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Indian Christian Marriage Act, 1872

Indian Christian Marriage Act, 1872 provides law relating to the solemnization of Christian marriages in India. The Act consists of total 88 sections. Get a detailed description of all the sections of the Indian Christian Marriage Act, 1872 only at easyadvocacy.

Section	Title
Section- 1	Section - 1. Short title Chapter 1
Section- 2	Section - 2. Enactments repealed. Chapter 1
Section- 3	Section - 3. Interpretation clause Chapter 1
Section- 4	Section - 4. Marriages to be solemnized according to Act Chapter 1
Section- 5	Section - 5. Persons by whom marriages may be solemnized Chapter 1
Section- 6	Section - 6. Grant and revocation of licenses to solemnize marriages Chapter 1
Section- 7	Section - 7. Marriage Registrars Chapter 1
Section- 8	Section - 8. Omitted Chapter 1
Section- 9	Section - 9. Licensing of persons to grant certificates of marriage between Indian Christians Chapter 1
Section- 10	Section - 10. Time for solemnizing marriage Chapter 1
Section- 11	Section - 11. Place for solemnizing marriage Chapter 1
Section- 12	Section - 12. Notice of intended marriage. Chapter 1
Section- 13	Section - 13. Publication of such notice Chapter 1
Section- 14	Section - 14. Notice of intended marriage in private dwelling Chapter 1
Section- 15	Section - 15. Sending copy of notice to Marriage Registrar when one party is a minor Chapter 1
Section- 16	Section - 16. Procedure on receipt of notice Chapter 1
Section- 17	Section - 17. Issue of certificate of notice given and declaration made Chapter 1
Section- 18	Section - 18. Declaration before issue of certificate Chapter 1
Section- 19	Section - 19. Consent of father, or guardian, or mother Chapter 1
Section- 20	Section - 20. Power to prohibit by notice issue of certificate. Chapter 1
Section- 21	Section - 21. Procedure on receipt of notice Chapter 1
Section- 22	Section - 22. Issue of certificate in case of minority Chapter 1
Section- 23	Section - 23. Issue of certificates to Indian Christians Chapter 1
Section- 24	Section - 24. Form of certificate Chapter 1
Section- 25	Section - 25. Solemnization of marriage Chapter 1
Section- 26	Section - 26. Certificate void if marriage not solemnized within two months Chapter 1
Section- 27	Section - 27. Marriages when to be registered Chapter 1
Section- 28	Section - 28. Registration of marriages solemnized by Clergymen of Church of England Chapter 1
Section- 29	Section - 29. Quarterly returns to Archdeaconry Chapter 1
Section- 30	Section - 30. Registration and returns of marriages solemnized by Clergymen of Church of Rome Chapter 1
Section- 31	Section - 31. Registration and returns of marriages solemnized by Clergymen of Church of Scotland Chapter 1
Section- 32	Section - 32. Certain marriages to be registered in duplicate. Chapter 1
Section- 33	Section - 33. Entries of such marriages to be signed and attested Chapter 1
Section- 34	Section - 34. Certificate to be forwarded to Marriages Registrar, copied and sent to Registrar General Chapter 1
Section- 35	Section - 35. Copies of certificates to be entered and numbered Chapter 1
Section- 36	Section - 36. Registrar to add number of entry to certificate, and send to Registrar General Chapter 1
Section- 37	Section - 37. Registration of marriages between Indian Christians, by persons referred to in clauses (1), (2) and (3) of section 5 Chapter 1
Section- 38	Section - 38. Notice of intended marriage before Marriage Registrar Chapter 1
Section- 39	Section - 39. Publication of notice Chapter 1
Section- 40	Section - 40. Notice to be filed and copy entered in Marriage Notice Book Chapter 1
Section- 41	Section - 41. Certificate of notice given and oath made Chapter 1
Section- 42	Section - 42. Oath before issue of certificate Chapter 1
Section- 43	Section - 43. Petition to High Court to order certificate in less than fourteen days Chapter 1
Section- 44	Section - 44. Consent of father or guardian Chapter 1
Section- 45	Section - 45. Petition where person whose consent is necessary is insane, or unjustly withholds consent Chapter 1
