Section 39 Marriage Act

Section 39 of the Marriage Act 1914 is about Marriage with a person previously married. It provides as follows:

Whoever, being unmarried, goes through the ceremony of marriage under this Act with a person whom he or she knows to be married to another person, shall be liable to imprisonment for five years.

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