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97 results · Marriage Act CAP 150
Marriage Act CAP 150▤

Savings

(1) A subsisting marriage which under any written or customary law hitherto in force constituted a valid marriage immediately befo…

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Marriage Act CAP 150▤

Transitional Provisions

(1) A person who, immediately before the date of commencement of this Act, was a Registrar of Marriages under the Marriage Act (Re…

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Marriage Act CAP 150▤

Rules

The Rules Committee established under the provisions of the Civil Procedure Act (Cap. 21) may make rules regulating court practice…

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Marriage Act CAP 150▤

Provisions on delegated powers

(1) The Cabinet Secretary may make regulations for the better carrying into effect of this Act. (2) Despite subsection (1), regula…

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Marriage Act CAP 150▤

Celebration of other marriages

(1) A marriage recognised under section 6 may be celebrated in accordance to the rules made by the Cabinet Secretary. (2) The Cabi…

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Marriage Act CAP 150▤

Absence of witnesses

A person who celebrates a union purporting to be a marriage at which the required witnesses are not present commits an offence and…

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Marriage Act CAP 150▤

Coercion, fraud, etc.

A party to a ceremony purporting to be a marriage, who at the time, knows or has reason to believe that the consent of the other p…

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Marriage Act CAP 150▤

Marriage to a person under minimum age

Any person who marries a person who is below the minimum age commits an offence and shall on conviction be liable to imprisonment…

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Marriage Act CAP 150▤

Order concerning children

Custody and maintenance of children shall be dealt with in accordance with the Children Act (Cap. 141) and any other written law r…

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Marriage Act CAP 150▤

Other relief

(1) The court may order a party to refrain from molesting a spouse or former spouse. (2) No proceedings may be brought to compel o…

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Marriage Act CAP 150▤

Compounding of maintenance

(1) The court may, if it is satisfied that a disposition of property has been made by the spouse or former spouse of the person by…

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Marriage Act CAP 150▤

Recovery of maintenance arrears

(1) Despite any other period of limitation prescribed by the Limitation of Actions Act (Cap. 22), no instalment of maintenance sha…

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Marriage Act CAP 150▤

Assessment of maintenance

Maintenance payable to a person under an order of the court shall not be assigned or transferred or liable to be attached, sequest…

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Marriage Act CAP 150▤

Lapsing of maintenance

Except where an order for maintenance of a spouse is expressed to be for any shorter period or where any such order has revoked an…

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Marriage Act CAP 150▤

Grounds for order of maintenance

(1) The court may order a person to pay maintenance to a spouse or a former spouse— (a) if the person has refused or neglected to…

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Marriage Act CAP 150▤

Effect of a promise to marry

Except as provided in this section a promise by a person to marry another person is not binding.

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Marriage Act CAP 150▤

Effect of a decree of annulment

The parties to a marriage which has been annulled by decree absolute of the court shall be deemed never to have been married but a…

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