Lawgist3Requisites to validity of Parsi marriages
1[(1)] No marriage shall be valid if--
(a) the contracting parties are related to each other in any of the degrees of consanguinity or affinity set forth in Schedule I; or
(b) such marriage is not solemnized according to the Parsi form of ceremony called "Ashirvad" by a priest in the presence of two Parsi witnesses other than such priest; or
2[(c) in the case of any Parsi (whether such Parsi has changed his or her religion or domicile or not) who, if a male, has not completed twenty-one years of age, and if a female, has not completed eighteen years of age.]
3[(2) Notwithstanding that a marriage is invalid under any of the provisions of sub-section (1), any child of such marriage who would have been legitimate if the marriage had been valid, shall be legitimate.]
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1. Section 3 renumbered as sub-section (1) thereof by Act 5 of 1988, s. 2 (w.e.f. 15-4-1988).
2. Subs. by s. 2, ibid., for clause (c) (w.e.f. 15-4-1988).
3. Ins. by s. 2, ibid. (w.e.f. 15-4-1988).
- 3 Requisites to validity of Parsi marriages
- 4 Remarriage when unlawful
- 5 Punishment of bigamy
- 6 Certificate and registry of marriage
- 7 Appointment of Registrar
- 8 Marriage register to be open for public inspection
- 9 Copy of certificate to sent to Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages
- 10 Registration of divorces
- 11 Penalty for solemnizing marriage contrary to section 4
- 12 Penalty for priest’s neglect of requirements of section 6
- 13 Penalty for omitting to subscribe and attest certificate
- 14 Penalty for making, etc., false certificate
- 15 Penalty for failing to register certificate
- 16 Penalty for secreting, destroying or altering register
- 17 Formal irregularity not to invalidate marriage
