{"id":6816,"date":"2019-07-13T04:18:36","date_gmt":"2019-07-13T04:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=6816"},"modified":"2019-07-13T04:18:36","modified_gmt":"2019-07-13T04:18:36","slug":"agreement-reached-on-amendments-to-muslim-marriage-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/agreement-reached-on-amendments-to-muslim-marriage-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Agreement reached on amendments to Muslim Marriage Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">An agreement has been reached on amendments to the Muslim Marriage Act, Parliamentarian Faiszer Musthapha said today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">He said the amendments to the Muslim Marriage Act were unanimously agreed upon after discussions with all the Sri Lankan Muslim Parliamentarians.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">It has been proposed that the age of marriage for both the bride and the groom should be 18 years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The bride should sign the Register of Marriage as a sign of her consent.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">It has also been proposed to upgrade the required qualification of a Kadi to Attorney-at-Law.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">An agreement has also been reached to permit female Kadis (Women who will adjudicate family law of Muslims).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An agreement has been reached on amendments to the Muslim Marriage Act, Parliamentarian Faiszer&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-srilankan-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}