Act Info:
Preamble1 - CHRISTIAN MARRIAGE ACT, 1872
Section1 - Short title
Section2 - Enactments [Repealed]
Section3 - Interpretation-clause
Part I Section4 - Marriages to be solemnized according to Act
Section5 - Persons by whom marriages may be solemnized
Section6 - Grant and revocation of licenses to solemnize marriages
Section7 - Marriage Registrars
Section8 - Marriage Registrars in Indian States [Repealed]
Section9 - Licensing of persons to grant certificates of marriage between Indian Christians
Part II Section10 - Time for solemnizing marriage
Section11 - Place for solemnizing marriage
Part III Section12 - Notice of intended marriage
Section13 - Publication of such notice
Section14 - Notice of intended marriage in private dwelling
Section15 - Sending copy to notice to Marriage Registrar when one party is a minor
Section16 - Procedure on receipt of notice
Section17 - Issue of certificate of notice given and declaration made
Section18 - Declaration before issue of certificate
Section19 - Consent of father, or guardian, or mother
Section20 - Power to prohibit by notice issue of certificate
Section21 - Procedure on receipt of notice
Section22 - Issue of certificate in case of minority
Section23 - Issue of certificates to Indian Christians
Section24 - Form of certificate
Section25 - Solemnization of marriage
Section26 - Certificate void if marriage not solemnized within two months
Part IV Section27 - Marriages when to be registered
Section28 - Registration of marriages solemnized by Clergymen of Church of England
Section29 - Quarterly returns to Archdeaconry
Section30 - Registration and returns of marriages solemnized by Clergymen of Church of Rome
Section31 - Registration and returns of marriages solemnized by Clergymen of Church of Scotland
Section32 - Certain marriages to be registered in duplicate
Section33 - Entries of such marriages to be signed and attested
Section34 - Certificate to be forwarded to Marriage Registrar, copied and sent to Registrar General
Section35 - Copies of certificates to be entered and numbered
Section36 - Registrar to add number of entry to certificate, and send to Registrar General
Section37 - Registration of marriages between Indian Christians, by persons referred to in clauses (1), (2) and (3) of section 5
Part V Section38 - Notice of intended marriage before Marriage Registrar
Section39 - Publication of notice
Section40 - Notice to be filed and copy entered in Marriage Notice Book
Section41 - Certificate of notice given and oath made
Section42 - Oath before issue of certificate
Section43 - Petition to High Court to order certificate in less than fourteen days
Section44 - Consent of father or guardian
Section45 - Petition where person whose consent is necessary is insane, or unjustly withholds consent
Section46 - Petition when Marriage Registrar refuses certificate
Section47 - Petition when Marriage Registrar in Indian State refuses certificate
Section48 - Petition when Registrar doubts authority of person forbidding
Section49 - Liability for frivolous protest against issue of certificate
Section50 - Form of certificate
Section51 - Solemnization of marriage after issue of certificate
Section52 - When marriage not had within two months after notice, new notice required
Section53 - Marriage Registrar may ask for particulars to be registered
Section54 - Registration of marriages solemnized under Part V
Section55 - Certificates to be sent monthly to Registrar General
Section56 - Officers to whom Registrars in Indian States shall send certificates
Section57 - Registrars to ascertain that notice certificate are understood by Indian Christians
Section58 - Indian Christians to be made to understand declarations
Section59 - Registration of marriages between Indian Christians
PartVI - MARRIAGE OF INDIAN CHRISTIANS
Section60 - On what conditions marriages of Indian Christians may be certified
Section61 - Grant of certificate
Section62 - Keeping of register-book and deposit of extracts there from with Registrar General
Section63 - Searches in register book and copies of entries
Section64 - Books in which marriages of Indian Christians under Part I or Part III are registered
Section65 - Part VI not to apply to Roman Catholics. Saving of certain marriages
PartVII - PENALTIES
Section66 - False oath, declaration, notice or certificate for procuring marriage
Section67 - Forbidding, by false personation, issue of certificate by Marriage Registrar
Section68 - Solemnizing marriage without due authority
Section69 - Solemnizing marriage out of proper time, or without witnesses
Section70 - Solemnizing, without notice or within fourteen days after notice, marriage with minor
Section71 - Issuing certificate
Section72 - Issuing certificate after expiry of notice, or, in case of minor, within fourteen days after notice, or against authorized prohibition
Section73 - Persons authorized to solemnize marriage (other than Clergy of Churches of England, Scotland or Rome)
Section74 - Unlicensed person granting certificate pretending to be licensed
Section75 - Destroying or falsifying register-books
Section76 - Limitation of prosecutions under Act
Part VIII Section77 - What matters need not be proved in respect of marriage in accordance with Act
Section78 - Corrections of errors
Section79 - Searches and copies of entries
Section80 - Certified copy of entry in marriage-register, etc., to be evidence
Section81 - Certificates of certain marriages to be sent to Central Government
Section82 - State Government to prescribe fees
Section83 - Power to make rules
Section84 - Power to prescribe fees and rules for Indian States [Repealed]
Section85 - Power to declare who shall be District Judge
Section86 - Powers and functions exercisable as regards Indian States[Repealed]
Section87 - Saving of consular marriages
Section88 - Non-validation of marriages within prohibited degrees
ScheduleI - FIRST SCHEDULE
ScheduleII - SECOND SCHEDULE
ScheduleIII - THIRD SCHEDULE
ScheduleIV - FOURTH SCHEDULE
ScheduleV - FIFTH SCHEDULE