GK
INDIAN HISTORY
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1927
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Child Marriage Restraint Act was a legislative act passed on 28 September 1929. The act fixed the marriageable age for girls at 14 years and 18 years for boys. It is popularly known as the Sharda Act after its sponsor, Harbilas Sarda.
Detailed explanation-2: -(1) This Act may be called the Child Marriage Restraint Act, 1 [1929]. [(2) It extends to the whole of India 3 [except the State of Jammu and Kashmir]; and it applies also to all citizens of India without and beyond India.] (3) It shall come into force on the 1st day of April, 1930.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Sharda Act 1929, also known as THE CHILD MARRIAGE RESTRAINT ACT, 1929, was approved in the Imperial Legislative Council of India on September 28, 1929, under the viceroyalty of Lord Irwin.