that a customary marriage or a validated marriage, as the case may be. subsists between the parties, and the District Court shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine any such application.
Power of Registrar. 10. (1) Upon receipt of an application under section 9 for the registration of a customary marriage or a validated marriage, the Registrar may—
- (a) summon before him any applicant, any alleged party to the marriage and any person alleged to have been present at the marriage, and may require any person so summoned to answer such questions as the Registrar may ask for the purpose of determining the application before him;
- (b) require any applicant to furnish such further information either by statutory declaration or otherwise as he may reasonably require.
(2) Any person who, without lawful excuse, fails to comply with a summons or requirement issued or made under subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable to a fine of one thousand dollars and to imprisonment for six months.
Effect of certificate of marriage registered under this Part. 11. A certificate of marriage registered under this Part, or a copy of such a certificate, shall if it purports to be signed and certified as a true copy by the Registrar and to be sealed or stamped with his official seal be admissible as evidence of the marriage to which it relates in any court and before any person having by law or by consent of parties authority to hear, receive, and examine evidence.
Correction of error in certificate of marriage. 12. The Registrar may correct any clerical error in any certificate of marriage registered under this Part on production to him of the certificate delivered to the parties, and shall authenticate every such correction by his signature, or by marking the same with his initials, and the date of making the correction.
Searches may be made and certified copies granted. 13. The Registrar may allow searches to be made amongst all certificates, registers and indices in his possession for the purposes of this Part and may give a certified copy of any entry therein, and issue a certificate that there is no record of a marriage between certain named persons having been registered under this Part.
PART V.
Dissolution of validated marriages and customary marriages.
Dissolution of validated marriages.
14. The dissolution, at any time before the appointed day, of a validated marriage by the mutual consent of the parties to the marriage signified by the signature of each of the parties in