Suriname

TITLE XII CRIMES AGAINST THE CIVIL STATE

Conceal any impediment to marriage

Article 289

The unmarried person who enters into a marriage, deliberately withholding that from the other party there is any legal impediment to this, if on the basis of that impediment, the marriage is withdrawn irrevocable judgment is annulled, punishable by imprisonment not exceeding four years and a fine of the fourth category, or with one of the two penalties

Title XVII offences against personal freedoma

Article 334. Trafficking

1. Guilty of trafficking with imprisonment not exceeding nine years and fine of the fifth category, or punished with either penalties:

1 °. Any person who by force, violence or other act or threat of violence or other act, by extortion, fraud, deception or by abuse of authority arising from the actual ratios, by abuse of a position of vulnerability or the giving or receiving payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person who control over this other person recruits, transports, transfers, accommodates or shelters with the intention of exploiting that other person or removing his or her organs;

2 °. the person who recruits, transports, transfers, accommodates or shelters with intention of exploiting that other person or removing his or her organs, while that person has not yet reached the age of eighteen years;

3 °. the person who recruits another, carry or abducting with intent that person in bring a different country are required to make themselves available to perform sexual acts with or for a third party for payment;

4 °. the person who compels another one of those listed under 1, or moves to make themselves available to perform work or services or bodies to make available or under the under 1 above circumstances undertake any act that the person knows or reasonably assume that the other person thus makes available to the performing work or services or their organs available;

5 °. the one who leads another to make themselves available to perform sexual acts with or for a third party for payment or their bodies against to make payment available, or in respect of another act single undertake, which that person knows or should reasonably suspect that the other will therefore make available to perform such acts or Bodies fee makes available, while other age eighteen s has not yet reached;

6 °. willfully profits from the exploitation of another person;

7 °. the one that pulls out the removal of organs deliberately favor of another, while that person knows or should reasonably suspect that the organs under the under 1 provided conditions are removed;

8 °. willfully profits from the sexual acts of another person with or for a third party for remuneration or the removal of his organs for remuneration, when that person has not yet reached the age of eighteen years; 130

9 °. the person who compels another one of those listed under 1, or moves those to benefit from the proceeds of his sexual acts with or for a third party or of the removal of his organs.

2. Exploitation shall include at least the exploitation of another person in prostitution, other forms of sexual exploitation, forced labor or services, slavery or slavery or similar servitude.
3. The guilty shall be punished with imprisonment not exceeding twelve years fine of the fifth category, either one of the two punishments if:

1 °. the facts described in paragraph 1, committed by two or more persons;

2 °. the person in respect of whom committed the offenses described in paragraph 1, age of sixteen has not yet reached.

4. The offenses described in paragraph 1, committed by two or more persons under the circumstance referred to in paragraph 3 under 2, be punished with imprisonment of exceeding fifteen years and a fine of the fifth category, either one of the two penalties.
5. If one of the results in serious bodily injury offenses defined in paragraph 1 or its danger is to be feared another may prison sentence of up eighteen years and a fine of the fifth category, either one of the two penalties are imposed.
6. If one of the offenses described in paragraph 1 results in death, can imprisonment not exceeding twenty-four years and a fine of the fifth category, either imposed by one of the two penalties.

Title XXVIII Official Crimes

Civil servant in case of unauthorized marriage

Article 442

1. The registrar of births, deaths and marriages who intentionally cooperates with someone’s marriage, whereby it enters into a double marriage, is punished with imprisonment not exceeding six years and a fine of the fifth category, either with one of the two penalties.

2. The registrar of births, deaths and marriages who intentionally cooperates with someone’s marriage, against which there is any other legal impediment, is punishable by imprisonment not exceeding two years and a fine of the fourth category, either with either penalty.

Surinam Penal Code 2012 – Dutch (PDF)

Article 31

1. In order to enter into a marriage, a man and a woman must have reached the age of eighteen.
2. The Minister of Justice may, for compelling reasons, grant an exemption from the requirement referred to in paragraph 1.

Article 35

1. A minor may not enter into a marriage without the consent of his parents.

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Article 79

The wife, during the marriage, follows the state of her husband.

Article 81

Free consent of the future spouses becomes the essence of marriage necessary.

Article 82

A young man, the full age of seventeen, and a young daughter, the full one having reached the age of fifteen years, must not enter into marriage.

The President may, however, for weighty reasons, grant this prohibition lift dispensation

Article 88

1. To enter into a marriage, a minor requires the consent of his parents, insofar as they are in civil relations with him and can explain their will.

