Registration of Marriages Act · s 10

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10.
Refusal or postponement of registration
(1) If the Registrar is not satisfied of the truth of any statement made to him, he may refuse to register the marriage or if he requires evidence with regard to any particulars required to be registered, he may postpone registration and he may call for any further evidence that he thinks necessary:
Provided that the Registrar shall record in the Registrar’s Notebook his reasons for any such refusal or postponement.
(2) If —
(a) the Registrar has reason to believe on the evidence of any person that a marriage between the parties is prohibited by the institutions of the religion professed by either party; or
(b) both profess the same religion by the institutions of that religion or by the law or custom having the force of law applicable to either party, he shall refuse to register the marriage.
(3) In any case in which the parties profess different religions, the
Registrar may, if he thinks proper, refuse to register the marriage.
(4) The Registrar shall not register any marriage unless one of the parties thereto is ordinarily resident within Brunei Darussalam.
(5) There shall be no appeal from the cancellation by a Registrar of the registration of a marriage or from the refusal of a Registrar to register a marriage, but such refusal shall not prevent that Registrar or another
Registrar from registering it if subsequently satisfied that the grounds for his refusal to register either did not exist or have since been removed.

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s 10Refusal or postponement of registration

(1)

If the Registrar is not satisfied of the truth of any statement made to him, he may refuse to register the marriage or if he requires evidence with regard to any particulars required to be registered, he may postpone registration and he may call for any further evidence that he thinks necessary:

Provided that the Registrar shall record in the Registrar’s Notebook his reasons for any such refusal or postponement.

(2)

If —

(a)

the Registrar has reason to believe on the evidence of any person that a marriage between the parties is prohibited by the institutions of the religion professed by either party; or

(b)

both profess the same religion by the institutions of that religion or by the law or custom having the force of law applicable to either party, he shall refuse to register the marriage.

(3)

In any case in which the parties profess different religions, the

Registrar may, if he thinks proper, refuse to register the marriage.

(4)

The Registrar shall not register any marriage unless one of the parties thereto is ordinarily resident within Brunei Darussalam.

(5)

There shall be no appeal from the cancellation by a Registrar of the registration of a marriage or from the refusal of a Registrar to register a marriage, but such refusal shall not prevent that Registrar or another

Registrar from registering it if subsequently satisfied that the grounds for his refusal to register either did not exist or have since been removed.

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