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An Act Prohibiting the Practice of Child Marriage and Imposing Penalties for Violations Thereof

AN ACT PROHIBITING THE PRACTICE OF CHILD MARRIAGE AND IMPOSING PENALTIES FOR VIOLATIONS THEREOF

R.A. No. 11596 | 2021-12-10

Republic of the Philippines
Congress of the Philippines

Metro Manila

Seventeenth Congress
Third Regular Session
 
Begun and held in Metro Manila, on Monday, the twenty-sixth day of July, two thousand twenty-one.
 
An Act Prohibiting the Practice of Child Marriage and Imposing Penalties for Violations Thereof
 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress assembled:
 
SECTION 1. Declaration of State Policy. – Consistent with Section 13, Article II of the Philippine Constitution, the State recognizes the vital role of the youth in nation-building and promotes and protects their...