Page:Marriage Amendment Act 1981 from Government Gazette.djvu/2

2   No. 7506

GENERAL EXPLANATORY NOTE

To amend the Marriage Act, 1961, so as to grant to the Minister and certain officers the power to direct that a person who acted as marriage officer in respect of the marriage of persons who believed that such person was in fact a marriage officer, shall for the purposes of the Act be deemed to have been duly designated as a marriage officer; to extend the power to grant permission to certain persons to contract marriages; and to compel a marriage officer who solemnizes a marriage to complete a certificate on the prescribed form; and to provide for matters connected therewith.

(Afrikaans text signed by the State President.) (Assented to 3 March 1981.)

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

1. The following section is hereby substituted for section 6 of the Marriage Act, 1961: