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Under the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006, the District Magistrate derives the deemed status of…

Section 13(4) makes the District Magistrate the deemed Child Marriage Prohibition Officer "for the purposes of preventing solemnisation of mass child marriages on certain…

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Under the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006, the District Magistrate derives the deemed status of Child Marriage Prohibition Officer specifically to prevent:

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Section 13(4) makes the District Magistrate the deemed Child Marriage Prohibition Officer "for the purposes of preventing solemnisation of mass child marriages on certain days such as Akshaya Trutiya". Child marriages in general remain the work of the officers appointed under s. 16.

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