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Bahamas government statement on same sex marriage
By Statement by the Registrar General Department on the Marriage Act
Oct 25, 2016 - 11:47:02 AM
October 24, 2016
– Nassau, The Bahamas –
Statement by the Registrar General Department on the Marriage Act
Statements in relation to the performance in The
Bahamas of a same sex marriage over the weekend have come to the attention of
the Registrar General.
In The Bahamas, the Department of the Registrar General
is the Government agency of record responsible for issuing marriage licenses.
The Registrar General’s Department has never issued a license for a same sex
marriage to be solemnized in The Bahamas.
The Matrimonial Causes Act legislates that a marriage
shall be void if the parties are not respectively male and female. Accordingly,
any ceremony conducted in The Bahamas, purporting to join in marriage two persons
of the same sex would not be recognized as a marriage in accordance with the
laws of The Bahamas.
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