Clause 25

The Registrar must maintain a Register of Marriages and Register of Revocation of Divorces containing such records and information as the Registrar may determine on marriages solemnised or registered, or divorces revoked (as the case may be), under this Act.(2) The Register of Marriages and Register of Revocation of Divorces may be kept in such form as the Registrar may determine.(3) The following, if certified by the Registrar to be a true copy or extract, is in any proceedings admissible in evidence as of equal validity with the original document containing the information or the original record:

a copy of or an extract from any information contained in the Register of Marriages or Register of Revocation of Divorces;

a copy of or an extract from any record contained in the Register of Marriages or Register of Revocation of Divorces (including a copy or an extract of any record produced from a microfilm or digital image).Register of Divorces144.—

Any person may, upon payment of the prescribed fee, apply for a copy of an entry in the Register of Divorces and the registrar of the Syariah Court may, if he or she thinks fit, issue the copy certified by him or her to be a true copy.(2) The Register of Divorces, and any copy of an entry in that Register certified under the signature and seal of office of the registrar of the Syariah Court to be a true copy, is prima facie evidence in any court or tribunal in Singapore of the dates and acts contained or set out in that Register or copy.”.