Current status: Answered by Siobhian Brown on 19 November 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what progress has been made with its consultation regarding the legal age of marriage.
We continue to make progress on this consultation. As well as the minimum age of marriage and civil partnership, it will cover a wide range of areas: extending simplified divorce and dissolution procedures; qualifying requirements for religious and belief bodies when they solemnise marriage or register civil partnership; a Scottish Law Commission report on cohabitant's rights following separation; and some points arising on financial provision when one cohabitant dies.
We are also preparing impact assessments in relation to this consultation. We are planning to issue it within the next few months.