E-2 - Act respecting Protestant churches entitled to keep civil status registers

Section 3 Disposition versions

1977-12-31

3. Notwithstanding any law to the contrary or the provisions of any special act, every register of civil status shall be deemed to have been kept by one entitled by law so to do, and to have been a register conforming, as such, to all legal requirements, when it has been kept by a priest, missionary or minister of any religious denomination, within the purview of sections 1 and 2 of this act, who, duly authorized by the competent ecclesiastical authority thereof to celebrate marriages, administer baptism or perform the rites of burial, was doing duty as such priest, missionary or minister in any church, congregation or religious community of such denomination in Québec; and all marriages, baptisms and acts of burial so performed by him up to the 22nd day of December, 1931, the date of the coming into force of chapter 73 of the statutes of 1931-1932, shall be deemed as valid and legal as if they had been performed by one legally competent to perform the same and as if the said register had been one conforming, as such, to all legal requirements.

R. S. 1964, c. 311, s. 3.