Marriage and Registration Act, 1856

Superintendent Registrar may grant Licence for Marriage to be solemnized in registered Building out of the District wherein the Parties reside.

XIV. When any Marriage is intended to be solemnized, under the Provisions of any of the before-recited Acts or of this Act, in the usual Place of Worship of the Parties so intending Marriage, or One of them, and such Place of Worship shall be a registered Building situated out of the District of their, his, or her Residence, it shall be lawful for the Superintendent Registrar or respective Superintendent Registrars to whom Notice of such Marriage shall have been given to grant to the Party applying for the same a Licence or Certificate, as the Case may be, for such Marriage to be solemnized in the registered Building stated in such Notice, provided such Building be situated not more than Two Miles beyond the Limits of the District in which the Notice of such Marriage has been given, and the Party giving Notice of such Marriage shall at the Time of giving the same state therein, in addition to the Description of the Building in which the Marriage is to be solemnized, that it is the usual Place of Worship of One of the Parties, and shall also state the Name of the Party whose usual Place of Worship it is; and every Licence and Certificate granted in pursuance of this Enactment shall be as valid and effectual, to all Intents and Purposes, as if the same had been granted by the Superintendent Registrar of the District in which the registered Building wherein the Marriage is intended to be solemnized is situated.