Parsi Marriage and Divorce Act, I936
SCHEDULE I: Table of prohibited degrees
of consanguinity and affinity
(See section 3)
A man shall not marry
his-
1. Paternal
grand-father's mother.
2. Paternal
grand-mother's mother.
3. Maternal
grand-father's mother.
4. Maternal
grand-mother's mother.
5. Paternal
grand-mother.
6. Paternal
grand-father's wife.
7. Maternal
grand-mother.
8. Maternal
grand-father's wife.
9. Mother or
step-mother.
10. Father's sister or
step-sister.
11. Mother's .sister
or step-sister.
12. Sister or
step-sister.
13. Brother's daughter
or step-brother's daughter, or any direct lineal descendant of a brother or
step-brother.
14. Sister's daughter
or step-sister's daughter, or any direct lineal descendant of a sister or
step-sister.
15. Daughter or
step-daughter, or any direct lineal descendant of either.
16. Son's daughter or
step-son's daughter, or any direct lineal descendant of a son or step-son.
17. Wife of son or
step-son, or of any direct lineal descendant of a son or step-son.
18. Wife of daughter's
son or of step-daughter's son, or of any direct lineal descendant of a daughter
or stepdaughter.
19. Mother of
daughter's husband.
20. Mother of son's
wife.
21. Mother of wife's
paternal grand-father.
22. Mother of wife's
paternal grand-mother.
23. Mother of wife's
maternal grand-father.
24. Mother of wife's
maternal grand-mother.
25. Wife's paternal
grand-mother.
26. Wife's maternal
grand-mother.
27. Wife's mother or
step-mother.
28. Wife's father's
sister.
29. Wife's mother's
sister.
30. Father's brother's
wife.
31. Mother's brother's
wife.
32. Brother's son's
wife.
33. Sister's son's
wife.
A woman shall not
marry her-
1. Paternal
grand-father's father.
2. Paternal
grand-mother's father.
3. Maternal
grand-father's father.
4. Maternal
grand-mother's father.
5. Paternal
grand-father.
6. Paternal
grand-mother's husband.
7. Maternal
grand-father.
8. Maternal
grand-mother's husband.
9. Father or
step-father.
10. Father's brother
or step-brother.
1l. Mother's brother
or step-brother.
12. Brother or
step-brother.
13. Brother's son or
step-.brother's son, or any direct lineal descendant of a brother or
step-brother.
14. Sister's son or
step-sister's son, or any direct lineal descendant of sister or step-sister.
15. Son, or step-son,
or any direct lineal descendant of either.
16. Daughter's son or
step-daughter's son, or any direct lineal descendant of a daughter or
step-daughter.
17. Husband of
daughter or of step-daughter, or of any direct lineal descendant of a daughter
or step-daughter.
18. Husband of son's
daughter or of step-son's daughter, or of any direct lineal descendant of a son
or step-son.
19. Father of
daughter's husband.
20. Father of son's
wife.
21. Father of
husband's paternal grand-father.
22. Father of
husband's paternal grand-mother.
23. Father of
husband's maternal grand-father.
24. Father of
husband's maternal grand-mother.
25. Husband's paternal
grand-father.
26. Husband's maternal
grand-father.
27. Husband's father
or step-father.
28. Brother of
husband's father.
29. Brother of
husband's mother.
30. Husband's brother'
son, or his direct lineal descendant.
31. Husband's sister's
son, or his direct lineal descendant.
32. Brother's
daughter's husband.
33. Sister's
daughter's husband.
NOTE- In the above table the
words "brother" and "sister" denote brother and sister of
the whole as well as half blood . Relationship by step means relationship by
marriages.