Section 6 of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 was omitted by:

Section 6, on guardianship in marriage, was omitted in 1978 by Act 2 of 1978, which amended the Child Marriage Restraint Act, 1929 and also raised the minimum ages of marriage to twenty-one and eighteen. The Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006 came much later, and the 1976 amendments dealt mainly with divorce and nullity.