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Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration (Amendment) Act 1989
Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration (Amendment)
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BIRTHS, DEATHS AND MARRIAGES
REGISTRATION (AMENDMENT) ACT 1989

NO 12 OF 1989

AN ACT TO AMEND THE BIRTHS, DEATHS AND MARRIAGES
REGISTRATION ACT

I assent,
TAUFA’AHAU TUPOU IV

18th October, 1989

[18th October, 1989]

BE IT ENACTED by the King and Legislative Assembly of Tonga in the
Legislature of the Kingdom as follows:

1.
(1) This Act may be cited as the Births, Deaths and Marriages

Registration (Amendment) Act 1989.
(2) The Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act, as amended, is

in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

2. Section 4 of the Principal Act is deleted and replaced by the following:

“4. The Registrar General may make regulations prescribing all matters
which by this Act are required or permitted to be prescribed, or which axe
necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect
to this Act.”

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Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration (Amendment)

Act 1989

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3. Section 8 of the Principal Act is amended:
(a) by numbering that provision as subsection (1); and
(b) by inserting the following as subsection (2);

“(2) Notwithstanding the residential requirements provided under
subsection (1) of this section, the Registrar General may grant a
special licence to marry where at least one of the applicants has an
established link with the Kingdom.”.