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Civil Union Act, 2006 (Act No. 17 of 2006)

10. Time and place for and presence of parties and witnesses at solemnisation and registration of civil union

 

1) A marriage officer may solemnise and register a civil union at any time on any day of the week, but is not obliged to solemnise a civil union at any other time than between the hours of eight in the morning and four in the afternoon.

 

2) A marriage officer must solemnise and register a civil union in a public office or private dwelling-house or on the premises used for such purposes by the marriage officer, with open doors and in the presence of the parties themselves and at least two competent witnesses, but the foregoing provisions of this subsection do not prohibit a marriage officer to solemnise a civil union in any place other than a place mentioned herein, if the civil union must be solemnised in such other place by reason of the serious or longstanding illness of, or serious bodily injury to one or both of the parties.

 

3) No person is competent to enter into a civil union through any other person acting as his or her representative.

 

 


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