2. A minor, who is under guardianship, also needs to enter into a marriage the consent of the guardian.

3. In the event of a marriage with the guardian, or with one of his legal relatives line, the permission of the supervising guardian is also required.

Article 89

1. By judicial decision, at the request of the minor, with deviation from the in Article 88 provided, leave to enter into a marriage may be granted.

2. Leave in accordance with the previous paragraph can only be granted: a. in cases where neither parent has parental authority or custody of the is a minor; b. in other cases, when only one required consent is missing

Article 92 

A minor who has reached the age of eighteen can – even without the cooperation of his legal representative, and without prejudice to his authority to the submitting a request, as referred to in Article 89 – in writing the intervention of the subdistrict court of his place of residence, when the requirement under Article 88 consent is lacking in whole or in part

Article 94 

1. If the parents are not in Suriname, the President can accept a minor who has reached the age of eighteen, exemption from the requirement under Article 88 grant permissions.

2. Equal exemption can, if one of the parents is not in Suriname, by the President, insofar as the parent who is outside Suriname regarding

Article 114

Any of the parents who have civil relations with one of the parties can do it interrupt marriage in the following cases:

1 °. When their child, who is still a minor, does not obtain the required consent;

2 ° Expired.

3 °. When one of the parties, out of a lack of mental faculties, under receivership, or the receivers have been requested on that basis and a decision has not yet been taken on that request;

4 °. When either party does not have the requirements to, in accordance with the provisions of the first section of this title, to be able to enter into a marriage;

5 °. When the required marriage announcement has not taken place;

6 °. When either party is due to wastefulness, habit of alcoholism or weakness of assets has been placed in receivership, and the proposed marriage apparently it cause their child’s misfortune.

If someone other than the father or mother exercises custody of the child, also has the guardian or supervising guardian, where he replaces the guardian, the same authority.

The marriage cannot be interrupted on the ground mentioned in the first paragraph under 1 °:

a. if, by way of judicial decision, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 88, the minor leave to enter into marriage has been granted;

b. when the lack of consent has been given by a person, pursuant to article 93, paragraph 3 or 4, decision of the subdistrict court has been replaced;

c. when the minor has been granted exemption under the provisions of Article 94.

Article 115

In the absence of both parents, the grandparents and the guardian are authorized to initiate the marriage to be interrupted in the cases mentioned under Nos. 3, 4, 5 and 7 of the preceding article.

Cancelled.

Article 116

In the absence of grandparents, the brothers, sisters, uncles and mothers, as well as the curator and supervisory curator, an intended marriage is interrupted in the cases, in article 114 first paragraph, with the exception of the provisions under 1

Article 118 

The public prosecutor is obliged to stop a proposed marriage, in such cases included with Articles 80 to 87.

The public prosecutor has jurisdiction to supervise the marriage of a person a minor, if the interests of that minor preclude entering into a marriage resistance; the interest that the other party has in the marriage is also taken into account taken into account.

The Public Prosecution Service has equal competence with regard to a minor, on whom the secondment order has been imposed

Article 140

Legality a marriage, without the free consent of both spouses, or also entered into by either of them, can only be contradicted by the spouses, or by the one of them whose consent has not been free.

When error has taken place in the person to whom one is married, the legality can be disputed only by the one of the spouses who has been led astray.

In all the cases occurring in this article, one is not in the claim for annulment admissible, when there is a continued cohabitation during the period of three months has taken place since the husband obtained his complete liberty, or the error discovered by him

Article 142

If a marriage has been entered into by a person, which is required by article 82 had not reached old age, annulment could be sought either by that spouse, or by the public prosecutor.

However, the legality of the marriage cannot be disputed:

1 °. When, on the day of the claim for annulment, the spouse or spouses have reached the required old age;

2 °. When the woman, not having reached the required old age, before the day of the legal claim is pregnant

Article 144

When a marriage has been entered into contrary to the provisions regarding the requirement of consent from parents, guardian or supervising guardian can be claimed for annulment by him whose consent has not been obtained.

The legal action for annulment can be made by the relatives whose consent was required, not to be commenced if the marriage was expressly or by them has been tacitly approved, or when six months have elapsed without objection on their part since the time of their acquaintance with the marriage.

With regard to marriages entered into in a foreign land, this knowledge is not assumed, as long as the spouses have defaulted to the marriage certificate execution, in accordance with the requirements of Article 137, in the public records