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(1) Where any clergyman or minister or priest of any church or temple is appointed by the Minister to act as Assistant Registrar of Marriages for any marriage district, such clergyman or minister or priest may after delivery to him of a statutory declaration under subsection (3) oi section 22 solemnise any marriage, if the parties to the marriage or elther of them protess the religion to which the church or temple belong, in accordance with the rites and ceremonies of that religion. (2) Where any person is appointed by the Minister to act as Assistant Registrar of Marriages for any marriage listrict such person may after delivery to him a statutory declaration under subsection (3) of section 22 solemnise ny martlage in accordance with the custom or usage whic he parties to the marriage or either of them practise (3) An Assistant Registrar solemnising a marriage under this section shall in some part of the ceremony remind the parties that either of them shall be incapable during the commit an offence. (4) In this section, '"priest of a temple" includes any member of a committee t, management or governing body of that temple and an ominittee member of any religious associatior :"priest of a church" includes any officer or elder of the church [Pt. II, S. 25-26] LAW REFORM (MARRIAGEAND DIVORCE) 25.02411 peodiatmed fhier eistrotenmall eion und pre sectiod partee particulars in the marriage register. (2) Such entry shall be attested by the parties to the narriage and by two witnesses other than the Registra: resent at the solemnisation of the marriage (3) Such entry shall then be signed by the Registrar solemnising the marriage.