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Civil Weddings

Author: Mario Scicluna (TheWeddingSite.com)

Documents required

The Marriage Registry provides also services for Civil Marriages. Those couples who opt for a Civil Marriage have to satisfy the same obligations and formalities requested for a religious marriage.

Three months prior to the marriage date, you should make a request for the publication of Marriage Banns at the Public Registry of Malta.

You should provide:

a. Birth certificates of Bride and Groom showing parents' name

b. Identity cards and copies thereof

c. A photocopy of the identity cards of the witnesses

d. RZ1 and RZ2 forms duly signed

(these will be provided by the Public Registry or downloaded from the Public Registry of Malta website - http://www.mjha.gov.mt/services/marriageregistry.html)

The Marriage Registrar should be given the following information:

a. The place where the marriage will be held

b. The date of marriage

c. The surname which the bride will be using after marriage (ie: her maiden surname/her husband's or both)

Please note that children always take the father's surname.

Place of Marriage

Civil Weddings can be celebrated in the Marriage Registry itself, which is situated at 197, Merchants Street, Valletta or at any other place open to the public and which the Registrar accepts as appropriate.

Such venues that have been accepted as appropriate are:

Wedding Halls, Conference Rooms and other public areas within hotel precincts.

It must be pointed out that Civil Marriages are not conducted in the pool side areas or on private and public beaches.

For the actual performance of Civil Marriages, this Registry opens on any day of the week (Monday to Sunday) and after an appointment is made with the couple concerned.

It is also your responsibility to make arrangements for at least two witnesses who must be not less than 18 years old.

Attn Foreigners:

Persons who have never been married must produce a Free Status Certificate from their local Registrar. If the registrar cannot issue such a certificate, a declaration in the same sense by a member of the legal profession would be accepted, provided that the declaration is the legal person’s own, made after due research, and not your own affidavit.

Related Web links

More information about the Marriage Registry

http://www.mjha.gov.mt/services/marriageregistry.html

Application Forms for the required Certificates:

http://certifikati.gov.mt/pages/downloads_en.asp

Online Ordering of Certificates:

http://certifikati.gov.mt/?lng=en

Contacting the Public Registry

Contact the Marriage Registry of Malta for up-to-date requirements,

application forms and other information:

Public Registry of Malta

197,

Merchant Street,

Valletta

The Marriage Registry of Malta

26,

Old Treasury Street

Valletta

CMR 02

Telephone: (+356) 21 221 775

Fax: (+356) 21 249 234

The Public Registry of Gozo

Rabat

Gozo

Telephone: (+356) 21 553 732

Email: pubreg.marriage@gov.mt

The information has been compiled by TheWeddingSite.com with the help of the Marriage Registry of Malta and is correct as at 1st June 2003. TheWeddingSite.com is not responsible for any omissions or incorrectness of the information provided. Contact the Marriage Registry for up-to-date information.

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