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**The Civil Marriage (Amendment) Act, 2000.** [Margin: Short title.]

Act No. 6 of 2000

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ACTS *Supplement to the Sierra Leone Gazette Vol. CXXXI, No. 28* *dated 8th June, 2000* SIGNED this *4th* day of *April, 2000.* ALHAJI AHMAD TEJAN KABBAH, *President.* (LS) **No. 6** [Coat of arms: UNITY FREEDOM JUSTICE] **2000** **Sierra Leone** **The Civil Marriage (Amendment) Act, 2000.** [Margin: Short title.] **Being an Act to amend the Civil Marriage Act.** *[8th June, 2000]* [Margin: Date of commencement.] ENACTED by the President and Members of Parliament in this present Parliament assembled. 2 **No. 6** *The Civil Marriage (Amendment) Act* **2000** [Margin: Commencement.] **1.** This Act shall be deemed to have come into operation on the 1st day of January, 2000. [Margin: Replacement of Schedule E to Cap 97.] [Margin: Cap 97.] **2.** Schedule E of the Civil Marriage Act is repealed and replaced by the following Schedule:— "SCHEDULE E | | *Leones* | |---|---| | Filling every notice and entering the same ... ... | 10,000.00 | | On issue of each certificate ... ... ... | 20,000.00 | | Licence to marry without notice or certificate ... ... | 150,000.00 | | On every marriage in Registrar's Office ... ... | 30,000.00 | | For searching the Marriage Register books for every half-hour or fraction thereof during which the search shall continue ... ... ... ... | 1,000.00 | | For a certified extract ... ... ... | 10,000.00". | Passed in Parliament this *28th* day of *March*, in the year of our Lord *two thousand.* J. A. CARPENTER, *Clerk of Parliament.* THIS PRINTED IMPRESSION has been carefully compared by me with the Bill which has passed Parliament and found by me to be a true and correctly printed copy of the said Bill. J. A. CARPENTER, *Clerk of Parliament.*

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