regarded by the official without further examination of the matter.
Note. The local courts shall try the suits brought to restrain the contracting of marriages as preferred causes and not later than within three days after the commencement of such suits. No appeal shall lie from the decision of the local court in such a case.
64. Persons making deliberately false statements with a view to preventing the contracting of a marriage shall be liable to prosecution for perjury and to an action for damages caused by their interference.
65. Appeals against a refusal to register a marriage may be brought at any time before the local court within whose jurisdiction the respective Bureau of Vital Statistics is located.
Chapter II
Prerequisites Necessary for Contracting Marriage
66. Persons intending to marry must have attained the matrimonial age. The matrimonial age ahall be sixteen years for females and eighteen years for males.
67. Persons intending to marry must be of sound mind.
68. No person shall be capable of contracting a new marriage who is already living in a state of registered marriage or of unregistered marriage having the same validity as registered marriage.
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