Section 3: Requisites to validity of Parsi marriages.

The Parsi Marriage and Divorce Act, 1936Central Act · Act 3 of 1936

[(1)] No marriage shall be valid if--

(a) the contracting parties are related to each other in any of the degrees of consanguinity or affinity set forth in Schedule I; or

(b) such marriage is not solemnized according to the Parsi form of ceremony called "Ashirvad" by a priest in the presence of two Parsi witnesses other than such priest; or

[(c) in the case of any Parsi (whether such Parsi has changed his or her religion or domicile or not) who, if a male, has not completed twenty-one years of age, and if a female, has not completed eighteen years of age.]

[(2) Notwithstanding that a marriage is invalid under any of the provisions of sub-section (1), any child of such marriage who would have been legitimate if the marriage had been valid, shall be legitimate.]

Where this provision sits

Act	The Parsi Marriage and Divorce Act, 1936
Section	3
Marginal note	Requisites to validity of Parsi marriages.
Jurisdiction	Central
Status	In force as published by the source

How this provision has been amended

Taken from the footnotes printed with the provision by the source. Where a footnote names the amending instrument, it is quoted as printed.

renumbered, Act 5 of 1988. . Section 3 renumbered as sub-section (1) thereof by Act 5 of 1988, s. 2 (w.e.f. 15-4-1988).
substituted. . Subs. by s. 2, ibid., for clause (c) (w.e.f. 15-4-1988).
inserted. . Ins. by s. 2, ibid. (w.e.f. 15-4-1988).

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