4. The Bill seeks to provide for the several types of marriages obtaining in Uganda and seeks to consolidate and replace all the following existing family laws— (a) the Customary Marriage (Registration) Act (Cap 248); (b) the Divorce Act (Cap 249); (c) the Hindu Marriage and Divorce Act (Cap 250); (d) the Marriage Act (Cap 251); and 5. 6. 7. 8. (e) the Marriage of Africans Act (Cap 253). This Bill deals with civil marriages, Christian marriages, customary marriages, Hindu marriages and Bahai marriages. The Bill in particular seeks to conform with the Constitution and specifically deals with the age of marriage, consent to marriage as required by article 31(3) of the Constitution, forms of marriage, solemnization of marriage, prohibited degrees of relationship for marriage, conditions for polygamy, cohabitation and its legal effect, marriage gifts, responsibility for maintenance, sexual rights, the offences of adultery and demanding the return of bride price and dowry; property rights and divorce; prescribing no fault divorce, otherwise known as irretrievable break down of marriage to apply to all forms of marriage to which the Bill relates. The Bill also deals with widow inheritance and separation. The Bill in sum gives effect to the principle in article 31(1) of the Constitution that men and women are entitled to equal rights in marriage, during marriage and at its dissolution. HON. (DR.) E. KHIDDU MAKUBUYA (MP), Attorney General and Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs.