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federal law · 1929

Child Marriage Restraint Act, 1929 (CMRA 1929)

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Qanoon publishes entries from its local law bundle and does not assume a code is complete simply because it appears in this catalogue. The ingestion and verification status for this code is pending_verification. Source note: Act No. XIX of 1929; Pakistan Code portal consolidated official PDF 'THE CHILD MARRIAGE RESTRAINT ACT, 1929' (4 pp., RGN Date 06-05-2024), ingested 2026-09-15. All 10 operative sections transcribed (ss.1, 2, 4-10, 12); ss.3 and 11 stand omitted in the official consolidated text and are excluded. Penalties are the pre-2017 federal baseline exactly as printed in the portal text (simple imprisonment up to one month and/or fine up to one thousand rupees; s.12(5): up to three months); third-party claims of a 2017…

Section index

  1. § 1 — Short title, extent and commencement
  2. § 2 — Definitions
  3. § 4 — Punishment for male adult above twenty-one years of age marrying a child
  4. § 5 — Punishment for solemnising a child marriage
  5. § 6 — Punishment for parent or guardian concerned in a child marriage
  6. § 7 — Imprisonment not to be awarded for offences under section 3
  7. § 8 — Jurisdiction under this Act
  8. § 9 — No Court shall take cognizance of any offence under this Act
  9. § 10 — Preliminary inquiries into offences under this Act
  10. § 12 — Power to issue injunction prohibiting marriage in contravention of this Act

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