Registration (transcription) of Catholic marriage

Registration (transcription) of Catholic marriage Where the marriage was performed before the Parish priest, he shall be transmit ex-offcio within forty eight hours, the record of the contract to the official of the Civil Registration services and the latter shall register it, the original being filed. § Sole paragraph – Where, as per direction of the ecclesiastical authority, the religious marriage was performed by a priest who was not parish priest, the record of the contract shall be drawn and remitted in terms of the article by the parish priest of one of the contracting parties.