Digest of decisions relating to the Poor Law of Scotland : with decisions under the Lands Valuation, Public Health, and Education Acts : with relative statutes / by John Alexander Reid.

  • Reid, John Alexander.
Date:
1880
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Credit: Digest of decisions relating to the Poor Law of Scotland : with decisions under the Lands Valuation, Public Health, and Education Acts : with relative statutes / by John Alexander Reid. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    IV.—Act 41 & 42 Vict., c. 43, 8th August 1878. Ad Act to encourage Kegular Marriages in Scotland. Whekeas it is expedient in order to encourage the celebration of regular marriages in that part of the United Kingdom called Scotland, that provision should be made for tbe celebration of such marriage after notice to registrars : Be it enacted by the Queen's most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows : I In this Act— 1 Eegistrar means the registrar of births, deaths, and mar- riafjes for a parish or district under the Act of the seven- teenth and eighteenth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter eighty, intituled An Act to provide for the better Eegistration of Births, Deaths, and Marriages in Scotland, and the Acts amending the same : _ 2 Kecvistrar General means the Eegistrar General of births, deaths, and marriages in Scotland appointed under the said Act of the seventeenth and eighteenth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, and the Acts amending the 3 Parish and district have the meanings attached to them respectively in the said Act of the seventeenth and eighteenth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, and the Acts amending the same: t^/t • II. This Act may be cited for all purposes, as the Marriage Notice (Scotland) Act 1878. Commencement of Act TIT This Act shaU commence and come into operation on the first day of January one thousand eight hundred and seventy- nine, which date is hereinafter referred to as the commencement of the Act. Ministers, etc., may eelehrate Marriages on Registrar's Certificate. TV -Rrnm and after the commencement of this Act it shaU be ^ 7 Wnrrninisters clerc^ymen, or priests in Scotland to cele- lawful for -7'^^^^^^^ s^'ch publication of notice of an brate mai^iages th^^^^^^^^^ prescribed, and upon production intention to marry^^^^^^^^^^ or priest of a certificate or certi- orates of suS^^^^^^^ ^« prescribed; and any Wa.e srclto^^^ shall be deemed to be a regular marriage