Parsi Marriage and Divorce Act, I936
3. Requisites to validity of Parsi marriages
6 [(1)] No marriage
shall be valid if-
(a) the contracting parties are related to
each other in any of the degrees of consanguinity or affinity set forth in
Schedule I; or
(b) such marriage is not solemnized according
to the Parsi form of ceremony called "Ashirvad" by a priest in the
presence of two Parsi witnesses other than such priest; or
7 [(c) in the case of any Parsi (whether such
Parsi has changed his or her religion or domicile or not) who, if a male, has
not completed twenty-one years of age, and if a female, has not completed
eighteen years of age.]
8 [(2) Notwithstanding
that a marriage is invalid under any of the provisions of sub-section (1), any
child of such marriage who would have been legitimate if the marriage had been
valid, shall be legitimate.]