FOREIGN MARRIAGE ACT 1963

[Consolidated as at 1 August 2002

on the authority of the Administrator

and in accordance with

the Enactments Reprinting Act 1980]

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

         1.      Short title

         2.      Repeal

Foreign Marriage Act 1963

An Act to repeal the Foreign Marriage Act 1916

Short title

      1.         This Act may be cited as the Foreign Marriage Act 1963.

Repeal

      2.         (1)        The Foreign Marriage Act 1916 is repealed.

                  (2)        The Foreign Marriage Act 1916 continues to apply, notwithstanding its repeal, to and in relation to a notice given under section 3* of that Act before the commencement of this Act.

*Section 3 of the Foreign Marriage Act 1916 reads as follows:

“    3.         (1)        A notice of marriage intended to be solemnised under the Foreign Marriage Act may be given by one of the parties intending such marriage, who has had his or her usual place of abode for  a period of not less than one week immediately preceding in Norfolk Island, to the Registrar of Marriages in Norfolk Island.

                  (2)        A notice under subsection 3(1) shall be published by proclamation of bans or in such other manner as may be prescribed.”.

NOTES

The Foreign Marriage Act 1963 as shown in this consolidation comprises Act No. 7 of 1963.

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