Parliamentary Bills

Marriage and Civil Partnership (Minimum Age) Bill [HL]

Private Members' Bill (Starting in the House of Lords)

Originated in the House of Lords, Session 2016-17

Last updated: 17 March 2017 at 13:05

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Long title

A Bill to raise the minimum age of consent to marriage or civil partnership to eighteen; create an offence of causing a person under the age of eighteen to enter into a marriage or civil partnership; and for connected purposes.

Sponsor

Baroness Tonge
Independent Liberal Democrat
Life peer

Current version of the Bill

HL Bill 17 (as introduced)
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25 May 2016
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