Volume 141, Number 58A
Royal Gazette
24 September 2567
Section15.The text of section 1458 of the Civil and Commercial Code shall be repealed and replaced by the following text:
“Section1458.A marriage may only be entered into by two persons who consent to being each other’s spouse and openly express such consent before a registrar, and the registrar shall also record such consent.”
Section16.The text of paragraph 1 of section 1460 of the Civil and Commercial Code shall be repealed and replaced by the following text:
“Section1460.When there is a special circumstance in which a marriage cannot be registered before a registrar because either or both of the relevant persons are under imminent danger of death or are in a state of armed conflict or war, if the two express their intention to marry each other before a person of majority present there and require that person to record as evidence their intention to apply for marriage, and their marriage is later registered within ninety days from the day the registration may be conducted before a registrar, in respect of which the evidence is produced to the registrar and the registrar then records in the marriage register the day, month, year, and place of the expression of the intention to apply for marriage, as well as the special circumstance, it shall be deemed that the day of their expression of the intention to apply for marriage before the said person is the day of registration of their marriage before the registrar.”
Section17.The name of Chapter 3 of the Civil and Commercial Code, relationship between husbands and wives, shall be repealed and replaced by the following text:
“Chapter 3
Spousal relationship”.
Section18.The text of section 1461 of the Civil and Commercial Code shall be repealed and replaced by the following text:
“Section1461.A married couple must live and cohabit together as a married couple.
Spouses must support and maintain each other according to each own ability and conditions.”
Section19.The text of section 1462 of the Civil and Commercial Code, which has been amended by the Civil and Commercial Code Amendment Act (No 19), 2551 BE, shall be repealed and replaced by the following text:
