Montserrat - Apply for Marriage Licence

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Procedure

1. Couples who are intending to get married, are required to publish marriage banns at least 3 months before their target date marriage date. Contact your local parish to know more about marriage banns.
2. The officiating minister where the banns have been duly published will issued a certificate of the banns. You will need to present the certificate when you apply for a marriage licence later on.
3. Applicants will need to go the Office of the Registrar - General to obtain a marriage licence. They will need to complete and submit an application together with documents that will prove that they are legally free to get married and of legal age and proof of identity.
4. After the marriage licence is issued, the couple must submit a notice of marriage. Twenty-one days after the notice was entered in the Registrar's Book and no objection was filed, the Registrar will issue a certificate of notice. The couple may now proceed with the marriage solemnization and celebration.

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Required Documents

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1. Proof of child birth from the Hospital.

Office Locations & Contacts

Office of the Registrar
Phone : 664-491-2454/2455
Government Listings

Eligibility

A person aged between the 18 and 16 may not get married without obtaining permission from their parents first.

A marriage solemnized between persons either of whom is under the age of sixteen shall be void:
Provided that the Governor may, in his discretion, if for serious reasons he considers it to be in the interest of the intending spouses so to do, grant a licence to marry to any person under the age of sixteen but over the age of fifteen; and the exercise of such discretion by the Governor shall not be enquired into by any Court provided all the necessary consents to such marriage have been previously obtained by the parties thereto.

Fees

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Validity

The marriage celebration must take place, 3 months after the marriage licence was issued.

If the licence is not used within that period, the licence will be deemed void and applicants will need to apply for a new one.

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Processing Time

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Instructions

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Required Information

• the Christian or other names and surnames of the parties, their respective rank, profession or occupation;
• whether the marriage is to be solemnized or celebrated by a Marriage Officer or by the Registrar-General, and if by a Marriage Officer, the place where, and the Marriage Officer
• by whom, the marriage is to be solemnized;
• whether the parties or either of them have or has been previously married;
• that they know of no impediment of kindred or alliance or other lawful cause to prevent the proposed marriage

Need for the Document

This procedure provides you information on how you can apply for a marriage licence in Montserrat.

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Other uses of the Document/Certificate

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External Links

Marriage Act

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