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sindh law · 2013

Sindh Child Marriages Restraint Act (Sindh CMRA 2013)

Browse 13 section records currently available for this law in Qanoon. Open a section to read the English text, source citation and record-level verification status.

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: Sindh Provincial Assembly gazette — Act number & exact text PENDING VERIFICATION Official-source ingestion 2026-09-15 (v6): FULL Act ingested — all 13 sections from the Provincial Assembly of Sindh official gazette PDF (Sindh Act No. XV of 2014). The two Phase-1 summary placeholders (ss.2-3) upgraded to verbatim official text with hand-written penalty specs (ss.3/4/5: rigorous imprisonment 2-3 years + fine; s.7(5): up to 1 year or fine); child-marriage crime (id 9) now also links ss.4-5. These were the bundle's…

Section index

  1. § 1 — Short title and commencement
  2. § 2 — Definitions
  3. § 3 — Punishment for male contracting party
  4. § 4 — Punishment for solemnizing a child marriage
  5. § 5 — Punishment for parent or guardian concerned in a child marriage
  6. § 6 — Jurisdiction under this Act
  7. § 7 — Power to issue injunction prohibiting marriage in contravention of this Act
  8. § 8 — Offence to be punishable and triable
  9. § 9 — Cognizance, trial and conclusion of the case
  10. § 10 — Rules
  11. § 11 — Indemnity
  12. § 12 — Removal of difficulty
  13. § 13 — Repeal and saving

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