Fact Check: Whose marriage certificate needs a cross-reference? - ZimFact
Ngoni Mhuruyengwe
March 24, 2024
Claim: Zimbabwe social media platforms have been awash with claims that marriage certificates issued after September 2022 wrongly cited the Marriage Act as Chapter 5:11 and need to be amended to read Chapter 5:17 to be legally valid.
Is this true or false?
Verdict: True
The Law Society of Zimbabwe confirmed this development, citing a clerical error in the official forms for the registration of civil marriages where changes had not been made following amendments to the national Marriages Act. The Law Society said pending an overall rectifying instrument, lawyers or individuals can take the affected marriage certificates to the Registrar’s Office for official correction of the mistake.
The Law Society of Zimbabwe
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