Minimum age at which people can get married or enter civil partnership in Northern Ireland could increase under planned reforms
The minimum age at which people can get married or enter a civil partnership in Northern Ireland could increase from 16 to 18 under planned legal reforms.
The plans would also give equal status to religious marriage and non-religious belief marriage, like humanist unions. He also added that a "clear majority supported the proposal to put belief marriage on an equal footing with religious marriage". He also pointed out that both the British and Irish governments have recently raised the minimum age for marriage to 18 in their respective jurisdictions.
"While temporary arrangements are currently in place to give effect to these judgments, full equality signalled by the courts will require amendment to the current Marriage Order 2003, which recognises only civil and religious marriage."
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