Section 43
Penalty on married person marrying again under this Act.
The Special Marriage Act, 1954
About this Act
An Act to provide a special form of marriage in certain cases, for the registration of such and certain other marriages and for divorce.
Save as otherwise provided in
Chapter III, every person who, being at the time married, procures, a marriage of himself or herself to be
solemnized under this Act shall be deemed to have committed an offence under section 494 or section
495 of the Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860), as the case may be, and the marriage so solemnized shall be
void.