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Bill Introduced 25 May 2016 ↗ Parliament

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

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.

Legislative progress

Lords 25 May 2016
1st reading
Lords 21 Oct 2016
2nd reading
Lords 13 Dec 2016
Order of Commitment discharged
Lords 20 Dec 2016
3rd reading

Chamber debates