Section- 46	Section - 46. Petition when Marriage Registrar refuses certificate Chapter 1
Section- 47	Section - 47. Omitted Chapter 1
Section- 48	Section - 48. Petition when Registrar doubts authority of person forbidding Chapter 1
Section- 49	Section - 49. . Liability for frivolous protest against issue of certificate Chapter 1
Section- 50	Section - 50. Form of certificate Chapter 1
Section- 51	Section - 51. Solemnization of marriage after issue of certificate Chapter 1
Section- 52	Section - 52. When marriage not had within two months after notice, new notice required Chapter 1
Section- 53	Section - 53. Marriage Registrar may ask for particulars to be registered. Chapter 1
Section- 54	Section - 54. Registration of marriages solemnized under part V Chapter 1
Section- 55	Section - 55. Certificates to be sent monthly to Registrar General Chapter 1
Section- 56	Section - 56. Omitted Chapter 1
Section- 57	Section - 57. Registrars to ascertain that notice and certificate are understood by Indian Christians. Chapter 1
Section- 58	Section - 58. . Indian Christians to be made to understand declarations Chapter 1
Section- 59	Section - 59. Registration of marriages between Indian Christians Chapter 1
Section- 60	Section - 60. On what conditions marriages of 1 [Indian Christians] may be certified Chapter 1
Section- 61	Section - 61. Grant of certificate Chapter 1
Section- 62	Section - 62. Keeping of register-book and deposit of extracts therefrom with Registrar General Chapter 1
Section- 63	Section - 63. Searches in register book and copies of entries Chapter 1
Section- 64	Section - 64. Books in which marriages of Indian Christians under Part I or Part III are registered Chapter 1
Section- 65	Section - 65. Part VI not to apply to Roman Catholics Chapter 1
Section- 66	Section - 66. False oath, declaration, notice or certificate for procuring marriage Chapter 1
Section- 67	Section - 67. Forbidding, by false personation issue of certificate by Marriage Registrar Chapter 1
Section- 68	Section - 68. . Solemnizing marriage without due authority Chapter 1
Section- 69	Section - 69. . Solemnizing marriage out of proper time, or without witnesses Chapter 1
Section- 70	Section - 70. Solemnizing without notice or within fourteen days after notice, marriage with minor Chapter 1
Section- 71	Section - 71. Issuing certificate, or marrying, without publication of notice Chapter 1
Section- 72	Section - 72. Issuing certificate after expiry of notice, or, in case of minor, within fourteen days after notice, or against authorized prohibition Chapter 1
Section- 73	Section - 73. Persons authorized to solemnize marriage (other than Clergy of Churches of England, Scotland or Rome) Chapter 1
Section- 74	Section - 74. Unlicensed person granting certificate pretending to be licensed Chapter 1
Section- 75	Section - 75. Destroying or falsifying register-books Chapter 1
Section- 76	Section - 76. Limitation of prosecutions under Act Chapter 1
Section- 77	Section - 77. What matters need not be proved in respect of marriage in accordance with Act Chapter 1
Section- 78	Section - 78. Corrections of errors Chapter 1
Section- 79	Section - 79 . Searches and copies of entries Chapter 1
Section- 80	Section - 80. Certified copy of entry in marriage-register, etc., to be evidence Chapter 1
Section- 81	Section - 81. Certificates of certain marriages to be sent to Central Government Chapter 1
Section- 82	Section - 82. State Government to prescribe fees Chapter 1
Section- 83	Section - 83. Power to make rules Chapter 1
Section- 84	Section - 84. Omitted Chapter 1
Section- 85	Section - 85. Power to declare who shall be District Judge Chapter 1
Section- 86	Section - 86. Omitted Chapter 1
Section- 87	Section - 87. Saving of Consular marriages Chapter 1
Section- 88	Section - 88. Non-validation of marriages within prohibited degrees Chapter 1
Section-	SCHEDULE I : NOTICE OF MARRIAGE Chapter 1
Section-	Foot Notes Chapter 1

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