1929, is now being updated,” cabinet secretary Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan told reporters at a press briefing after the meeting. “Marriage of a girl below 18 and a boy below 21 will be considered as an offence,” he said, adding that an offender under existing law is being punished with a maximum of one-month jail and Tk 10,000 in fine. An executive magistrate will be able to conduct trial under the law and the matter of stopping a child marriage goes under the jurisdiction of family court. As proposed, organisers of such marriages, for example parents, will also come under legal actions, but female offenders will not be jailed other than paying fines for their offences. Age of boys and girls will be determined through birth certificates, national ID cards, passports and SSC certificates. A child marriage prevention committee will also be formed at various tiers with state officials, NGO officials, public representatives and civil-society members. The cabinet also approved in principal the draft of Customs Bill 2014 with a proposal to execute the law from 2016. “Full implementation of the proposed law will begin on July 1, 2016, since there’s a need for improving necessary infrastructures and imparting training to the stakeholders concerned to this end.” Bhuiyan said the bill was placed in the cabinet meeting, duly consulted. “The existing law had been enacted in 1969 and it was amended several times.” “Finance ministry has come up with the proposal updating clauses of the previous law to make it of international standards,” he mentioned. The proposed law, drafted in Bangla, aims at making revenue management related to customs more transparent, modern, time-befitting, business and investment-friendly, incorporating risk management and reflecting provisions of trade facilitation agreement of World Trade Organisation. Bhuiyan said, “Bangladesh has signed the trade facilitation agreement. This will be reflected through the new law.” The existing law has some inconsistencies over import and export of goods declaration, but the proposed law has made the matters easy. The meeting also endorsed a proposal to introduce one percent surcharge on calls and other usage of mobile phones. “The amount collected from such surcharge will be spent in health and education sectors.” “Anybody spending Tk 200 per month for mobile phone calls will have to pay Tk 2 per month as surcharge, which will be automatically deducted by phone operators concerned,” he said, adding that the government will earn Tk 140 crore after enactment of the law. The move will come into effect after a gazette notification.
Tuesday, September 16, 2014
Cabinet approves child marriage prevention bill:Daily Sun
1929, is now being updated,” cabinet secretary Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan told reporters at a press briefing after the meeting. “Marriage of a girl below 18 and a boy below 21 will be considered as an offence,” he said, adding that an offender under existing law is being punished with a maximum of one-month jail and Tk 10,000 in fine. An executive magistrate will be able to conduct trial under the law and the matter of stopping a child marriage goes under the jurisdiction of family court. As proposed, organisers of such marriages, for example parents, will also come under legal actions, but female offenders will not be jailed other than paying fines for their offences. Age of boys and girls will be determined through birth certificates, national ID cards, passports and SSC certificates. A child marriage prevention committee will also be formed at various tiers with state officials, NGO officials, public representatives and civil-society members. The cabinet also approved in principal the draft of Customs Bill 2014 with a proposal to execute the law from 2016. “Full implementation of the proposed law will begin on July 1, 2016, since there’s a need for improving necessary infrastructures and imparting training to the stakeholders concerned to this end.” Bhuiyan said the bill was placed in the cabinet meeting, duly consulted. “The existing law had been enacted in 1969 and it was amended several times.” “Finance ministry has come up with the proposal updating clauses of the previous law to make it of international standards,” he mentioned. The proposed law, drafted in Bangla, aims at making revenue management related to customs more transparent, modern, time-befitting, business and investment-friendly, incorporating risk management and reflecting provisions of trade facilitation agreement of World Trade Organisation. Bhuiyan said, “Bangladesh has signed the trade facilitation agreement. This will be reflected through the new law.” The existing law has some inconsistencies over import and export of goods declaration, but the proposed law has made the matters easy. The meeting also endorsed a proposal to introduce one percent surcharge on calls and other usage of mobile phones. “The amount collected from such surcharge will be spent in health and education sectors.” “Anybody spending Tk 200 per month for mobile phone calls will have to pay Tk 2 per month as surcharge, which will be automatically deducted by phone operators concerned,” he said, adding that the government will earn Tk 140 crore after enactment of the law. The move will come into effect after a gazette notification.
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