Sri Lanka Marriage Registration Fee Calculator

The calculator follows the statutory schedule the Registrar General's Department publishes on its "Fees Payable" page and walks the same line-by-line addition a divisional registrar runs when totting your receipt at the counter. Three separate registers exist under Sri Lankan law and each has its own (but largely parallel) schedule:

• General register — the Marriage Registration Ordinance No. 19 of 1907 (as amended) covers most non-Kandyan, non-Muslim marriages. This is the default option in the calculator.
• Kandyan register — the Kandyan Marriage and Divorce Act No. 44 of 1952 applies where both parties belong to the Kandyan community. The structure mirrors the General schedule.
• Muslim register (Quazi)— Muslim marriages are solemnised and recorded by the Quazi / Registrar of Muslim Marriages under the Muslim Marriage and Divorce Act No. 13 of 1951. There is no separate statutory "notice" fee.

Once the register is fixed, the total payable is the sum of up to seven line items, each one switched on or off by the inputs:

1. Notice of intended marriage. Filed at least 14 clear days before the ceremony. Added once per spouse on the General and Kandyan registers at Rs 200 each. If either spouse files notice in a district other than their place of residence, the per-spouse notice fee doubles because two registrars (receiving and forwarding) each collect.
2. Special licence (notice waiver). If you cannot wait 14 days, you pay the special licence of Rs 6,000 instead of the notice fees — never on top. The licence is issued by the Registrar General, not the local registrar.
3. Registration fee. Rs 750at the registrar's office; Rs 1,500 when the registrar travels to a private venue (home, hotel, temple).
4. Out-of-office travel surcharge. Rs 1,500 added on top of the outside-office registration fee — never charged when you register at the office itself.
5. Weekend / public-holiday surcharge. Rs 1,500 added when the ceremony falls on a Saturday, Sunday, or a gazetted public holiday. Most hotel weddings fall in this band.
6. Certified copies. Rs 100 per copy of the marriage certificate. Most couples take 2–3 on the day.
7. Translation copies. Rs 200 per official translation (Sinhala ↔ Tamil ↔ English). Useful for visa and overseas filings.

A second, closed-form formula recomputes the grand total directly from the inputs without iterating the line list. If the two recomputations ever disagree by a rupee, the "Cross-checked" badge on the tool card flips to a warning — a deliberate guard against silent breakage when a future gazette moves a figure and only half the code is updated.

The Kandyan schedule mirrors the General schedule on every line that appears today; where a Kandyan-specific figure differs in a future gazette, only the override constant in the data module needs changing. The Muslim schedule omits the notice and special-licence rows entirely and charges Rs 1,000 for an in-office registration with the Quazi.

• Registrar General's Department — Marriage Registration
• Registrar General's Department — Fees Payable schedule
• Department of Government Printing — Gazette Extraordinary archive
• Registrar General's Department — official site

These figures were last reconciled against the Registrar General's published "Fees Payable" schedule on 2026-05-16. The Department revises the schedule by Gazette Extraordinary; if a figure has moved since, please email me with the gazette number and I'll update within 24 hours. This calculator covers statutory fees only — it does not compute dowry stamp duty, hotel coordination markups, or foreign embassy Letter-of-Non-Impediment costs.