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Section 2 of Marriage Act CAP 150: Interpretation

    

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires—
"child" means an individual who has not attained the age of eighteen years;
"cohabit" means to live in an arrangement in which an unmarried couple lives together in a long-term relationship that resembles a marriage;
"conciliatory body" means—
(a) a body established under this Act for the purpose of reconciling parties to a marriage;
(b) a mechanism of conciliation recognised under customary or Islamic law;
(c) any other body designated as such by the Cabinet Secretary by notice in the Gazette; or (d) any other body established by any written law;
"court" means a resident magistrate’s court established under section 3 of the Magistrates’ Courts Act
(Cap. 10);
"dowry" means any token of stock, goods, moneys or other property given or promised in consideration of an intended marriage;
"faith" means an association of a religious nature and, in the case of any system of religious beliefs which is divided into denominations, sects or schools, any such denomination, sect or school;
"Hindu" means a person who is—
(a) a Hindu by religion in any form (including a ViraShaiva, a Lingayat and a follower of the Brahmo, Prarthana or Arya Samaj);
(b) a Buddhist of Indian origin; or
(c) a Jain or a Sikh by religion;
"matrimonial proceedings" means proceedings instituted under Part IX and include proceedings for the payment of maintenance or for custody of children instituted independently of a petition for a declaratory decree or for annulment, separation or divorce;
"monogamous marriage" means a marriage whose character has been converted to a monogamous marriage by a declaration made under section 8, including an originally polygamous or potentially polygamous marriage;
"party", in relation to a marriage, an intended marriage or a purported marriage, means a spouse in a marriage, or the intended spouse to a marriage or purported spouse in a marriage; "polygamy" means the state or practice of a man having more than one wife simultaneously;
"prohibited marriage relationship" has the meaning assigned to it in section 10;
"Registrar" means a person appointed under section 50 of this Act;
"spouse" means a husband or a wife; and
"witness" means to be present at, to observe, and to attest to the celebration of a marriage by signing ones name to or putting ones mark on a marriage certificate.

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