Hong Kong Ordinances

MARRIAGE ORDINANCE - SECT 22

Marriage by special licence at other place

(Past version on 01/07/1997).
(Past version on 30/06/1997).

Whenever a special licence authorizes the celebration of a marriage at a place
other than a licensed place of worship or the office of the Registrar and such
marriage is not to be celebrated by the Registrar, the Registrar, on taking
the affidavit of one of the parties to the marriage, shall deliver to him or
her a blank certificate of marriage in duplicate, and the minister celebrating
the marriage, the parties, and 2 or more witnesses shall sign the same, in
manner hereinbefore prescribed, and the minister shall deliver one certificate
to the parties, immediately after the marriage, and shall transmit the other
to the Registrar within 7 days thereafter, and the Registrar shall file the
same in his office. (Amended 14 of 1926 s. 5; 27 of 1937 Schedule; 20 of 1948
s. 4; 1 of 1960 s. 12; 71 of 1999 s. 3; 23 of 2005 s. 49)