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FOREIGN MARRIAGE ACT 1892 - SECT 24

Definitions.

24. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,

The expression "Registrar-General" means the Registrar-General of Births,
Deaths, and Marriages in England:

The expression "Attorney-General" means Her Majesty's Attorney-General, or if
there is no such Attorney-General, or the Attorney-General is unable or
incompetent to act, Her Majesty's Solicitor-General, for England:

The expression "the Marriage Registration Acts" means the Act of the session
of the sixth and seventh years of the reign of King William the Fourth,
chapter eighty-six, intituled "An Act for registering births, deaths, and
marriages in England" and the enactments amending the same:

The expression "official house of a marriage officer" means, subject to the
provisions of any marriage regulations, the office at which the business of
such officer is transacted, and the official house of residence of such
officer, and, in the case of any officer, who is an officer for solemnising
marriages in the official house of an ambassador, means the official house of
the ambassador:

The expression "consul" means a consul-general, consul, vice-consul,
pro-consul, or consular agent:

The expression "ambassador" includes a minister and a charge9 d'affaires:

The expression "prescribed" means prescribed by marriage regulations under
this Act.

S.25 rep. by SLR 1908

© 1892 Crown Copyright

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