Marriage Act, 1961/1990-07-13

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as amended by

Marriage Amendment Act, No. 11 of 1964

Black Laws Amendment Act, No. 42 of 1964

Marriage Amendment Act, No. 19 of 1968

Marriage Amendment Act, No. 51 of 1970

Marriage Amendment Act, No. 26 of 1972

Marriage Amendment Act, No. 12 of 1973

Second Black Laws Amendment Act, No. 102 of 1978

Marriage Amendment Act, No. 45 of 1981

Child Care Act, No. 74 of 1983

Matrimonial Property Act, No. 88 of 1984

Marriages, Births and Deaths Amendment Act, No. 41 of 1986

Application of Certain Laws to Namibia Abolition Act, No. 112 of 1990

5. (1) Any person who, at the commencement of this Act, or of the Marriage Amendment Act, 1970, is under the provisions of any prior law authorized to solemnize any marriages, shall continue to have authority to solemnize such marriages as if such law had not been repealed, but shall exercise such authority in accordance with the provisions of this Act.

(2) Any such person shall be deemed to have been designated as a marriage officer under this Act.

12. No marriage officer shall solemnize any marriage unless―

each of the parties in question produces to the marriage officer his or her identity document issued under the provisions of the Population Registration Act, 1950 (Act No. 30 of 1950); or

each of such parties furnishes to the marriage officer the prescribed affidavit; or one of such parties produces his or her identity document referred to in paragraph (a) to the marriage officer and the other furnishes to the marriage officer the affidavit referred to in paragraph (b).

39. (1) Subject to the provisions of sub-sections (2) to (4) inclusive, the laws specified in the Schedule are hereby repealed to the extent set out in the fourth column thereof.

(2) Anything done under any provision of a law repealed by sub-section (1) shall be deemed to have been done under the corresponding provision of this Act (if any).

(3) Any marriage which is validated by or is valid in terms of any law repealed by sub-section (1) shall not be effected by such repeal.

(4) Any provision of a law repealed by sub-section (1) which applies only in respect of non-white persons or a particular class of non-white persons shall, notwithstanding the provisions of this Act, but subject to the provisions of sub-section (5), continue to apply in respect of any Black and any Asiatic in respect of whom it is applicable.



