The Special Marriage Act, 1954
Every person making, signing or attesting any declaration or certificate required by or under this Act containing a statement which is false and which he either knows or believes to be false or does not believe to be true shall be guilty of the offence described in section 199 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (45 of 1860).
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Official India Code text: The Special Marriage Act, 1954, English PDF (bitstream 123456789/1387/1/A1954-43E.pdf, 377,569 bytes, sha256 8edbdc1c6178de27...) fetched directly from indiacode.nic.in (Akamai edge, DNS via dns.google) on 2026-08-03. Extracted via pdftotext 26.07 -bbox and the @nexlex/ingest inline parser. This PDF prints its amendment footnotes at body height, so sections 3 to 7 were re-extracted from the source line stream and their numbering restored (D-058). Automated parse; footnotes and amendment history excluded. Spot-verified against the PDF; full clause-level proofread pending.
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