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Part II (s.10-21) deals with the marriageable age and the marriage of minors. In the original 1961 Act, marriageable age was set at 16 for females and 18 for males. However, under section 12 of the original 1961 Act a female 14 or 15 years or a male 16 or 17 years could apply to the court for permission to marry.
[7] [8] [9] The original 1961 Marriage Act did not include a definition of marriage, leaving it to the courts to apply the common law definition. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] The Marriage Amendment Act 2004 defined, for the first time by statute, marriage as "the union of a man and a woman to the exclusion of all others, voluntarily entered into for life."
What constitutes a void marriage is determined by section 23 of the Marriage Act 1961 [6] The distinction that existed before 1975 between void and voidable marriages no longer exists. In addition, the 1975 Act also abolished the legal concept of non- consummation of marriage as a ground for annulment, [ 7 ] [ 8 ] so that a divorce application ...
While marriage rates have declined, the recently introduced relationship registers have grown in use. [1] Although some couples have registered relationships because they are prohibited from marrying under the federal Marriage Act 1961 as amended by the Marriage Amendment Act 2004, [ 3 ] other couples have registered as an alternative to ...
The list was enacted by the Marriage Act 1949 which with significant changes continues to apply in England and Wales. [10] The list was cut back by the Marriage (Prohibited Degrees of Relationship) Act 1986, by deleting from the list prohibitions based on affinity relationships, and added to in other respects. Marriages that continue to be ...
Marriage Act 1949 (Amendment) Act 1954; Marriage Acts Amendment Act 1958; Marriage (Secretaries of Synagogues) Act 1959; Marriage (Enabling) Act 1960 (8 & 9 Eliz. 2. c. 29) Marriage (Wales and Monmouthshire) Act 1962; Marriage (Registrar General's Licence) Act 1970; Marriage Act 1983; Marriage (Prohibited Degrees of Relationship) Act 1986 ...
Mar. 7—The state Senate will now consider a House bill calling for a constitutional amendment to repeal the Legislature's authority to limit marriage to opposite-sex couples.
Marriage law is the body of legal specifications and requirements and other laws that regulate the initiation, continuation, and validity of marriages, an aspect of family law, that determine the validity of a marriage, and which vary considerably among countries in terms of what can and cannot be legally recognized by the state.