SOCIETY: KUALA LUMPUR – Government moves to eventually ban child marriages [NSTTV]

KUALA LUMPUR: The government will put in place temporary measures to curb marriages involving minors until such time that it bans child marriages altogether, Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Dr Mujahid Yusof Rawa said today.

He said the standard operation procedure (SOP), which would be finalised this month, was to have short-term measures to tighten the law until the government found a concrete solution to totally ban child marriages.

“We are coming up with the SOP to tighten (the current law) because as long as there is a provision with the permission of the court, you have to respect the law.

“But let me just say here that this is just a temporary measure but the long-term (measure) is very important and we should come to the point where child marriages should be banned,” he said at the Parliament lobby.

Mujahid said the government was now facing some technical problem in banning child marriages because it involved the process of amending the current law.  / By Bernama – July 25, 2018 @ 2:45pm