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PREAMBLE     [go to this PREAMBLE]
... Reaffirming that all States, including those which have or assume responsibility for the administration of Non-Self-Governing and Trust Territories until their achievement of independence, should take all appropriate measures with a view to abolishing such customs, ancient laws and practices by ensuring, inter alia, complete freedom in the choice of a spouse, eliminating completely child marriages and the betrothal of young girls before the age of puberty, establishing appropriate penalties where necessary and establishing a civil or other register in which all marriages will be recorded, ...


ARTICLE-3     [go to this ARTICLE]
... All marriages shall be registered in an appropriate official register by the competent authority. ...
... All marriages shall be registered in an appropriate official register by the competent authority. ...