 – Time for solemnizing marriage (preview)
- Section 11 – Place for solemnizing marriage (preview)
Part III — Marriages Solemnized By Ministers Of Religion Licensed Under This Act
- Section 12 – Notice of intended marriage (preview)
- Section 13 – Publication of such notice (preview)
- Section 14 – Notice of intended marriage in private dwelling (preview)
- Section 15 – Sending copy of notice to Marriage Registrar when one party is a minor (preview)
- Section 16 – Procedure on receipt of notice (preview)
- Section 17 – Issue of certificate of notice given and declaration made (preview)
- Section 18 – Declaration before issue of certificate (preview)
- Section 19 – Consent of father, or guardian, or mother (preview)
- Section 20 – Power to prohibit by notice issue of certificate (preview)
- Section 21 – Procedure on receipt of notice (preview)
- Section 22 – Issue of certificate in case of minority (preview)
- Section 23 – Issue of certificates to Indian Christians (preview)
- Section 24 – Form of certificate (preview)
- Section 25 – Solemnization of marriage (preview)
- Section 26 – Certificate void if marriage not solemnized within two months (preview)
Part IV — Registration Of Marriages Solemnized By Ministers Of Religion
- Section 27 – Marriages when to be registered (preview)
- Section 28 – Registration of marriages solemnized by Clergymen of Church of England (preview)
- Section 29 – Quarterly returns to Archdeaconry (preview)
- Section 30 – Registration and returns of marriages solemnized by Clergymen of Church of Rome (preview)
- Section 31 – Registration and returns of marriages solemnized by Clergymen of Church of Scotland (preview)
- Section 32 – Certain marriages to be registered in duplicate (preview)
- Section 33 – Entries of such marriages to be signed and attested (preview)
- Section 34 – Certificate to be forwarded to Marriages Registrar, copied and sent to Registrar General (preview)
- Section 35 – Copies of certificates to be entered and numbered (preview)
- Section 36 – Registrar to add number of entry to certificate, and send to Registrar General (preview)
- Section 37 – Registration of marriages between Indian Christians, by persons referred to in clauses (1), (2) and (3) of section 5 (preview)
Part V — Marriages Solemnized By, Or In The Presence Of, A Marriage Registrar
- Section 38 – Notice of intended marriage before Marriage Registrar (preview)
- Section 39 – Publication of notice (preview)
- Section 40 – Notice to be filed and copy entered in Marriage Notice Book (preview)
- Section 41 – Certificate of notice given and oath made (preview)
- Section 42 – Oath before issue of certificate (preview)
- Section 43 – Petition to High Court to order certificate in less than fourteen days (preview)
- Section 44 – Consent of father or guardian (preview)
- Section 45 – Petition where person whose consent is necessary is insane, or unjustly withholds consent (preview)
- Section 46 – Petition when Marriage Registrar refuses certificate (preview)
- Section 47 – [Omitted.] (preview)
- Section 48 – Petition when Registrar doubts authority of person forbidding (preview)
- Section 49 – Liability for frivolous protest against issue of certificate (preview)
- Section 50 – Form of certificate (preview)
- Section 51 – Solemnization of marriage after issue of certificate (preview)
- Section 52 – When marriage not had within two months after notice, new notice required (preview)
- Section 53 – Marriage Registrar may ask for particulars to be registered (preview)
- Section 54 – Registration of marriages solemnized under part V (preview)
- Section 55 – Certificates to be sent monthly to Registrar General (preview)
- Section 56 – [Omitted.] (preview)
- Section 57 – Registrars to ascertain that notice and certificate are understood by Indian Christians (preview)
- Section 58 – Indian Christians to be made to understand declarations (preview)
- Section 59 – Registration of marriages between Indian Christians (preview)
Part VI — Marriage Of Indian Christians
- Section 60 – On what conditions marriages of Indian Christians may be certified (preview)
- Section 61 – Grant of certificate (preview)
- Section 62 – Keeping of register-book and deposit of extracts therefrom with Registrar General (preview)
- Section 63 – Searches in register-book and copies of entries (preview)
- Section 64 – Books in which marriages Indian Christians under Part I or Part III are registered (preview)
- Section 65 – Part VI not to apply to Roman Catholics (preview)
Part VII — Penalties
- Section 66 – False oath, declaration, notice or certificate for procuring marriage (preview)
- Section 67 – Forbidding, by false personation issue of certificate by Marriage Registrar (preview)
- Section 68 – Solemnizing marriage without due authority (preview)
- Section 69 – Solemnizing marriage out of proper time, or without witnesses (preview)
- Section 70 – Solemnizing without notice or within fourteen days after notice, marriage with minor (preview)
- Section 71 – Issuing certificate, or marrying, without publication of notice; Marrying after expiry of notice; Solemnizing, marriage with minor within fourteen days, without authority of Court, or without sending copy of notice; issuing certificate against authorized prohibition (preview)
- Section 72 – Issuing certificate after expiry of notice, or, in case of minor, within fourteen days after notice, or against authorized prohibition (preview)
- Section 73 – Persons authorized to solemnize marriage (other than Clergy of Churches of England, Scotland or Rome); issuing certificate, or marrying, without publishing notice, or after expiry of certificate; issuing certificate for, or solemnizing, marriage with minor, within fourteen days after notice; issuing certificate authorizedly forbidden; solemnizing marriage authorizedly forbidden; (preview)
- Section 74 – Unlicensed person granting certificate pretending to be licensed (preview)
- Section 75 – Destroying or falsifying register-books (preview)
- Section 76 – Limitation of prosecutions under Act (preview)
Part VIII — Miscellaneous
- Section 77 – What matters need not be proved in respect of marriage in accordance with Act (preview)
- Section 78 – Corrections of errors (preview)
- Section 79 – Searches and copies of entries (preview)
- Section 80 – Certified copy of entry in marriage register, etc., to be evidence (preview)
- Section 81 – Certificates of certain marriages to be sent to Central Government (preview)
- Section 82 – State Government to prescribe fees (preview)
- Section 83 – Power to make rules (preview)
- Section 84 – Omitted (preview)
- Section 85 – Power to declare who shall be District Judge (preview)
- Section 86 – Omitted (preview)
- Section 87 – Saving of Consular marriages (preview)
- Section 88 – Non-validation of marriages within prohibited degrees (preview)