Section 3
of Marriage Act
Section 3
(1)
No two persons shall be capable of contracting a valid marriage unless the following conditions are fulfilled —
(a)
both parties to the intended marriage have reached the age of 14 years;
(b)
both parties to the intended marriage are not related to each other within the degrees of kindred set out in the First Schedule;
(c)
if domiciled elsewhere than in the State, the parties to the intended marriage are not related to each other within a degree of kindred prohibited by the law of the country of their domicile;
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(d)
neither party to the intended marriage is bound by a valid subsisting marriage to a third person;
(e)
at the time of the marriage, neither party is a lunatic, an idiot or a person whose mental condition makes him or her incapable of understanding the nature of the marriage contract;
(f)
the parties to the intended marriage freely consent to marry each other:
Provided that absence of consent shall not be inferred merely from the fact that one party was induced by fraud to marry the other.
(2)
A marriage shall be void unless all the conditions set out in subsection (1) are fulfilled.
Modes of solemnising marriages.