A new act takes effect this year that will allow judges more power to remove victims of abuses connected with forced marriage from households and issue protection orders.

今年将会有一项新的法案生效以赋予法官更多的权力来解救那些强迫婚姻中被虐待的受害者并对其发布保护令。

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The event also aims to explain the Forced Marriage Act 2007, which offers protection to those at risk.

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Firstly, because the judge in Bangladesh was prepared to go public and emphasise the "civil wrong" which had been done against her client, and secondly, because a British High Court order served under the new Forced Marriage Act was mentioned at the Dhaka hearing.

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Forced Marriage Protection Orders were introduced in 2008 for England, Wales and Northern Ireland under the Forced Marriage (Civil Protection) Act 2007.

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