Child Marriages in IndiaBiblio.com
Women's and Children's Rights India's Child Marriage Restraint Act and Legal Protection of Girls 1929
1929réf. 151011929. Act No. XIX of 1929 Passed by the Indian Legislature.An Act to Restrain the Solemnisation of Child Marriages 1929 records the enactment of the Child Marriage Restraint Act an early statutory attempt in British India to restrict marriages involving children. Receiving the Governor-General's assent on October 1 1929 and taking effect April 1 1930 the Act defined a "child" as a male under eighteen or a female under fourteen and imposed criminal penalties on adult men contracting child marriages and on persons performing conducting or directing such marriages. The legislation is commonly associated with reformer Harbilas Sarda and became known as the Sarda Act. Act No. XIX of 1929 Passed by the Indian Legislature.An Act to Restrain the Solemnisation of Child Marriages. 1929. Pamphlet. The text specifies the "punishment for male adult below twenty one years of age marrying a child" the "punishment for male adult above twenty one years of age marrying a child" and the punishment for "solemnising a child marriage." Under the original Act a male between eighteen and twenty-one who contracted a child marriage could be fined up to one thousand rupees; a male over twenty-one could receive up to one month of simple imprisonment a fine of up to one thousand rupees or both. Comparable penalties applied to a person who performed conducted or directed a child marriage. The pamphlet preserves the statutory language by which the colonial legislature sought to regulate marriage age through penalties imposed upon adult participants and officiants. The Act preceded later Indian legislation that progressively raised legal marriage ages and strengthened protections against child marriage. Its provisions document an early legislative attempt to intervene directly in the solemnization of marriages involving children and to assign legal responsibility to adult husbands and those conducting such marriages. unknown
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