Malaysia legislation
Section 24
Section 24
Solemnization of a marriage through religious ceremony, custom or usage
(2)
Where any person is appointed by the Minister to act as
Assistant Registrar of Marriages for any marriage district such person may after delivery to him a statutory declaration under subsection 22(3) solemnize any marriage in accordance with the custom or usage which the parties to the marriage or either of them practise.
(3)
An Assistant Registrar solemnizing a marriage under this section shall in some part of the ceremony remind the parties that either of them shall be incapable during the continuance of the marriage of contracting a valid marriage with any other person and if either of them shall marry during the continuance of the marriage he or she shall commit an offence.
(4)
In this section—
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“priest of a temple” includes any member of a committee of management or governing body of that temple and any committee member of any religious association;
“priest of a church” includes any officer or elder of the church.
Entry in marriage register