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 by the official without further examination of the matter.

64. Persons making deliberately false statements with a view to preventing the contracting of a marriage shall be liable to prosecution for perjury and to an action for damages caused by their interference.

65. Appeals against a refusal to register a marriage may be brought at any time before the local court within whose jurisdiction the respective Bureau of Vital Statistics is located.

66. Persons intending to marry must have attained the matrimonial age. The matrimonial age ahall be sixteen years for females and eighteen years for males.

67. Persons intending to marry must be of sound mind.

68. No person shall be capable of contracting a new marriage who is already living in a state of registered marriage or of unregistered marriage having the same validity as registered marriage.