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APPENDIX IV
INFANT MARRIAGE LAWS, MYSORE AND BARODA

REGULATION No. X OF 1894.

(Passed on the $th day or October, 1894.)
A Regulation to prevent Infant Marriages in the Territories of Mysore.
Whereas it is expedient to prevent Infant Marriages in the Territories of Mysore :
H's Highness the Maharajah is pleased to enact as Preamble,
follows :—

' • This Regulation may be called " The Mysore Infant short title

arriages Prevention Regulation." .
(2) It shall extend to The whole of the territories of Mysore, but ,t shall apply
°nly to marriages among the Hindus. It shall come into

operation at the expiration of six months from the date ^Extent and^
°f Us publication in the official Gazette.

2. For the purposes of this Regulation, an " Infant Girl Definition,
means a girl who has not completed eight years of age. t,nnwinCrlv

3- Any person who causes the marriage of an infant girl, or who knowingly
aids and abets within the meaning of the Indian Penal puniahment for
Code such a marriage, and any man who having completed cau£jing or abetting
eighteen years of age marries an infant girl, shall be infant marriages.
Punished with simple imprisonment for a term which may

extend to six months, or with fine, or with both.

4- Any man who having completed fifty years of Punishment for a
age marries a girl who has not completed fourteen years man more than fifty
J age, shall be punished with imprisonment of either ^g^™**.
description for a term which may extend to two years, |earB of age.

"T&ZZtS?'causes the marriage of a girl who has not completed

fourteen years of age, with a man who has completed fifty Punishment for

years of age, and any person who knowingly aids and abetment of offence

abets, within the meaning of the Indian Penal Code, such P™™JJ agamBt m

a marriage, shall be punished with simple imprisonment

f°r a term which may extend to six months, or with fine, or with botn.

. 6- No offence punishable under this Regulation shall Offences under the

^ tried by any Court inferior to that of a Magistrate of RegulaUonby whom

the District triable.

Validity of mar-

, 7- No marriage which has actually taken place, shall riages "^^th-
£*JWJ to be invalid, on the ground of the penalties Bt-dtng^tbe penaT
' Uded W this Regulation. Regulation.