The Parsi Marriage and Divorce Act

Requisites to validity of Parsi marriages

Remarriage when unlawful

Punishment of bigamy

Certificate and registry of marriage

Appointment of Registrar

Marriage register to be open for public inspection

Copy of certificate to sent to Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages

Registration of divorces

Penalty for solemnizing marriage contrary to section 4

Penalty for priest’s neglect of requirements of section 6

Penalty for omitting to subscribe and attest certificate

Penalty for making, etc., false certificate

Penalty for failing to register certificate

Penalty for secreting, destroying or altering register

Formal irregularity not to invalidate marriage


II.--MARRIAGES BETWEEN PARSIS


Any person secreting, destroying, or
dishonestly or fraudulently altering the said register in any part thereof, shall be punished with
imprisonment of either description as defined in the Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860) for a term which may
extend to two years or if he be a Register, for a term which may extend to five years and shall also be
liable to fine which may extend to five hundred rupees.


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# 16 Penalty for secreting, destroying or altering register