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Uttarakhand has become the first state of the independent India to implement much-debated Uniform Civil Code (UCC). Amid several changes, the UCC has imposed certain restrictions on specific relationships in the state. The law emphasise that people will not be able to get into such restricted relationships until they have a permission from religious leaders.

The UCC specified that there are a total of 74 restricted relationships, 37 each for men and women. The law stated that the individuals cannot marry or even practice live-in relationship in the mentioned restricted relationships. The law clarifies that the couple will need to take permission from the religious leader and the registrar if they are in “degrees of prohibited relationship”

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However, it added that the registrar is entitled to cancel any proposal if they find that the relationship is against public morality or their customs. Apart from this, the couple will have to submit “proof of permissibility of marriage if they are within the degrees of prohibited relationship” even though the registration sought pertains to live-in relationships.

Section 3 of the UCC Act defines the “degrees of prohibited relationships”, stating that a man any person mentioned in List 1 of Schedule 1 and a woman and any person mentioned in List 2 of the same schedule falls under the degrees of prohibited relationship.

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The act clearly defines that a man in the state and his first cousin or daughter of his maternal and paternal uncle/aunt are not allowed to be in relationship. In the similar manner, a woman and her first cousin from both the sides of her family will not be allowed to be in relationship.

Apart from this, a woman will only be able to be marry her relatives like her great-grandfather, step-great-grandfather, daughter’s son’s daughter’s husband, nephew, or uncle, with permission from the religious leader and registrar.