Marriage registration mandatory for all from next year
March 20th, 2007
As per Supreme court directives, Kerala Government has decided to make marriage certificates mandatory for all. It will be applicable for all religions. So the so called “uniform civil code” is coming through the backdoor slowly and steadily. Bihar is the only other state where marriage registration is mandatory.
I wonder why the law was not made in parliament!
I just hope it doesn’t end up as another opportunity for government employees to extract bribe…
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March 28th, 2007 at 5:57 pm
any idea when this is going to be made effective? could any one help?
i went through the draft rules and found some odd things about it.
all marriages are to be registered. even my marriage which took place 25 years back and my parents marriage which took place 55 years back and their parents marriage, god knows when. ad infinitum. fine. no issues regarding that as far as i am concerned. at least my ancestors and i can get our marriage certificate and our descendants can proudly say that they are all born to married parents.
it is the form no.i for registering the marriage that i am not able to comprehend. the signatures of the parents of the bride and the bridegroom are needed for registering the marriage and the reason mentioned for this is to know whether the marriage had their consent. it is well known to everyone that only an adult male and female can marry at present. then where does the question of the parental concern arise?
coming to my situation, as all marriages are to be registered, i have to register my marriage which took place 25 years back. i have to fill in form no.i and submit it within one year of the rules coming into force to the officer concerned. mine was an arranged marriage and there is no problem regarding my parents signing form no.i. but, there is one big problem. they are not alive now. so i cannot get them to sign my form no.i. does it make my marriage, a marriage without the consent of my parents? or will the officer concerned refuse to register my marriage because it is not signed by my parents or should i get some one to be my guardian now? or should i grease the palms of the officer concerned for registering my marriage?
further, let us assume my parents are alive. they will have to register their marriage within one year of this rule coming into force. who is going to sign their form no.i? if their parents are alive, they would have to get their marriage registered. this goes on ad infinitum.
in my opinion all of this can be solved by removing the signatures of the parents of the bride and the bridegroom.
will the government of kerala listen to this. i have already sent an email to the law department. i do not expect a reply from them.
riyakku
May 15th, 2007 at 10:32 am
What if the bride or bridegroom was trapped into wed the other? Can the signature of the parents from both sides be used to force the bride or groom to submit him/her to statutory rape?
October 11th, 2007 at 12:09 pm
The current registration of marriage act stands to prove the law will always be an ass. It does not allow those abroad who marry during their vacation to get their marriages registered until the next vacation.
The current law requires one to register his marriage 30 days in advance and be present with the spouse 30 days later in front of the registrar to sign the marriage certificate.
At least in my case I went to India for a month’s vacation without knowing who my spouse would be. The marriage got decided and arranged within 2 weeks leaving me with no chance to get my marriage certificate.
On contacting the sub-registrar in person I was told that I need to attempt for the certificate only if I had 30 days’ space. He said such cases of NROs are not evident to the government and we should try to bring such anomaly to its notice.
There should be provisions made to certify marriages that are certified by religous bodies, on the same day.
April 15th, 2008 at 7:11 pm
Any idea if I can register my marriage in any city in kerala, or I need to register it in the same city where the marriage was held.
Actually I will be in kerala for 2 weeks in May, so thought of registering my marriage which happened a year back. From the post it seems its a loooooooooong procedure. Please let me know if any agents are there in kerala
September 25th, 2008 at 7:51 am
I just got my marriage registered recently, ofcourse,well within 30 days. But I did not have to go 30 days prior to the marriage to the sub-registrar.
I went with my spouse to the Panjayat office and filled up the form and signed the registry there.
In the form, at the place of the signature of the parents, a clause has been mentioned as “IF the parent is willing”, meaning that if the parent is willing for the marriage, pls get his/her signature. But still the authorities were insisting on the parents signature which made my registration delayed by 2 days. May be a confusion is still there in this regard, since nobody is clear about the actual necessary particulars in the form.
I expect them to provide me the Marriage Certificate by next week, which can be collected by my brother since I am not in Kerala.
September 25th, 2008 at 7:58 am
Mark, The marriage law says,
4. The marriages shall be registered—
(i) in the office of village Panchayat in the rural areas;
(ii) with the Sub-Registrar or Tehsildar, or such Municipal Authority, who
may be authorized by the State Government in this behalf, in the urban areas:
Provided that where there is no Panchayat, the marriage shall be registered
with the nearest Sub-Registrar or Tehsildar who may be authorized in this behalf.
So I feel it should be in the same city