This legislation has been repealed.
(a) number in a regular arithmetical series commencing with the number one the official certificates of marriage received, during a year, by him as the appropriate registering authority of the Territory in accordance with paragraph (b) of subsection (4) of section fifty of the Marriage Act 1961 of the Commonwealth;
(b) sign his name on each official certificate so numbered and add the date on which the certificate was so numbered; and
(c) cause those official certificates to be bound in a volume or volumes.
(2) Where the Registrar-General solemnises a marriage in the Territory, he shall, for the purposes of the last preceding subsection, be deemed to have received the official certificate of the marriage immediately that certificate has been signed in accordance with subsection (2) of section fifty of the Marriage Act 1961 of the Commonwealth.