Section 61, The National Civil Registration Act, 2016

(1) After the solemnisation of a marriage, the marriageregistration form relating to the marriage shall be signed by- (a) each of the parties to the marriage; (b) two witnesses to the solemnisation of the marriage; and (c) the person who solemnised the marriage. (2) Either of the parties to a marriage shall give to a Registration Officer, within one month from the date of the marriage, the marriage registration form duly completed in accordance with subsection (1). (3) A Registration Officer shall, as soon as practicable after he receives a marriage registration form under subsection (2), enter the particulars in relation to the marriage concerned specified in the form in the Register of Marriages in such manner as the Authority may direct. (4) Subject to subsection (5), a Registration Officer shall not register a marriage if he has not received the relevant marriage registration form. (5) Where a Registration Officer is satisfied that the marriage registration form relating to a duly solemnised marriage has been lost, destroyed or damaged, he may - (a) direct the appropriate officer to complete another marriage registration form and arrange, in so far as it is practicable to do so, for its signature by the persons referred to in subsection (1); and (b) on receipt of a completed marriage registration form under paragraph (a), enter the particulars in relation to the marriage specified in the form in the Register of Marriages in such manner as the Authority may direct. . (6) Where, in relation to a marriage solemnised in accordance with the Registration of Customary Marriage and Divorce Act, 2007 before the commencement of this Act, the marriage shall be deemed, for the purposes of this section, to be a marriage duly completed in accordance with subsection (1) and that section shall be deemed, for those purposes, to have been complied with. (7) Where, in relation to a marriage to which the Registration of Customary Marriage and Divorce Act, 2009 applies and which was solemnised before the commencement of this Act- (a) the Registration of Customary Marriage and Divorce Act, 2009 was not complied with; and (b) a certificate referred to in the Registration of Customary Marriage and Divorce Act, 2009 is given to a Registration Officer by one of the parties to the marriage after such commencement, Place of death. of marriages. 44 45 the Registration of Customary Marriage and Divorce Act, 2007 shall be deemed to have been complied with in relation to the marriage and the Registration Officer may register the marriage in the Register of Marriages in such manner as the Authority may direct. PART XIII – REGISTRATION OF DIVORCES AND NULLITIES