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Marriage and Civil Partnership (Minimum Age) Bill [HL]

A Bill to raise the minimum age of consent to marriage or civil partnership to eighteen; create an offence of causing a person under the age of eighteen to enter into a marriage or civil partnership; and for connected purposes.

In progress Current stage: 3rd reading (Lords)

The story so farThe Marriage and Civil Partnership (Minimum Age) Bill was introduced in the House of Lords on 25 May 2016 by Baroness Tonge (Independent Liberal Democrat). It is now at third reading in the House of Lords. Third reading is the final vote in this chamber; if the bill passes, it moves to the other House.

Progress through Parliament

  1. 1st reading Lords 25 May 2016
  2. 2nd reading Lords 21 Oct 2016
  3. Order of Commitment discharged Lords 13 Dec 2016
  4. 3rd reading Lords 20 Dec 2016

Source: the official bill page. Last updated 17 Mar 2017.