The Rajya Sabha on 13 August 2013 passed Registration of Births and
Deaths (Amendment) Bill, 2012, under which marriages solemnized in India
irrespective of the religion of the persons getting married will have
to be compulsorily registered.
The Registration of Births and Deaths (Amendment) Bill, 2012, was
passed by a voice vote after a brief discussion. Through this bill, the
Union government is providing a platform to the states, which are free
to frame their own rules in accordance with their requirements. The
government does not favour compulsory registration in cases of live-in
relations.
The Bill is set to protect the women from unnecessary harassment in
matrimonial and maintenance cases. It also seeks to provide evidentiary
value in the matters of custody of children, right of children born from
the wedlock of the two persons whose marriage is registered and the age
of the parties to the marriage.
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