- Type
- Regulation
- Year
- २०३३ BS
- Status
- In force
- Category
- खण्ड १६: महिला, बालबालिका र संस्कृति · Volume 16: Women, Children and Culture
- Made under
- Social Practices (Reform) Act, 1976
- Official text
- Official page Official text (PDF)
Analysis drawn from official reports, court rulings and published research, each cited. Figures are being double-checked against the source documents; corrections are welcome.
What does it do?
- Apart from the friends and neighbours the Act allows, the number of close relatives invited to a feast may not exceed 100 for a wedding; 25 for chhaiti, nwaran, a birthday, pasni, chudakarma, bratabandha or budho pasni; and 50 for death rites, including pallbearers and guthi members. Porters who go with a wedding party or a 'mukh herne' visit, and people working at a feast, are not counted.ऐनबमोजिम बोलाउन पाइने इष्टमित्र र छरछिमेकीबाहेक भोजमा बोलाउने नजिकका नातेदारको सङ्ख्या विवाहमा सय जना, छैटी, न्वारान, जन्मदिन, पास्नी, चूडाकर्म, ब्रतबन्ध र बूढो पास्नीमा पच्चीस जना र पितृकार्यमा मलामी गुठियारसमेत पचास जनाभन्दा बढी हुनु हुँदैन। जन्तीसाथ जाने र मुख हेर्न जाँदा सामान बोक्ने भरिया तथा भोजमा काममा लगाइएका व्यक्तिलाई सङ्ख्यामा गनिँदैन। Nepal Law Commission Rules 3 and 17(1)-(3), PDF pp. 1, 3
- For weddings: saipata or supari may be no more than five trays of puja items, nuts, fruit, sweets and spices, with no clothes or jewellery. At a swayambar the groom may give only one gold ring of up to half a tola or one gold chain of up to two tola, the bride's side gives nothing, and no more than five people besides the priest may attend. A bride may be given no more than three sets of clothes and one set of jewellery, an overnight wedding party may be fed no more than two meals, and gold given at kanyadan may not exceed Rs 25 in value.विवाहमा साइपाटा वा सुपारी लैजाँदा पूजाको सामान, सुपारी, फलफूल, मिठाइ र मसला सबै गरी पाँच किस्तीभन्दा बढी र लुगा वा गहना लैजान हुँदैन। स्वयम्बरमा दुलहाले दुलहीलाई बढीमा आधा तोलाको सुनको औँठी एउटा वा दुई तोलासम्मको सुनको सिक्री एउटा मात्र दिन पाउँछ, दुलहीतर्फबाट केही दिन हुँदैन र पुरोहितबाहेक पाँच जनाभन्दा बढी जान हुँदैन। दुलहीलाई तीन जोरभन्दा बढी लुगा र एक सरोभन्दा बढी गहना लैजान, रात बस्ने जन्तीलाई दुई छाकभन्दा बढी खुवाउन र कन्यादानमा पच्चीस रुपैयाँभन्दा बढीको सुन दान गर्न हुँदैन। Nepal Law Commission Rules 4 to 8, PDF pp. 1-2
- After the wedding and at festivals: a 'mukh herne' visit to a married daughter may take no more than five trays and one set of clothes, no more than 20 people, and no more than Rs 10; the bride's parents may offer the groom's parents no more than Rs 1 at the dhog bhet. Gifts are capped at five trays when bringing a daughter and son-in-law home, two trays for Teej, one tray for the parents' days and one tray per brother at Bhai Tika. Only the maternal uncle's and paternal aunt's side may bring sagun at pasni, bratabandha, chudakarma and weddings.विवाहपछि छोरीबेटीको मुख हेर्न जाँदा बढीमा पाँच किस्ती र छोरीलाई एक जोर लुगा, बीस जनाभन्दा बढी मान्छे र दश रुपैयाँभन्दा बढी राखेर जान हुँदैन; समधी समधिनीको ढोग भेटमा दुलही पक्षले एक रुपैयाँभन्दा बढी राख्न हुँदैन। दुलान फर्काउँदा पाँच किस्ती, तीजमा दर पठाउँदा दुई किस्ती, आमा बाबुको मुख हेर्दा एक किस्ती र भाइटीकामा प्रत्येक दाजुभाइलाई एक किस्तीभन्दा बढी लैजान हुँदैन। पास्नी, ब्रतबन्ध, चूडाकर्म र विवाहमा मामा र फुपू पक्षबाहेक अरूले सगुन लैजान हुँदैन। Nepal Law Commission Rules 9 to 15, PDF pp. 2-3
- Within thirteen days after a death, gifts and offerings (daan dakshina), counting movable and immovable property and livestock, may not exceed Rs 2,000 in value.मृत्युपछि तेह्र दिनसम्म दान आदि गर्दा चल अचल सम्पत्ति र चौपायासमेत गरी दुई हजार रुपैयाँभन्दा बढीको दान दक्षिणा दिन हुँदैन। Nepal Law Commission Rule 16, PDF p. 3
Gaps, loopholes and improvement ideas
None documented in the official reports we have reviewed so far.
Where does it conflict with other laws?
No conflict with another law is documented in the sources we have reviewed so far.