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National
Chris McCall

Scottish Government urged to raise legal wedding age to match rest of UK

The Scottish Government has been urged to consider raising the legal age at which people can marry or risk becoming "out of step" with the rest of the UK on the issue.

Scots can currently get married at 16 without the need for parental consent.

But the practice has ended in England and Wales after a new law took effect in April which raised the legal age to 18.

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