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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
અંગ્રેજી વર્તમાનપત્રોએ રજૂ કરેલ બાળલગ્ન પ્રતિબંધ કાયદા અંગેનો અભિપ્રાય
The Statesman, 21-5-03 Eearly Marriage in India Propose Reform In Baroda
His highness The Gaekwad of Baroda is to be congratulated on his resolve to discourage. The marriage of boy and girls at an unduly and unnecessarily early age. The law proposed to be enacted in Baroda differs from the Mysore Infant Marriage prevention law in one important respect. The Mysore Act prescribes an age limit below which a marriage shall under no circumstances be prescribed but that limit is very low. The proposed Baroda regulation prescribes a higher limit - 14 years for girls and 18 for boys but it allows marriage at an earlier age provided that they are senctioned by a magisterial license. The Magistrate to whom an application is made for the license shall invite three assessors from the applicant's community and appoint a day for the hearing. They shall consider the reasons given and evidence adduced by the applicant, with the aid of the assessors and shall issue a licence for the marriage provided that at least two of the assessors and himself are convinced - (a) that the postponment of the marriage would involve risk of excommuni
cation, or (b) that the intended bride or bridegroom will have no change of marriage for
another twelve years if the intended alliance is not allowed, or (c) that the parent or guardian cannot expect to live until the boy or girl
reaches the legal age limit, or - (d) that similar other reasons.
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