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Article: Some marriages easier to track and deal with
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- The Hindustan Times
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- August 29, 2006
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NEW DELHI, India, Aug 29 -- IN WHAT could revive the debate on a common civil code, the government is considering inserting a clause in the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 to make registration of marriages mandatory. But the provision does not find a place where it was actually needed - a proposed law to prevent child marriage that will apply to all communities.
In November last year, the Parliamentary Standing Committee of the Law Ministry had recommended that marriage registration be made mandatory under the Prevention of Child Marriage (PCM) Bill to address the scourge of child marriage that cannot be tackled effectively under the existing Child Marriage Restraint Act of 1929. Registered ...