Singapore legislation

Section 4

of Women’s Charter 1961

Section 4

Disability to contract marriages

(1)

Every person who on 15 September 1961 is lawfully married under any law, religion, custom or usage to one or more spouses shall be incapable during the continuance of that marriage or marriages of contracting a valid marriage under any law, religion, custom or usage with any person other than such spouse or spouses.

(2)

Every person who on 15 September 1961 is lawfully married under any law, religion, custom or usage to one or more spouses and who subsequently ceases to be married to that spouse or all the spouses shall, if he or she thereafter marries again, be incapable during the continuance of that marriage of contracting a valid marriage with any other person under any law, religion, custom or usage.

(3)

Every person who on 15 September 1961 is unmarried and who after that date marries under any law, religion, custom or usage shall be incapable during the continuance of that marriage of contracting a valid marriage with any other person under any law, religion, custom or usage.

(4)

Nothing in this section affects the operation of Part 3 in relation to marriages solemnised in Singapore after 15 September 1961.

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