Bill No. 19 Marriage And Divorce Bill 2009 108. Procedure on making a decision in objection proceedings (1) The court shall, on making its decision, forward the court order in the prescribed form to the District Registrar stating whether the objection has been dismissed or sustained. (2) The District Registrar shall forward the court order to the Local Spiritual Assembly. (3) On receiving a court order dismissing the objection mentioned in subsection (1), the Local Spiritual Assembly shall file the order and may without any further delay, proceed with the solemnization of the marriage. (4) Where the court issues to the Local Spiritual Assembly an order sustaining the objection, the marriage shall not be solemnized. (5) The court may, if it considers that an objection was made on insufficient grounds, direct the person who made the objection to pay such compensation or costs to a party to the marriage as it may consider fit. Void and Voidable Bahai Marriage 109. Void Bahai Marriage (1) A Bahai marriage is void where— (a) the parties are within the prohibited degrees of relationship, whether natural or legal or by marriage; (b) either party was of unsound mind at the time of the marriage; (c) either party, at the time of marriage, had a living spouse and the marriage with the living spouse was still subsisting; (d) the consent of either party to the marriage was obtained by force or fraud; or (e) the marriage was contracted in contravention of section 97(1). 46