A Rwandan who attains the age of 18 years might be allowed to marry legally, in case they apply for it from a competent authority and provide valid reasons, according to a draft law being debated in parliament this afternoon (March 18).
A Rwandan who attains the age of 18 years might be allowed to marry legally, in case they apply for it from a competent authority and provide valid reasons, according to a draft law being debated in parliament this afternoon .Why law governing family, persons was amended
"This draft law proposes that a person with age of majority but who has not yet attained marriageable age, may apply, for reasonable grounds, to the civil registrar at district level the authorisation to get married," the explanatory note of the bill reads in part. The relationships are direct lineal kinship, collateral kinship up to the seventh degree, a person and his or her parents-in- law, an adoptive parent and the adoptee, an adoptive parent and the descendants of the adoptee.
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