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Marriage Certificate:

19/08/2010

NOTE:

1. Rules have since changed for the last about one year. Haryana Govt. has since passed Compulsory Registration of Marriages ACT. Vide this act all marriages, ceremonised after the date Act came into force, has to be duly registered within a definite period just like birth and death cases, though marriages not registered are not invalid. Different late fees and permissions of competent authorities are required to register the marriage if not registered in due time. The registrar of marriages without sanctions of the higher authority however will register marriages prior to that date.

2. As per the ACT, there is a chief registrar of marriages. There are District registrars of marriages. Also there are registrars of marriages, more than one in Gurgaon. One of them at Gurgaon is Joint Commissioner, Municipal Corporation, Gurgaon, who sits in the town hall, opposite Civil Hospital Gurgaon. Each registrar has his own jurisdiction.

3. Each registrar registers marriages which are either solemnized in his jurisdiction, or if one of the bride or bridegroom lives in his jurisdiction at the time of marriage.

4. I could not find the Date the compulsory registration of marriage Act came into force, nor the names and addresses of Chief Registrar, district registrar and registrar of marriages. Nor the fees and time schedule for registration. Nor the procedure and documents required for registration on any web site of Haryana Gov.

5. One additional document required is however two copies of 3"X2" photo of the couple (not of marriage ceremony). This is now pasted on the marriage registration certificate.

6. One will have to enquire regarding the above details before registration of marriage.

7. Hope Haryana Govt. will do the need full to provide the detailed information on its site soon otherwise it sure is a cause for rampant corruption.

Marriage Certificate for my son and daughter in law was required by the bank for change of name of my daughter in law consequent to her marriage, it was also required by office of my son for inclusion of her name in his dependents and also by the medical insurance company. We reside in Gurgaon. I searched the net but could neither find the procedure for getting the same nor the authority supposed to issue the certificate, finally got hold of an advocate in the district courts to get the certificate who helped with the whole procedure. Although full official requirements for getting the certificate were met genuinely, I had to shed Rs. 2000/- extra in the process.

So here is how you can get it without spending the extra Rs.2000/-.

1. Competent Authority to issue the certificate:

Marriage certificate shall be issued by the competent authority i.e. Registrar of marriages of the district where the bridegroom is resident of, or the bride is resident of or where the marriage has been held. In Gurgaon the competent authority is Tehsildar (Mind it, you may not find any board anywhere in the mini secretariate indicating the office of Registrar of marriages). His office is in the Mini Secretariate near Rajiv Chowk on Sohna- Gurgaon Road, just off the Delhi Jaipur Highway (N.H.8) towards old Gurgaon.

2. Application for issue of certificate:

You may not find anywhere in the office of registrar of marriages the format for the application to be submitted for getting the marriage certificate issued. But you do need to apply in a particular format so that all the required information for registration of marriage and issuing of the certificate is met. You have to submit

1. The application.

 To down load application format click here   

 To download sample filled application click here

2. Four affidavits on stamp paper of Rs. ten each. Affidavits are required from

i)   the bridegroom  Click here to get format

ii) bride      Click here to get format

iii) two from near relatives one from each family (preferably father/ brother/ mother/ sister ). Whosoever signs the affidavits will have to appear before the registrar of marriages.

Click here to get format for relative of groom

Click here to get format for relative bride .

3. Apart from above two copies each of Schedule C and Schedule D are also required to be filled. One copy of each of schedule “C” and Schedule “D” shall be returned duly signed and stamped as a certificate. Preferably you may buy four number of stamp papers of Rs. Ten each in the name of the persons who are to sign the affidavits and visit any of the document writers sitting at Old Panchayat House who will prepare the complete documents for say Rs.130/- only. One such document writer is M/s Prime Concern, Shop No.42, Panchyat Bhawan. It is about 500 meters from mini secretariate towards Gurgaon on Gurgaon- Sohna Road itself.

 Click here for format schedule C

 Click here for format schedule D

 4. You will need two copies of challans also for depositing the fee which presently is Rs. 50/- only. Challan forms are available from his adjacent shop.

3. Documents required:

Following documents shall be required in original to prove the marriage and for its registration. Copies of these duly attested by a notary has to be submitted along with the application.
i) Marriage invitation card.
ii) Marriage photos say jaimala photo, Phere Photo, Photo of bride and groom on stage etc.
iii) Proof of residence.
iv) Proof of age of bride and groom.
v) At Gurgaon, they insist for Ration card of groom's family for issuing marriage certificate although ration card is not necessary for one to get married.

4.Submission of application.

All the above forms and documents shall be submitted in the office of the Registrar of marriages (Room No. 124 in Gurgaon Mini Secteriate) and a fee of Rs.50/- shall be paid after the challans are approved by them. The bride, groom and the witnesses has to appear before the registrar of marriages on the date given before issue of the marriage certificate which is nothing but a certificate certifying that marriage of so and so has been registered at sr. no. so and so of the register of marriages maintained by registrar of marriages. It does not carry even the photographs of the bride and groom and is actually one of the forms you fill up along with the application which is returned duly stamped and signed. You may like to get it laminated to preserve it. In fact there shall be two copies of the certificate say one for the bride and one for the groom i.e. copy of Schedule "C" and Schedule "D".

5. If everything goes fine you may get the certificate even in two days.