Child Marriage Restraint Act, 1929 [Repealed] Section 2 - Bare Act

Act Info:

In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context.--

¹[(a) "child" means a person who, if a male, has not completed twenty-one years of age, and if a female, has not completed eighteen years of age;)

(b) "child marriage" means a marriage to which either of the contracting parties is a child;

(c) "contracting party" to a marriage means either of the parties whose marriage is²[or is about to be] thereby, solemnised; and

(d) "minor" means a person of either sex who is under eighteen years of age.

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1. Substituted by Act 3 of 1978, Section 2 (w.e.f. 2-10-1978).

2. Substituted by Act 19 of 1938, Section 2.