Revised Laws of Mauritius

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CIVIL STATUS (AMENDMENT) ACT 2004 Act 22 of 2004 – 5 August 2004

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

SECTION 1. Short title 2. Interpretation 3 to 9. — 9. Section 19A of principal Act

amended 10. Section 35 of principal Act

amended

11. Section 62 of principal Act amended

12. Schedule to principal Act re- pealed and replaced

13. Commencement SCHEDULE



CIVIL STATUS (AMENDMENT) ACT 2004

1. Short title

This Act may be cited as the Civil Status (Amendment) Act 2004.

2. Interpretation

In this Act—

“principal Act” means the Civil Status Act.

3 to 9. Amendments have been incorporated into Act 23 of 1981.

10. Section 35 of principal Act amended

Section 35 of the principal Act is amended in subsection (1) (b) (i), by de- leting the words “prescribed fee” and replacing them by the words “appro- priate fee specified in the Schedule”.

11. Section 62 of principal Act amended

Section 62 of the principal Act is amended—

(a) in subsection (1), by deleting the words “levied by means of stamps” and replacing them by the words “paid to the Registrar of Civil Status or any District Court Cash Office”;

(b) by repealing subsection (2).

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12. Schedule to principal Act repealed and replaced

The Schedule to the principal Act is repealed and replaced by the Sched- ule to this Act.

13. Commencement

(1) Subject to subsection (2), this Act shall come into force on the date of its publication in the Gazette.

(2) Sections 10, 11 and 12 shall come into force on a date to be fixed by Proclamation.



SCHEDULE [Section 12]

SCHEDULE [Sections 9, 35, 58 and 62]

Fees (Rs) 1. For certificate, other than the first certificate delivered .................... 50 2. For copy of entry ........................................................................ 1 00 3. For any change of name .............................................................. 1 000 4. For marriage celebrated in private residential premises ..................... 1 000 5. For marriage celebrated in hotels and private premises other than pri-

vate residential premises .............................................................. 2 500



Revised Laws of Mauritius

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CIVIL STATUS REGISTERS RECONSTITUTION ACT

EDITORIAL NOTE: Civil Status Registers Reconstitution Acts were en- acted in 1969, 1977 and 1984 following the loss or destruction of certain registers. These enabled the Registrar of Civil Status to take steps to recon- stitute the missing registers and any interested person to make representa- tions in that behalf. The Acts provided that, after the expiry of certain time- limits (long since spent), no reconstitution may be made except upon an or- der of the District Magistrate after reference to the Ministère Public. The texts of those Acts are not reproduced.