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PART IV REGISTRATION OF MARRIAGES SOLEMNIZED BY MINISTERS OF RELIGION

Section 27: Marriages when to be registered

The Indian Christian Marriage Act, 1872

All marriages hereafter solemnized in 1[India] between persons one or both of whom professes or profess the Christian religion, except marriages solemnized under Part V or Part VI of this Act, shall be registered2 in manner hereinafter prescribed.

Footnotes in the official text

  1. 1.Subs. by Act 3 of 1951, s. 3 and Sch., for “a Part A State or a Part C State”.
  2. 2.As to the establishment of general registry offices of births, deaths and marriages, see the Biths, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act, 1886 (6 of 1886), Ch. II.