Section-3 Requisites to validity of Parsi marriages

Section-3 Requisites to validity of Parsi marriages

⁶[(1)] No marriage shall be valid if-

 

(a) the contracting parties are related to each other in any of the degrees of consanguinity or affinity set forth in Schedule I; or

 

(b) such marriage is not solemnized according to the Parsi form of ceremony called "Ashirvad" by a priest in the presence of two Parsi witnesses other than such priest; or

 

⁷[(c) in the case of any Parsi (whether such Parsi has changed his or her religion or domicile or not) who, if a male, has not completed twenty-one years of age, and if a female, has not completed eighteen years of age.]

 

⁸[(2) Notwithstanding that a marriage is invalid under any of the provisions of sub-section (1), any child of such marriage who would have been legitimate if the marriage had been valid, shall be legitimate.]