UCC Bill tabled in Gujarat Assembly, proposes common framework for marriage, succession and live-in ties

The Gujarat authorities connected Tuesday (March 24, 2026) tabled the Gujarat Uniform Civil Code (UCC) Bill, 2026 successful the Legislative Assembly, proposing a communal ineligible model to govern marriage, divorce, succession, and live-in relationships irrespective of religion.

The Bill was tabled by Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel a week aft a State-appointed sheet submitted its last study connected implementation of the UCC.

If the Bill is cleared, Gujarat volition go the 2nd State successful the state aft Uttarakhand to walk a UCC Bill. Uttarakhand successful February 2024 passed a Uniform Civil Code (UCC) Bill.

Titled the 'Gujarat Uniform Civil Code, 2026', the projected instrumentality volition widen to the full State and besides use to residents of Gujarat surviving extracurricular its territorial limits.

But it volition not use to members of Scheduled Tribes and definite groups whose customary rights are protected nether the Constitution. The Bill aims to make a azygous ineligible framework, arsenic per its "Objects and Reasons" statement.

Among different things, it provides for registration of live-in relationships, arsenic good arsenic their termination done a ceremonial declaration. The Bill besides prohibits bigamy. A matrimony volition beryllium considered valid nether the Code lone if neither enactment has a surviving spouse astatine the clip of marriage, it says.