Marriage Act, 1961/1991-06-28

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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

Population Registration Act Repeal Act, No. 114 of 1991

2. (1) Every magistrate, every special justice of the peace and every Commissioner shall by virtue of his office and so long as he holds such office, be a marriage officer for the district or other area in respect of which he holds office.

(2) The Minister and any officer in the public service authorized thereto by him may designate any officer or employee in the public service or the diplomatic or consular service of the Union to be, by virtue of his office and so long as he holds such office, a marriage officer, either generally or for any specified class of persons or country or area.

3. (1) The Minister and any officer in the public service authorized thereto by him may designate any minister of religion of, or any person holding a responsible position in, any religious denomination or organization to be, so long as he is such a minister or occupies such position, a marriage officer for the purpose of solemnizing marriages according to Christian, Jewish or Mohammedan rites or the rites of any Indian religion.

(2) A designation under sub-section (1) may further limit the authority of any such minister of religion or person to the solemnization of marriages―

within a specified area; for a specified period.

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 Identification Act, 1986 (Act No. 72 of 1986); 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).