FOREIGN MARRIAGE ACT, 1969

SOLOMNIZATION OF FOREIGN MARRIAGES

Conditions relating to the solemnization of the foreign marriages, ----

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:

1. neither party has a spouse living,
2. neither party is an idiot or a lunatic,
3. 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
4. the parties are not within the degree of prohibited relationship:
5. 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 withing the degree of prohibited relationship.

Certificate of marriage. ----

1. Whenever a marriage is solemnized under this Act, the Marriage Officer shall enter a certificate thereof in the form specified in the Third Schedule in the book to be kept by him for that purpose and to be called the Marriage Certificate Bok, and such certificate shall be signed by the parties to the marriage and the three witness.
2. On a certificate being entered in the Marriage Certificate Book by the Marriage officer, the certificate shall be deemed to be conclusive evidence of the fact that a marriage under this Act has been solemnized, and that all formalities respecting the residence of the party concerned previous to the marriage and the signatures of witness have been complied with.