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Chapter 3 Marriage Registration

Article 12 Couples who apply for marriage registration shall provide the marriage registration authorities with certificates required by the Method in an honest manner and shall not conceal any truth or facts.

Marriage registration authorities, when handling application for marriage registration, shall not require applicants to produce certificates other than those required by the Method.

Article 13 Couples who apply for marriage registration shall go in person to the marriage registration authorities at the place of permanent residence of either party and submit the following certificates:

1. Hukou;

2. Identity card;

3. Marital Status Certificate issued by their employer, villagers' or residents' committee;

4. Three copies of a photo of the couple.

If either or both parties have been divorced, a divorce certificate shall be submitted when applying for marriage registration.

 

Where premarital health examination is required, couples applying for marriage registration shall, in accordance with the Method of Shanxi Province for Implementing the Law on Protection of Health of Mother and Infant of the People's Republic of China, submit a premarital health examination certificate or medical certificate to the marriage registration authorities.

 

Couples with either or both parties living temporarily in this province and who want to apply for marriage registration in this province shall submit their temporary Hukou, marital status certificates issued by their former employer or villagers' or residents' committee and a certificate of entrustment issued by the marriage registration authorities at localities where their permanent residence is registered.

 

For couples whose permanent residences are both registered outside this province, no marriage registration shall be granted in principle. If parents of one party or both parties live in this jurisdiction, the couple can apply for marriage registration to local marriage registration authorities with their parents' Hukou and a certificate issued by the parents' employer or villagers'/residents' committee showing their relationship.

Article 14 Marital status certificates of employees of government agencies, enterprises, institutions and social groups shall be issued by the personnel or labor department of their employer. That of rural residents, urban residents, employees of foreign-invested enterprises and private companies shall be issued by the villagers' or residents' committee at their permanent residence. If the couple applies for marriage registration outside their permanent residence, the marital status certificate shall bear a seal of the marriage registration authorities at their permanent residence.

The marital status certificate shall give true information about the holder such as date of birth and marital status, i.e., single, divorced or widowed.

Article 15 The marriage registration body shall examine the marriage application and grant registration and issue a Marriage Certificate to those meeting the conditions for marriage. The parties concerned shall become husband and wife upon obtaining the Marriage Certificate.

Article 16 Those applying for remarriage shall be handled in the same procedures as marriage.

The marriage registration body shall, after granting marriage registration to remarried couples, nullify their divorce certificate, verdict or reconciliation agreement; Those applying for re-marriage after divorce shall indicate the time of the present marriage and the names of both parties with a seal of the marriage registration body on their divorce certificates, ruling or agreement.

Article 17 No organizations or individuals shall be allowed to interfere with other people's freedom of marriage or obstruct marriage registration management. Those who fail to obtain a certificate due to intervention by their employer, villagers' or residents' committee or others but who are found to indeed meet the requirements for marriage registration shall be granted registration.

Article 18 Registration shall not be granted under any one of the following circumstances:

1. The applicants are not of legal age for marriage (22 for men and 20 for women);

2. Their marriage is not a result of voluntary choice;

3. Either party has already had a spouse;

4. Both parties are directly related in bloodline or collaterally related in bloodline within three generations;

5. Either party has a disease that, according to law, would prevent them from getting married at all or before the disease is cured.