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Certified copy of entry in marriage-register, etc., to be evidence.—Every certified copy, purporting to be signed by the person entrusted under this Act with the custody of any marriage-register or certificate, or duplicate, required to be kept or delivered under this Act, of any entry of a marriage in such register or of any such certificate or duplicate, shall be received as evidence of the marriage purporting to be so entered, or of the facts purporting to be so certified therein, without further proof of such register or certificate, or duplicate, or of any entry therein, respectively, or of such copy. 2[81. Certificates of certain marriages to be sent to Central Government.—The Registrar General of Births, Deaths and Marriages 3*** shall, at the end of every quarter in each year, select, from the certificates of marriages forwarded to 4[him], during such quarter, the certificates of the marriages of which 5[the Government by whom he was appointed] may desire that evidence shall be transmitted to England, and shall send the same certificates, signed by 4[him] to the 6[Central Government].]