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(1) Where any persen who is a eitizen of or is domiciled Registration ,Malaysia has contracted a marriage .abroad, not marriage by being a marriage registered under section 26 such aperson person shall within six months after the date of such citizen of or marriage appear before the nearest or most conveniently • in Malaysia. available Registrar of Marriages abroad in order to register such marriage unless betore the expury oi such period th eturn of either or both parties to Malaysia is contemplatec in which case, egistered abroad, registration of the marriage contracte broad shall be effected, within six months of the first arriva of either or both the parties in Malaysia, by such party or both appearing before any Registrar in Malaysia and— (a) producing to such Registrar the certificate of such marriage or such evidence either oral or documentary as may satisty the Registrar that such marriage (b) furnishing such particulars as may be required by the Registrar for the due registration of such marziage; and (c) applying in the prescribed form for the registration of the marriage to be effected and subscribing the -deelaration therein. (IA)> (1B) (Pt. IV, S. 31-33] (2) A Registrar may dispense with the appearance of one t the parties to the marriage it he is satistied that ther exists good and sufficient reason for the absence of suc] party and in such case the entry in the marriage register shall include a statement of the reason for his or her absence. Salo A498 Unlawlul registers. /oluntar cgistratio period as may be prescribed, to the Registrar-General of Marriages who shall cause such certified copies to be bounc together to constitute the Foreign Marriages Register. (4) Where the parties to a marriage required to be registered under this section have not appeared beiore a Registrai within the period as prescribed in subsection (1), the med by mim upo nayment of such penaitras beryi prescribed. 32 Nopofiola bricda lanenkogara acinruda nreganes Act shall— a) Keep any book being or purporting to be a registe ept in accordance with the provisions of thi Act; or (b) issue to any person any document being or purporting to be a copy of a certificate of a marriage or a certificate of marriage registered by the Registrar.