(d) one party or both parties to the marriage, where both parties to the marriage are children; or (e) a third party, in consultation with an appropriate authority, in any of the circumstances specified in paragraphs (a) to (d). (2) A court shall, on petition of a child, adult person or third party referred to in subsection (1), dissolve/annul the marriage that was contracted before the commencement of the law. (3) The Chief Justice (state competent authority) shall prescribe rules for the procedures and processes relating to the dissolution/annulment of a voidable child marriage. (These rules and procedures may be prescribed in the law itself) 20. Property and citizenship arising from prohibited marriage or dissolved marriage (1) From the commencement of the law, where a marriage contracted in contravention of section 17 is dissolved/annulled as specified in section 19 – (a) any property acquired by either party during the subsistence of the marriage, except property that was inherited or brought into such a marriage, shall be deemed to have been lawfully acquired by both parties to such a marriage and shall be distributed equally between them, as prescribed; and (b) any citizenship rights that have accrued or due to accrue to any party of such a marriage, as an entitlement arising from such a marriage, shall be deemed to have been lawfully acquired by, and accruing to, that party. (2) Any property that was inherited, or property that was brought into the marriage, by a child, shall be the property of that child Page 51 of 78

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