Section 48:
Petition when Registrar doubts authority of person forbidding.
Whenever a Marriage
Registrar, acting under the provisions of section 44, is not satisfied that the person forbidding the issue of
the certificate is authorized by law so to do, the said Marriage Registrar shall apply by petition, where his
district is within any of the towns of Calcutta, Madras and Bombay, to a Judge of the High Court, or if
such district be not within any of the said towns, then to the District Judge.
Procedure on petition.-- The said petition shall state all the circumstances of the case, and pray for
the order and direction of the Court concerning the same,
and the said Judge of the High Court or District Judge, as the case may be, shall examine into the
allegations of the petition and the circumstances of the case,
and if, upon such examination, it appears, that the person forbidding the issue of such certificate is not
authorized by law so to do, such Judge of the High Court or District Judge, as the case may be, shall
declare that the person forbidding the issue of such certificate is not authorized as aforesaid,
and thereupon such certificate shall be issued, and the like proceedings may be had in relation to such
marriage as if the issue had not been forbidden.
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Notes:
1. Omitted by the A. O. 1950.