in effect the minimum age of marriage is years furthermore any person who plays a role in early or forced marriage of a minor is liable to a term of imprisonment of six months according to article of the organic law instituting the penal code the civil code contains provisions related to marriage where the challenge is based on the fact that either or both spouses were not of age at the time of the marriage such a challenge can be brought by the spouses by any interested party or by the ministere public