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comments delivered to parliament
The Department of Home Affairs invited public comment on the Draft Marriage Bill, 2022.
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- To rationalise the marriage laws pertaining to various types of marriages;
- to provide for the recognition of marriages entered into by spouses regardless of the religious, cultural, sex, gender, sexual orientation or any other belief of the spouses;
- to provide for the requirements for entering into a marriage;
- to provide for registration of marriages;
- to provide for the legal consequences of a marriage;
- to provide for consent to enter into a marriage;
- to provide for age determination;
- to provide for equal legal status and capacity of spouses to a marriage;
- to provide for the designation of marriage officers;
- to provide for solemnisation of marriages;
- to provide for the dissolution of marriages.
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