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CHAPTER NINTH OPPOSITIONS TO MARRIAGE

Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2021)

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CHAPTER NINTH
OPPOSITIONS TO MARRIAGE

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    807.   An appeal to the Court or Judge against the refusal of the Registrar to allow a certificate for marriage to be issued or the marriage to be celebrated shall be made within 15 days from the date of such decision.

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    808.   If the Judge is of opinion that no legal ground has been disclosed in the opposition for forbidding the issue of the certificate he or she may dismiss the opposition without requiring any of the parties to appear.

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    809.   

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    (1)   In other cases the Court or Judge shall summon the parties to the intended marriage and the person by whom the opposition has been entered, and shall require such last-named person to show cause why the district registrar or the Magistrate, or the minister of religion, as the case may be, should not in due course issue his or her certificate.

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    (2)   Every such matter shall be heard and determined in a summary manner, and the Court or Judge may award compensation and costs to the party against whom the opposition was entered, if it appear that such opposition was entered on insufficient grounds.

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    810.   The Court or Judge, before rendering judgment upon the opposition may, if he or she think fit, summon the parents or in default of parents, the friends of the parties to the intended marriage, in order that they may give their opinion upon the intended marriage.

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    811.   If the Court or Judge shall decide that the certificate ought to issue, he or she shall dismiss the opposition and shall make a declaration under his or her hand that the intended marriage is proper and may be solemnized; and a certified copy of such declaration shall be forwarded to the district registrar, or the Magistrate, or the minister of religion, as the case may be, by whom the opposition was referred to the Registrar.

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    812.   On the dismissal of the opposition, the district registrar, or the Magistrate, or the minister of religion, as the case may be, may issued his or her certificate in due course, and the marriage may proceed as if the opposition had not been entered, but the time which has lapsed between the entering and dismissal of the opposition shall not be computed in the period of 3 months specified in article 104 of the Civil Code.

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