Page:Marriage Amendment Act 1972 from Government Gazette.djvu/2

GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, APRIL, 1972

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To amend the Marriage Act, 1961, so as to validate certain marriages.

(English text signed by the State President.) (Assented to 30th March, 1972.)

E IT ENACTED by the State President, the Senate and the House of Assembly of the Republic of South Africa, as follows:―

1. The following section is hereby substituted for section 22 of the Marriage Act, 1961 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act):

2. Section 30 of the principal Act is hereby amended by the addition of the following subsection: “(3) If the provisions of this section or any former law relating to the questions to be put to each of the parties separately or to the declaration whereby the marriage shall be declared to be solemnized or to the requirement that the parties shall give each other the right hand, have not been strictly complied with owing to―

an error, omission or oversight committed in good faith by the marriage officer; or an error, omission or oversight committed in good faith by the parties or owing to the physical disability of one or both of the parties,

but such marriage has in every other respect been solemnized in accordance with the provisions of this Act or, as the case may be, a former law, that marriage shall, provided there was no other lawful impediment thereto and provided further that such marriage, if it was solemnized