What is the minimum age for the marriage of a male under the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 at the time of…

Section 5(iii) of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 requires that at the time of the marriage "the bridegroom has completed the age of twenty-one years and the bride, the age of eighteen years". The Act lays down only a minimum age and no maximum age for marriage.

Eighteen years is the minimum age for the bride, not the bridegroom, and sixteen years is an old figure for the bride.