Chinese Marriage Act · 2012 Revised Edition
4. Chinese marriages to be registered
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
Every Chinese marriage contracted within Brunei Darussalam shall be registered within one month with the Registrar of the district in which the husband resides:
Chinese marriage
“Chinese marriage” means a marriage contracted according to established Chinese law or custom and include a marriage constituted by the marital intercourse of persons betrothed according to such law or custom. Registrars.
Provided that if application for registration is made within one month, the period for registration shall be extended by such additional period as may be necessary finally to dispose of such application and to carry out any registration ordered.
No such marriage shall be valid unless so registered:
Provided that the Court of a Magistrate may, on the application of either party or of any person interested, declare that the marriage is valid if satisfied that it is otherwise valid by established Chinese law or custom.
If Court of a Magistrate declares an unregistered marriage to be valid, the marriage, on payment of the prescribed fee, shall be registered forthwith.
Subject to the provisions of section 5, a Chinese marriage contracted within Brunei Darussalam before the commencement of this Act, or contracted outside Brunei Darussalam either before or after the commencement of this Act, may be registered on the application of either party.
The validity of an unregistered Chinese marriage contracted within Brunei Darussalam before the commencement of this Act, or contracted outside Brunei Darussalam either before or after the commencement of this Act, shall be decided by application to the Court of a
Magistrate, which may order such marriage to be registered forthwith.
Terms defined in s 2
Chinese marriage
Defined · s 2“Chinese marriage” means a marriage contracted according to established Chinese law or custom and include a marriage constituted by the marital intercourse of persons betrothed according to such law or custom. Registrars.