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Amendment of section 51 of Act of 2004
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21. Section 51 of the Act of 2004 is amended—
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(a) in subsection (4)(b), by—
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(i) the substitution of “declaration by each of the parties to the marriage” for “declaration by the parties to the marriage”, and
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(ii) the substitution of “to the effect that each of them accepts the other as a husband, a wife or a spouse, as the case may be” for “to the effect that they accept each other as husband and wife”,
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and
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(b) by the substitution of the following subsection for subsection (7) —
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“(7) The parties to a marriage solemnised in accordance with this Act shall be taken to be married to each other when each of them has made a declaration in the presence of the other, the registered solemniser and the two witnesses that each of them accepts the other as a husband, a wife or a spouse, as the case may be.”.
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