Propais do Fome Fell, the Be and Pan was approved, with votes against PSD, IL and CDS-PP. Currently, young people can legally marry from the age of 16, but in these cases, until 18, parents or tutor is required.
Parliament approved this Thursday, in a global final vote, to increase to 18 years the minimum age to marry and include early or forced marriage in the danger categories of children and youth protection committees.
The final text was approved with vos against PSD, IL and CDS-PP and the favorable votes of the remaining parties and the deputy not registered.
The diploma “prohibits the marriage of minors, with a view to greater protection of the rights of children and young people”, as well as including the “child marriage, early or forced in the whole categories of danger of children’s protection committees and Young people”.
The initiative was agreed in the Commission of Constitutional Affairs, Rights, Freedoms and Guarantees, from the BE and PAN bills approved in general On January 31, the same day the proposal fell to limit marriage to the minimum age of 18 years, with votes against PSD, PS, IL, BE, PCP and Free.
The Assembly of the Republic has decided to increase to 18 years the minimum age for a young man being able to marry and removes from various articles from the legislation the reference to emancipation.
Currently, young people can legally marry from 16 yearsbut in these cases, until 18, a permission of parents or tutor is required.
Deputies want this law to take effect on the day after its publication and provide for a transitional rule, which indicates that “the marriages of over 16 years and under 18 years legally performed until the entry into force of this law, well As the emancipation of minors arising from them, they remain valid and, until the age of both spouses, continue to be governed by the rules amended or revoked by this Law. ”
Regarding the law of protection of children and young people in danger, Parliament decided to add to the list of cases that provide intervention when minors are subjected “child marriage, early or forced, or similar unionas well as the practice of acts that have in view of such a union, even if not realized ”.
The law materializes that it is understood by “childish, early or forced marriage, or similar union any situation in which someone under the age of 18 live with others in conditions analogous to those of the spouses, or has not been constrained to such a union, regardless of its cultural, ethnic or nationality origin ”.
