Section 4: Conditions relating to solemnization of foreign marriages.

The Foreign Marriage Act, 1969Central Act · Act 33 of 1969

A marriage between parties one of whom at least is a citizen of India may be solemnized under this Act by or before a Marriage Officer in a foreign country, if, at the time of the marriage, the following conditions are fulfilled, namely:--

(a) neither party has a spouse living,

(b) neither party is an idiot or a lunatic,

(c) the bridegroom has completed the age of twenty-one years and the bride the age of eighteen years at the time of the marriage, and

(d) the parties are not within the degrees of prohibited relationship:

Provided that where the personal law or a custom governing at least one of the parties permits of a marriage between them, such marriage may be solemnized, notwithstanding that they are within the degrees of prohibited relationship.

Where this provision sits

Act	The Foreign Marriage Act, 1969
Section	4
Marginal note	Conditions relating to solemnization of foreign marriages.
Jurisdiction	Central
Status	In force as published by the source

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