Section 27Part 0 —
How marriage to be solemnised and conditions to be observed
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After the issue of a Civil Registrar’s certificate or Civil Registrars’ certificates, or a Marriage Officer’s certificate or Marriage Officers’ certificates or a Civil Registrar’s certificate in the case of one of the parties and of a Marriage Officer’s certificate in the case of the other party, or a licence or special licence from the Governor, the marriage may be solemnised between the parties described in the certificate, licence or special licence, according to such form and ceremony as the parties may see fit to adopt:
Provided that every such marriage shall be solemnised in the presence of a Marriage Officer and of two witnesses between the hours of six a.m. and eight p.m. with open doors:
And provided also that the certificate or certificates, or if the marriage is by licence or special licence, the licence or special licence shall be first delivered to the Marriage Officer by or before whom the marriage is solemnised:
And provided also that in some part of the ceremony or immediately before the ceremony, and in the presence of such Marriage Officer and witnesses, each of the parties shall declare —
I do solemnly declare that I know not of any lawful impediment why I, A.B. may not be joined in matrimony to C.D.
And each of the parties shall say to the other —
I call upon these persons here present to witness that I, A.B., do take (or have now taken) thee, C.D., to be my lawful wife (or husband):
Provided also that there be no lawful impediment to the marriage of such parties.