REGISTERATION OF MARRIAGES
There is no general
Central law governing all the communities in respect of compulsory
registration of marriages. Marriage falls under item 5 of List
III – Concurrent List of the Seventh Schedule to the Constitution
of India. Some of the State Governments have, however, made laws
for uniform compulsory registration of marriages. However, the
National Population Policy, 2000 has set the target of compulsory
registration of marriages by 2010.
This was stated
by the Minister of Law & Justice and Commerce & Industry,
Shri Arun Jaitley, in a reply to a question by S/Shri Ganta Sreenivasa
Rao, Gunipati Ramaiah, B.K. Parthasarathi, Adhir Chowdhury, G.
Ganga Reddy and Smt. Shyama Singh in the Lok Sabha today.
