GOVT. MP INITIATES LEGISLATIVE WORK

Declaring 18 as age of marriage for all communities

Marriages below 18 to be declared child marriages

MP Pramitha Bandara Tennakoon worked out these 3 pieces of legislation

The government appears to have initiated legislative action to declare 18 as the legal marriage age for all the ethnic groups according to three private member’s bills announced in the gazette notification.

Ruling party MP Pramitha Bandara Tennakoon has worked out these three pieces of legislation as private members’ bills.

The bill titled ‘Marriage Registration (Amendment)’ has sought to amend the Marriage Registration Ordinance declaring 18 as the legal age of marriage for all the ethnic groups including Muslims. It is an amendment to do away with the exception given for Muslims below 18 to marry.

Besides, the ruling party legislator has worked out the bill titled ‘Minimum Age of Marriage’. It says, “No marriage contracted after the coming into force of this Act shall be valid unless both parties to the marriage have completed eighteen years of age.