# marriage bill

- Link: https://dearsouthafrica.co.za/marriage-bill/
- Published: 2023-08-07T14:44:43+02:00
- Author: dearSA

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### The Department of Home Affairs invited public comment on the Draft Marriage Bill, 2022.

    - 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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Chapters of the Bill 

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Preamble to the Bill

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