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Section 72: Issuing certificate after expiry of notice, or, in case of minor, within fourteen days after notice, or against authorized prohibition.

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

Any Marriage Registrar knowingly and wilfully issuing any certificate for marriage after the expiration of [ two months] after the notice has been entered by him as aforesaid,

fourteen days after notice, or against authorized prohibition.-- or knowingly and wilfully issuing, without the order of a competent Court authorizing him so to do, any certificate for marriage, where one of the parties intending marriage is a minor, before the expiration of fourteen days after the entry of such notice, or any certificate the issue of which has been forbidden as aforesaid by any person authorized in this behalf,

shall be deemed to have committed an offence under section 166 of the Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860).

Where this provision sits

ActThe Indian Christian Marriage Act, 1872
Section72
Marginal noteIssuing certificate after expiry of notice, or, in case of minor, within fourteen days after notice, or against authorized prohibition.
JurisdictionCentral
StatusIn force as published by the source

How this provision has been amended

Taken from the footnotes printed with the provision by the source. Where a footnote names the amending instrument, it is quoted as printed.

  • substituted. . Subs. by s. 8(2), ibid., for "three months".

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