Registration of Hindu Marriages
Registration of Hindu marriages, section 8 of the Act provides as follows :-
1. For the purposes of facilitating the proof of Hindu marriages the State Government may make rules providing that the parties to any such marriage may have the particulars relating to their marriage entered in such manner and subject to such conditions as may be prescribed in a Hindu Marriage Register kept for the purpose.
2. Notwithstanding any thing contained in sub-section (1) the State Government may, if it is of opinion that it is necessary or expedient so to do, provide that the entering of the particulars referred to in sub-section (1) shall be compulsory in the State or in any part thereof, whether in all cases or in such cases as may be specified, and where such direction has been issued, any person contravening any rule made in this behalf shall be punishable with fine which may extend to twenty five rupees.
3. All rules made under this section shall be laid before the State Legislature as soon as may be, after they are made.
4. The Hindu Marriage Register shall at all reasonable times be open for inspection, and shall be admissible as evidence of the statements therein contained and certified extracts therefrom.
Thus the omission to get the marriages registered, even when the registration is made compulsory, does not affect in any manner the validity of the marriage but will invite the penalty of a fine which may extend to twenty five rupees.
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