A union between two persons of opposite sex, contracted according to the applicable law, bringing certain mutual rights and responsibilities, defined by legislation and customs.
", "uwagi": "The data on marriages refers to marriages contracted according to lawful rules at the civil status offices — the Law on Civil Status Acts from November 28, 2014 (Journal of Laws 2014 No.1741) with later amendments. The rules of the family law are regulated by the Act from February 25, 1964 — Family and Tutelary Code (Journal of Laws 1964 No. 9, item 59) with later amendments.
Since 1999 — according to the Act from July 24, 1998 — the Family and Tutelary Code, the Civil Procedure Code, the Law on Civil Status Acts, the Act on Relation of the State to the Catholic Church in the Republic of Poland and the other selected acts (Journal of Laws No. 117, item 757) — in the local civil status offices in Poland are registered all marriages including those based on the internal law of the Churches or the Religious Associations.
Marriages contracted on the basis of canonic law subordinate the civil Polish laws and result in the same civil and law consequences as marriages contracted in the local civil status offices.
In population and housing censuses, marital status of persons is established on the basis of voluntary declarations. To the census of 1988, only actual marital status was registered, not civil law, since the census of 2002 collected information about both. Census results are characterized both compounds formal-legal and informal.
\n\tData on marriages presented in territorial division - since 1995 - include all marriages in which, for one of the spouses (man or woman) Poland was the place of permanent residence prior to contracting the marriage. The voivodship being the place of residence of the husband was assumed as the criterion of territorial division into voivodships (poviats, urban and rural areas), or, if the husband resided abroad, the voivodship of residence of the wife. Information on the newly contracted marriages, for which both spouses resided permanently abroad before contracting their marriage (temporary reside in Poland, do not have permanent residence card) are collected and disseminated, but those marriages are not included into the total number of marriages.
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