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Marriage Registration (Amendment) |
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| AN ACT TO AMEND THE MARRIAGE REGISTRATION ORDINANCE | | |
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| BE it enacted by the Parliament of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka as follows: - | |
[18th October , 1995 ] |
Short title | 1. This Act may be cited as the Marriage Registration (Amendment) Act, No. 18 of 1995. | Replacement of section 15 of Chapter 112 | 2. Section 15 of the Marriage Registration Ordinance is hereby repealed, and the following section substituted therefor:- "Prohibited age of marriage. | 15. No marriage contracted after the coming into force of this section shall be valid unless both parties to the marriage have completed eighteen years of age.". | | Sinhala text to prevail in case of Inconsistency. | 3. In the event of any inconsistency between the Sinhala and "Tamil texts of this Act, the Sinhala text shall | |
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