{"id":89806,"date":"2019-08-11T12:35:19","date_gmt":"2019-08-11T07:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=9088"},"modified":"2019-08-11T12:35:19","modified_gmt":"2019-08-11T07:05:19","slug":"goa-to-amend-portuguese-era-law-to-allow-marriage-registration-of-outsiders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/goa-to-amend-portuguese-era-law-to-allow-marriage-registration-of-outsiders\/","title":{"rendered":"Goa to amend Portuguese-era law to allow marriage registration of outsiders"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Goa government has decided to amend the Portuguese-era Uniform Civil Code(UCC).<\/li><li>The amendment would allow overseas citizens of India(OCIs) card holders and people outside Goa to their register their marriage under the uniform civil code.<\/li><li>Goa was a former Portuguese colony.It was annexed into the Union of India in 1961.In 1987,Goa was made a separate state.<\/li><li>The UCC was introduced by the erstwhile Portuguese rulers.It was retained even after the territory was merged with India in the year 1961.&nbsp;<\/li><li>It is the only state in the country which has a uniform civil code.Currently, the registration of marriage of non-Goans is banned in Goa.<\/li><li>Uniform civil code is also an ongoing debate in the country.It seeks to replace personal laws based on the scriptures and customs of each major religious community in India with a common set of rules governing every citizen.<\/li><li>Article 44 of the Constitution says that there should be a Uniform Civil Code.According to this article,the State shall endeavour to secure for the citizens a uniform civil code throughout the territory of India.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Goa government has decided to amend the Portuguese-era Uniform Civil Code(UCC). The amendment would allow overseas citizens of India(OCIs) card holders and people outside Goa to their register their marriage under the uniform civil code. Goa was a former Portuguese colony.It was annexed into the Union of India in 1961.In 1987,Goa was made a separate&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/goa-to-amend-portuguese-era-law-to-allow-marriage-registration-of-outsiders\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Goa to amend Portuguese-era law to allow marriage registration of outsiders<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1234],"tags":[4532,7192],"class_list":["post-89806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-polity-current-affairs","tag-goa","tag-uniform-civil-code","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89806","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}