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TN bill to make wedding registration
compulsory
CHENNAI: If you are planning to get married
anytime soon, don’t forget to include a visit to
the registrar of marriages soon after you tie
the knot,
or exchange rings, as the case may be in your
schedule. On Tuesday, Tamil Nadu minister for
public works Durai Murugan introduced a Bill in
the Assembly to provide for compulsory
registration of all marriages in Tamil Nadu.
The bill seeks to give effect to a supreme court
ruling in 2006, where it held that the
presumption which is available from registration
of marriage would be denied to a person whose
marriage is not registered. It went on to add
that every Indian citizen must register his/her
wedding in the state in which it has been
solemnized.
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Once the bill comes into effect, every marriage
performed in the state would need to be registered
within 90 days under the proposed Tamil Nadu
Registration of Marriages Act, 2009. It includes all
marriages (including remarriages) performed by persons
belonging to any caste or religion. Currently, all
wedding registrations are done by the Registration
Department of the state, which also undertakes
registration of a whole lot of other things, including
property, birth and death, societies and firms. Under
the new Bill, TN proposes to appoint a Registrar General
of Marriages for the State of Tamil Nadu, apart from a
registrar for each district.
