{"id":239052,"date":"2023-04-21T20:00:56","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T14:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=239052"},"modified":"2023-04-24T17:36:18","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T12:06:18","slug":"sc-slams-sections-of-special-marriage-act-requiring-prior-notice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/sc-slams-sections-of-special-marriage-act-requiring-prior-notice\/","title":{"rendered":"SC slams sections of Special Marriage Act requiring prior notice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201cSC slams sections of Special Marriage Act requiring prior notice\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in <strong>T<\/strong><\/span><b>he Hindu <\/b>on <b>21st April 2023<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Supreme Court has said that the provisions of the Special Marriage Act which mandate a 30-day notice of intent to marry is steeped in patriarchy and expose vulnerable couples to an \u201cinvasion\u201d by society.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the Special Marriage act?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/special-marriage-act-what-is-the-act-how-does-it-work-what-is-the-notice-period\/\"><b>Click Here to read<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><b>Why has the Supreme Court criticized several provisions of the Special Marriage Act?\u00a0<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Special Marriage Act requires marriage officers to display a public notice inviting objections to an intended marriage 30 days prior to the ceremony.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Supreme Court has argued that such a notice is patriarchal and enables an invasion of privacy, particularly as it includes detailed personal information about the couple such as their names, phone numbers, date of birth, occupation and addresses.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The court said that such provisions are only based on patriarchy and were made when women did not have agency.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It voiced concern about the impact of such requirements on marginalized or minority communities and emphasized the need to protect vulnerable sections of society.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cSC slams sections of Special Marriage Act requiring prior notice\u201d published in The Hindu on 21st April 2023 What is the News? The Supreme Court has said that the provisions of the Special Marriage Act which mandate a 30-day notice of intent to marry is steeped in&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/sc-slams-sections-of-special-marriage-act-requiring-prior-notice\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SC slams sections of Special Marriage Act requiring prior notice<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,7965,9],"tags":[1343,10498],"class_list":["post-239052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-special-marriage-act","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1699896188},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}