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Section 48: Petition when Registrar doubts authority of person forbidding.

The Indian Christian Marriage Act, 1872Central Act · Act 15 of 1872

Whenever a Marriage Registrar, acting under the provisions of section 44, is not satisfied that the person forbidding the issue of the certificate is authorized by law so to do, the said Marriage Registrar shall apply by petition, where his district is within any of the towns of Calcutta, Madras and Bombay, to a Judge of the High Court, or if such district be not within any of the said towns, then to the District Judge.

Procedure on petition.-- The said petition shall state all the circumstances of the case, and pray for the order and direction of the Court concerning the same,

and the said Judge of the High Court or District Judge, as the case may be, shall examine into the allegations of the petition and the circumstances of the case,

and if, upon such examination, it appears, that the person forbidding the issue of such certificate is not authorized by law so to do, such Judge of the High Court or District Judge, as the case may be, shall declare that the person forbidding the issue of such certificate is not authorized as aforesaid,

and thereupon such certificate shall be issued, and the like proceedings may be had in relation to such marriage as if the issue had not been forbidden.

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ActThe Indian Christian Marriage Act, 1872
Section48
Marginal notePetition when Registrar doubts authority of person forbidding.
JurisdictionCentral
StatusIn force as published by the source

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  • omitted. . Omitted by the A. O. 1950.

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