Have Your Say: Marriage Bill [B43 – 2023]

The Portfolio Committee on Home Affairs invites stakeholders, interested persons and parties to make written submissions on the Marriage Bill [B43– 2023] that was tabled before Parliament on 13 December 2023.

The purpose of the Bills is:
To provide for the recognition of marriages; to provide for the requirements for monogamous and polygamous marriages; to provide for designation of marriage officers; to provide for solemnisation and registration of marriages; to provide for proprietary consequences and the dissolution of marriages; to provide for offences and penalties and to provide for matters incidental thereto.

Deadline for submissions is 17 May 2024 at 16:00. 

A copy of the bill can be found at the following link:

https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Bills/2023/B43_2023_Marriage_Bill/b43-2023-marriage-bill.pdf

Submissions must be directed to the Committee Secretary, Mr Eddy Mathonsi at the email address: MarriageBill@parliament.gov.za For clarification contact Mr. Mathonsi at 083 709 8523

Issued by Hon. MS Chabane, MP, Chairperson: Portfolio Committee on Home Affairs