Section 8: Entries

8. Entries (1) Every entry shall be in English and French and shall state the names, NIC number, profession and address of every person mentioned in the entry and the year, month and day the entry is made. (2) No officer shall mention or record in any entry anything beyond what parties are required to declare to him. (3) Except where the personal attendance of any person before an officer is required under any enactment for the purpose of making an entry, that person may be represented before the officer by another person duly appointed as agent by authentic deed. (4) Any person other than a minor may be a witness to a marriage entry. (5) (a) An officer shall, immediately after recording an entry, read out the contents of the entry to the parties and to any witnesses. (b) Where a party or a witness does not understand the English or French language, the officer shall explain the contents of the entry to that person in a language which the person understands. (6) (a) The officer, the parties and the witnesses shall sign the register. (b) Where any of the parties or his witnesses is unable to sign, he may affix his mark and the mark shall for all intents and purposes have the effect of a signature. (7) Where the identity of a person can be established, no entry shall be invalid on the ground that the names of that person in that entry are untrue or incorrect or that there is an error, discrepancy or variance in the description of that person. [S. 8 amended by Act 8 of 1997; s. 4 of Act 40 of 2001 w.e.f. 1 September 2003.]