Clause 23

If the parties to any marriage contracted and solemnized under this Ordinance or under any previous written law relating to Christian or Civil Marriages shall desire to add to the marriage so contracted and solemnized the religious ceremony ordained or used by the church or temple of which such parties or one of them are members or a member it shall be competent for them to present themselves for that purpose to a clergyman or minister or priest of such church or temple having given notice to such clergyman or minister or priest of their intention so to do; and such clergyman or minister or priest, upon the production of a certified copy of the certificate of such marriage, may, if he shall see fit, read or celebrate the marriage service of the church or temple to which he belongs:Provided that nothing in the reading or celebration of such service shall be held to supersede or invalidate any marriage so previously contracted and solemnized, nor shall such reading or celebration be entered as a marriage in any register of marriages kept according to the provisions of this Ordinance.

Where a person is under expectation of death and desires to have a religious ceremony of marriage between himself and any person performed it shall be lawful for the clergyman, minister or priest of the church or temple to which he belongs to read or celebrate the marriage service of such church or temple:Provided that such reading or celebration shall not be deemed to be a solemnization of marriage for the purposes of this Ordinance and shall not be entered as a marriage in any register of marriage kept according to the provisions of this Ordinance.