Before civil registration of marriages was required beginning on July 1, 1869, most marriage records were held by the County.

It may be noted that there is no Women's Charter providing for registration of marriages.

Although the Anand marriage law was enacted in 1909, there was no provision for registration of marriages.

The biggest impact will be felt at the Home Office, which oversees the registration of marriages, civil partnerships, births and deaths.

It further requires that states set a minimum age of marriage and that they require the official registration of marriages.

The Marriage Act of 1836 introduced the formal registration of marriages from July 1837.

Provision was made for the registration of marriages, but not for the manner in which marriages would be conducted.

The phrase schout en schepenen appears in many legal documents from before the Napoleonic period, including the civil registration of marriages.

The Poruwa ceremony was a valid custom as a registered marriage until the British introduced the registration of marriages by Law in 1870.

The acts of civil status are registered exclusively by the civil authorities at the departments for the registration of marriages and births.

Countries should implement and enforce laws establishing a minimum age for marriage, require the registration of marriages and prosecute the violators.

This Bill, sponsored by Caroline Spelman MP, seeks to make provision about the registration of marriages.

Preparing children and adolescents for family life should focus on strengthening family values, encouraging the registration of marriages with multiple children, and developing family life skills.

Dept of Births, Deaths and Marriages representatives will elaborate on their role and also tackle questions about the on-line registration of marriages.

The Recognition of Customary Marriages Act, 1998, which allows for the registration of marriages under African customary law.

Article 2 - The parties commit to enacting minimum ages of marriage, encouraging registration of marriages, and encouraging the public declaration of consent to marriage.

Capitulation Treaties also permitted the registration of marriages and divorces in the British, German, American and other consulates during the Ottoman period.

The Convention reaffirms the consensual nature of marriages and requires the parties to establish a minimum marriage age by law and to ensure the registration of marriages.

India signed the convention on 30 July 1980 but made the declaration that, because of the nation's size and amount of people, it's impractical to have a registration of marriages.

Current international treaties include the Convention on Consent to Marriage, Minimum Age for Marriage, and Registration of Marriages, entered into force in 1964.

Persons of other faiths frequently experienced official discrimination, often in the context of civil registration of marriages and births, and the issuance of identity cards.

Convention on Consent to Marriage, Minimum Age for Marriage and Registration of Marriages, New York, 10 December 1962.

Besides, it also receives registrations of marriages from British nationals in the Republic of China, although there is no legal requirement for British nationals to do so.

As of April 2012, Pakistan did not provide a legal system for registration of marriages for certain minorities including Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains and Bahá'í.

Removing barriers under national law to the holding of dual and multiple nationalities; g. Facilitating procedures for registration of marriages and births to ensure documentary proof of nationality; and h.