GEIC Marriage Laws Gazetted
p. 123 · Read in the full issue
MARRIAGE laws have been gazetted for the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony.
Minimum age is 18 for males and 16 for females, with consent of guardian required up to the age of Intention to marry must be made not less than one month or more than three months in advance, to the appropriate Government authority, whereon such Intention will be publicly displayed on a notice-board and entered in a register to be available for public inspection.
Such marriage may be halted on
protest by any person, until such time as the protest is investigated and either rejected or sustained.
Only authorised registered persons may perform marriages.
No church marriage shall take place after 6,30 pm or before 6 am.
AN ordinance controlling educa tion in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony was recently gazetted. The main provision appears to be in laws controlling non-government schools, all of which must be registered and their controlling bodies and staffs approved, and the schools subject to Government inspection as to accom modation and curricula.