{"id":111391,"date":"1999-03-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1999-03-08T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/need-to-reform-the-christian-personal-laws-and-bring-related-bills-in-on-9-march-1999"},"modified":"2018-01-21T03:20:12","modified_gmt":"2018-01-20T21:50:12","slug":"need-to-reform-the-christian-personal-laws-and-bring-related-bills-in-on-9-march-1999","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/need-to-reform-the-christian-personal-laws-and-bring-related-bills-in-on-9-march-1999","title":{"rendered":"Need To Reform The Christian Personal Laws And Bring Related Bills In &#8230; on 9 March, 1999"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Lok Sabha Debates<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Need To Reform The Christian Personal Laws And Bring Related Bills In &#8230; on 9 March, 1999<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>     Title: Need to reform the Christian  Personal Laws and bring related bills in the current session of Parilament.\u00a0  <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"marker_ref\" href=\"\/search\/?formInput=DR.%20BEATRIX%20D%27SOUZA%20\">DR. BEATRIX D&#8217;SOUZA <\/a>(<a class=\"marker_ref\" href=\"\/search\/?formInput=NOMINATED\">NOMINATED<\/a>): I would like to draw the attention of the  Government to proposals made by a consensus of the Christian people of India,  through the Christian Churches and Church-related organizations and recommended  by the National Minorities Commission, to reform and update the Christian  Personal Law, pertaining to four specific Bills &#8212; the Christian Marriage Bill,  1997, the Christian Divorce Bill, 1997, the Christian Succession Amendment Bill,  1994 and the Christian Adoption and Maintenance Bill, 1997.\n<\/p>\n<p>Some of the provisions of the archaic, century-old Christian Marriage Act,  1872 and the Indian Divorce Act, 1869, enacted by the British have been struck  down by the Supreme Court and various High Courts as being discriminatory,  particularly against women. Also, the said Acts do not meet the requirements of  the social realities that exist today. The provisions of the Indian Succession  Act, 1925 seem to be largely discriminatory against the Christian community,  particularly against women. A void was also seen in the Law relating to adoption  and maintenance.\n<\/p>\n<p>These four Bills were presented to the Government in 1994 and again in 1997.  Since the climate for the enactment of a Uniform Civil Code may never be  favourable, the Government should welcome the initiative of a minority community  to update their Personal Law. The Christian Church is not presenting new Bills  for legislation but assisting Government to make them more meaningful and  effective for the Christian community in India.\n<\/p>\n<p>I, therefore, request that the Government introduce these four Bills in the  current Session of Parliament.\n<\/p>\n<p>______ <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lok Sabha Debates Need To Reform The Christian Personal Laws And Bring Related Bills In &#8230; on 9 March, 1999 Title: Need to reform the Christian Personal Laws and bring related bills in the current session of Parilament.\u00a0 DR. BEATRIX D&#8217;SOUZA (NOMINATED): I would like to draw the attention of the Government to proposals made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-judgements"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Need To Reform The Christian Personal Laws And Bring Related Bills In ... on 9 March, 1999 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; High Court | Legal India<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/need-to-reform-the-christian-personal-laws-and-bring-related-bills-in-on-9-march-1999\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Need To Reform The Christian Personal Laws And Bring Related Bills In ... on 9 March, 1999 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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