[Supplements to marriage law]

[Text of the "Xinjiang Uygur Region's additional regulations governing the enforcement of the marriage law of the People's Republic of China" promulgated December 14 at the Xinjiang Uygur Regional People's Congress] [Text] On December 14, 1980, the 3rd Session of the 5th Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Regional Congress adopted the regulations. Article 1: These regulations are enacted in accordance with article 36 of the Marriage Law of the People's Republic of China; Article 2: As regards marriage ages, a man under 20 shall not get married, nor shall a woman under 18 get married; Article 3: According to the Marriage Law of the People's Republic of China, no one shall marry a collateral relative within the 3rd degreee of relationship; Article 4: A widow shall be left free to remarry, and no one shall be allowed to intervene in it on any pretext; Article 5: A mercenary marriage shall be prohibited, and no one shall be allowed to extort property in a marriage; Article 6: A legal procedure shall be required for a marriage and a divorce, and the way of substantiating a divorce by a notice in verbal or written form sent from 1 party to the other shall be prohibited; Article 7: Religion shall not be allowed to intervene in a marriage or family, nor shall a religious rite be allowed to replace a marriage registration; Article 8: Men and women under the prescribed marriage ages shall be prohibited from becoming engaged; Article 9: Planned parenthodd shall not be advocated among national minorities, and whether or not to practice family planning shall be at their own discretion; Article 10: These regulations shall only apply to various minority nationalities in this region; Article 11: Subject to the approval of the Standing Committee of the regional People's Congress, people's congresses at autonomous prefectures and counties or the congresses' standing committees shall be allowed to enact some modifications or additional regulations in light of actual conditions in marriages and families among local minorities and in accordance with the principles of the Marriage Law of the People's Republic of China and these regulations; Article 12: Like the Marriage Law of the People's Republic of China, these regulations shall come into force beginning on January 1, 1981.