Just a reminder | Prison for the marriage registrar: a penalty in a new draft law if he registers a marriage contract for anyone under 18

MP Abdel Moneim El-Elaimy, a member of the Legislative Committee of the House of Representatives, said he would resubmit new amendments to the draft law regulating the work of marriage registrars, so as to add penalties for the crime of early marriage and to end the phenomenon of child marriage, especially after the case of a father who forced his daughter, aged eleven, into marriage for the second time.

In exclusive statements to «Al-Dostour», El-Elaimy explained that he had toughened the penalties for offending registrars who accept bribes to ignore the age of the wife or husband, agree to draw up a contract in secret, or act in the absence of the official state papers and documents that record the marriage. He revealed that the new law he has submitted stipulates that the age of marriage must be no less than 18 years, that first-degree relatives, or whoever represents them if they have died, must be present when the marriage contract is concluded, that the national ID card must be checked, and that agreement must be reached on delegating to the wife the right to divorce her husband.