Petition Make polygamy a specific criminal offence

Bigamy is a criminal offence in the UK and it therefor makes no sense for polygamy not to be a criminal offence.

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House of Commons Briefing Paper number 05051 dated 6th January 2016.

This petition is closed This petition ran for 6 months

17 signatures

Progress of the petition towards its next target: 17 of 10,000 signatures required to get a government response

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Date closed 16 November 2016
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