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CUSTOMARY MARRIAGES: EXTENDED REGISTRATION PERIOD GAZETTED
- 29 October 2024
- Home Affairs
- SA Legal Academy
The Department of Home Affairs has gazetted a notice declaring a two-year period for the registration of customary marriages under the Recognition of Customary Marriages Act, 1998. Determined to have begun retrospectively on 1 September 2024, the new registration period is presumably intended to accommodate people whose customary marriages:
either took place before the Act came into force in November 2000 but have not yet been registered, or
took place after the Act’s commencement but were not registered within three months of the ceremony concerned, as required.
This is noting that the Act’s sub-sections 4(3)(b) and (c) empower the Minister to prescribe a ‘longer period’ from time to time.
Signed on 23 September 2024 by Home Affairs Minister Leon Schreiber, the notice appears to have been gathering dust ever since – probably somewhere between his department and an entity also falling under it: the Government Printing Works.
Published by SA Legal Academy Policy Watch
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