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| Home > Marriage Acts and rules > Parsi Marriage Act
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Parsi community in India had been atypical and fascinating over the years and hence has attracted attention from all the other cultures. Their temples are a topic of curiosity; their practices have been a distinctive subject over the years. This community always came across as commercially enterprising, highly educated from any other cultures prevailing in India. Over all these curiosities, fascination, parsi culture has been a very simple, very practical culture though it is sure different from all the others around in India.
The Parsi Marriage and Divorce Act, 1936 defines the word `Parsi` as a Parsi Zoroastrian. A Zoroastrian is a person who professes the Zoroastrian religion. Every marriage as well as divorce under this Act is required to be registered according to the procedure in the Act.
Just like Hindu marriage act, In the case of any Parsi (whether such Parsi has changed his or her religion or domicile or not) who, if a male, has not completed 21 years of age, and if a female, has not completed 18 years of age the marriage is not considered solemnized. However, if a party to the marriage is under that age, the consent of the guardian should be obtained.
Every marriage performed under the Parsi Marriage and Divorce Act, 1936 is immediately certified by the officiating priest. The certificate shall be signed by the priest, the married couple and two witnesses present at the marriage. The certificate would be sent to the Registrar of the place where the marriage ceremony is performed.
Contrary to a common belief a Parsi, by law, is allowed to marry outside their community. However, modern and different the Parsi culture is, a Parsi marriage is monogamous. Every Parsi who during the lifetime of his or her wife or husband, whether a Parsi or not, contracts a marriage without having been lawfully divorced from such wife or husband, or without his or her marriage with such wife or husband having legally been declared null and void or dissolved, shall be subject to the penalties provided in sections 494 and 495 of the Indian Penal Code for the offense of marrying again during the lifetime of a husband or wife.
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