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Marriage (Appointment of Registrar General) Order

Statutory Instrument 84 of 2024 Current version · as at 8 October 2024
Enacted2024
Commenced—
Last amended—
Point-in-time consolidation · as at 8 October 2024. This page may not reflect amendments made after that date. Confirm the current position against the latest Uganda Gazette before relying on it.

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Jurisdiction
Uganda
Type
Principal Legislation
Status
In force
Language
English

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0 parts · 2 sections

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Uganda

Marriage (Appointment of Registrar General) Order

[This is the version of this document at 8 October 2024.]

1. Title

This Order may be cited as the Marriage (Appointment of Registrar General) Order, 2024.

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What this section does
Statutory power

This section confers or regulates the statutory power described as “Title”.

“This Order may be cited as the Marriage (Appointment of Registrar General) Order, 2024.”
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Practical effect

The power must be exercised by the authorised decision-maker, within the conditions and purpose stated in the section.

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Elements or requirements

Operative requirements extracted from the consolidated text.

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  1. This Order may be cited as the Marriage (Appointment of Registrar General) Order, 2024.
Judicial interpretation

Express propositions in source-matched passages from judgments citing this section.

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No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

Related provisions

No express internal or cross-Act reference appears in this section.

Amendment notes

No section-specific amendment note or instrument-level amendment history appears in this consolidation.

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2. Appointment of Registrar General

(1)

The Executive Director of the National Identification and Registration Authority is appointed to act as Registrar General for the purposes of the Marriage Act.

(2)

For the avoidance doubt, the Registrar General appointed under the Uganda Registration Services Bureau Act and who has been acting as the Registrar General for the purposes of the Marriage Act shall, from the date of commencement of this instrument, cease to act as the Registrar General for purposes of the Marriage Act.

NORBERT MAO, Minister ofJustice and Constitutional Affairs.

Section analysis Source-linked statutory analysis Source linked
Approved statute annotation. Statutory quotations are matched to this consolidation and judicial passages are linked to judgments. Check the primary sources alongside this analysis.
What this section does
Statutory power

This section confers or regulates the statutory power described as “Appointment of Registrar General”.

“(1) The Executive Director of the National Identification and Registration Authority is appointed to act as Registrar General for the purposes of the Marriage Act.”
Primary legislation Source quotation matched
Practical effect

The power must be exercised by the authorised decision-maker, within the conditions and purpose stated in the section.

Deterministic editorial synthesis — not a substitute for the statutory text Editorial synthesis approved
Elements or requirements

Operative requirements extracted from the consolidated text.

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  1. (1) The Executive Director of the National Identification and Registration Authority is appointed to act as Registrar General for the purposes of the Marriage Act.
  2. (2) For the avoidance doubt, the Registrar General appointed under the Uganda Registration Services Bureau Act and who has been acting as the Registrar General for the purposes of the Marriage Act shall, from the date of commencement of this instrument, cease to act as the Registrar General for purposes of the Marriage Act.
Judicial interpretation

Express propositions in source-matched passages from judgments citing this section.

0

No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.

Related provisions
Marriage Act Uganda Registration Services Bureau Act
Amendment notes

No section-specific amendment note or instrument-level amendment history appears in this consolidation.

Authority status: legislation is primary authority; judgment weight follows the displayed court level and the ratio caveat. Check version history

Original Laws of Uganda consolidation (as at 8 October 2024) — public-domain legislation, consolidated by ULII / Laws.Africa (CC BY 4.0). This is a point-in-time text and may not reflect later amendments; confirm against the latest Uganda Gazette before relying on it.